Tag: faith
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Audience
Verse strips me, cajoles my naked limbs Bends, almost trips me, checks my hole for arms Checks my arm for holes; heroin entrances. Exits everywhere each more blissfully silencing Long and pointless poem ends with death, final phlegmonous breath agonised Reading my body’s banded runes as the book of the man If human eyes ere…
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The sun rising as it has not in some time
Sunrise glorious, more than recent times Sunrise’s old but recently seen beauty, tenfold Even a day’s break steals all gold’s glimmering Fools old and young ascribing to arts limn you As Apollo limb you that you might walk far afield C thy coastal passage sprouting thyrsus awield Vaster than recalled Tutelary star. Sunrise as has…
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Jibes
Lambent, to win by wits keen Words measured and massed Of cruder sentiments shorn Long pruning, its trained growing Measured not by inch but metre Not unlike a poem read by a ruler Or a compass holder, its legspan Finds the hidden meaning Despite ignoring the light-pouring outpouring, beaming Like a pearl’s underside only God…
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Craft
I – Old But Recent Craft I make pollicitations to cunning bards past, Place of old poets thy Parnassian pasts immortal Your past-prime virtues now victuals to vexers who make you victims of gaunt learning or love-chagrinning solar sojourns. In dissecting I seek to neither venerate nor eviscerate, My lancet taps ichor and flowing essential…
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Lonely Star
When I’m lonely I go most boldly Toward the furthest star O’er hill and dale through sleet and hail To where I hope you are. Upon yonder hill And nearer still To that cold and lonely star I spy your form upon a rock Where on misty morn a bird might cock Of a sudden…
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