Tag: gothic
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Starry Baroness
When star-mottled night descends like a child robbing Shrike, When senses tighten tyrant’s purselike Wetting vellum, the Inspirant’s burst dyke After an hour’s imbibing The inviting vessel relayed forth and back like an old relation’s Bible Until our bottled lightning reached its salival final gulp Mimed having had enough before demanding her cup filled A…
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Union of profound antipodes
Rather than reject my acid, something tacit forms ‘twixt two sides Puce-eyed I’m that high, we discussed life beneath Orion’s light We were thieves who took from day by extending night Our delight made moments monthlong Three days if we had been in a cave they would praise us I shield my fielding amethysts, your…
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Courting a sorceress
I feel a bastard’s rejection Masterless, my knifed cask asked lacking direction My protected heart electively plated in hard, gnarled, scarred armour Slept alarmless corset-tight confined inside a casket of blasted firestone The pyrearm force of her attention retired to legacy my defences She cast upon that vast deep a dark-kin shadow, she a Pegasus…
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Meeting but not
The poetry is not within the midden of the city In the middle of it, sitting, swill sifting for slim pittance. The poetry is in the pity The rhyme is the affair, but thinly filmed. The giving will. I dream in ropes, of gibbet hills. Of rent doublets, gibbous appendages Jealous husbands driven around the…
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A quiet word between gentlemen
When in Siamese proximity residing, much by necessity is implied And all requires prior design. At wan light time, whitewashed, swannish With haughty day’s honest fire quashed The first Boche-shell burst of uncurtained eternity; far Mars a fox hanged. Labourers dusty return hungry from thankless days parading oxgangs Maintaining mortarless gates, sustaining estate selvedges Surveying…
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