Tag: love
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Undying Climes
Undying lands grander than Atlantis, full of familiar hands banded again Reforged oaths, all strewn oats sewn to zenith Motes animate light in flight, delighting alongside buoyant satellites winds shake free from dandelions Gardeners in austere gabardines with swan wings sweeping aft peacock-equal Spending dreamful epochs raking rocks into straight lines before God’s throne and…
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Cleaning the Church
Chapelein in apple green cleaning the chapel Vestibules signalling foliate spring festival A capful of rum in pineapple punch he took at luncheon, unburdening him of learned trenchancy Lending him confidence enough to pen off a sentence, he has never been much for entrances Preferring exits Entranced by orders and oaths of office, saint’s bones…
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Prayer to Love
Now I write of things pleasant, cleanse my palette of death’s mention An ode to love tender and long lasting, varied and sensual, mysterious Tension of a life spent in willing company, the will subdued but the heart freed Of its foremost need, that deed once signed marks a love that should shine eternal A…
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Chasing Iseult
Fish to a gull My every plan she is the result She engulfs me Only her love can free me Thoughts of her like an orchestral theme follow me Even in dreams she is queen thereof. An insult to call Iseult Isolde Mark knows of her affairs but will not dissolve the marriage Nor absolve…
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Redress
Got a fourfold vision, assailed without break I sail without break, I am the surface breaker You are fast, the better rapier handler I have been handled, kneeling panting Offer me a hand if first I will kiss your sandal My mail breaker mistakes you for Dracula, stakes you I walk up to the woman…
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Love bird
Are you a sweet song thrush Or a magpie here for the shine in my eye Are you a Wren in the brush Moorhen in the brook, hawk in the sky You seem to parrot me A paltry parody of prosody No primer to be a prodigy Might well be a wood pigeon Cut down…
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Saucier 2
I know I dropped ball, one set of feet fall In the corridors between my empty halls Like silver beams scaffolding between Kabbalah balls I know I played my part in the closing of her heart Days dart by as if bound for bullseye, I’m playing Guitar Hero Outside Rome’s burning, I am Nero Short…
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Saucier
She is riveting, has me exhausted Señora doing sauce, the steaming faucet rivering she elbows off See you’re doing sauce, my voice carries across the room I’m not far behind, my hands on her ass like frost on grass Under the glass lid of the pan something class is in the planning She slaps my…
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Players Please
Skeleton finger hands limbering up above piano keys Attained by degrees these masteries Black and white in rank and file she prods songs from chess pieces Keratin traces every face along its length, rousing scales She plays one handed Her profiled eye like a sunfish side winks, old romantic Head nodding in drugged emphasis Another…
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Yellow Rose
She grows that garden rose Grows without control Sweet smells climb up my nose Everything goes on under my nose Without my knowing. She is a rose Her billowing robe flows like abundant sap Chinese female gold, her dress is yellow orpiment Her shift in yellow also, gem of the orchard She is a scorching…