Tag: love
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Lover’s Declaration II
Soldappled courtyard open-aired, a vast cantharus spits Rarified air courtly peacocks plume-haired share with Recalcitrant barbary apes from far Abyssinia, split-haired Palm trees hoarding hirsute spheroids, pomes with plums grappling Adorning weakling child changeling limbs of saplings Gradients made such that all drainage is tasted, without wastage And no vestige of fungible, fertile earth should…
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Lover’s Declaration I
Temple by verdant garden girdled Mellifluous dares divers thereheard Trees herded to queer shapes, none straight Pensieve benches at pleasant station, jasmine scented Roses twinned gracefully, chimeras dually-blazed Amazing escarpments and frontage Fruit like feast’s coloured bunting strung Bid wonder, with odd frond parloured Engrossing topiary of Her Father’s grand garden. Sunflower wheels orange-spoked, fire-smoking…
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Short distances
Who can forgive Apology ungiven Silently sleighted Inwardly simmering. Both in the quiet living room Like a place of gloomy piety Miles millions between us loom Bed like a tomb, inch two. Between us, marooned In my own life, lost island Stirring thereby neither skyward pilot Nor privateer, galley rammed with rifles. Together by oath…
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Wolf of you me-eating
Your wolven eyes undress me Glaived vestments hang open Like overpacked bags stoven In tendril and in rag fastened Below gristle, animate duress Hunter’s flensing knife your breath Against me peeling away my flesh. Wolf of you me-eating Bulk of view’s points disagreeing Demolition, each others’ overseeing A metre stick’s distance between us a cheetah…
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Shouldering Blame
Proseless beholder, with ear Cornwall’s Regan, with Lear Castaway, mice playing gaily at awaying cats Splayed on sands sacred to Bastet Anne Hathaway hath awayed Impained of heart, assized Surmised a thing taken lightly, a trifle Were not those lips mindful archers asking Fletch me amarous arms, basking in milk musked mine Let murrains tepid…