Tag: love
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Art Urian
Before toilet-named Merlin averted Irish stone to Avebury Before Arthur wielded king blade a lake lady had given him He owned favour, loud céilí at Camelot Suffering also, even at breast, fakery and deception Arthur’s Lady Guinevere, fairest ere of Albion Heir to a holy holly king’s love, eloped with Launcelot In shaded glades graced…
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Puck Fair Puck Head Off
Number one, King Pecker Dunne If Spotify had him, England’d be didded gone inside an hour Power of sixty minutes each pushing around the circumference of Cronos’ slavery orange All is aflower Hours since sense last spoken, sentences rewinding like snagged reels Reaching pure sentiment, telling everyone how much they mean Talking about reinstating royal…
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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…
Alchemisland 