Tag: love
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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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Increasingly elaborate methods of snatching enamoureds
Songs pregnant with harmful advice Preached the old mailboxed puppy methods of courting a wife. While using nailscissors to cut her name into that day’s fortieth Iris, I decided not to subscribe anymore to such wiles. Resorting Instead to that which so-testing time tested and found well measured So my results will attest; Her fishnetted…
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Bottling an ineffable
By sheepish weir she appears with ireing fleetness I know in my bones, in my toes, in my throes, I am that hireling she seeks. From the parapet of a threatened nest, the sharkfin impression of a beak Seeks out from wattled thorn and hay and down, to speak confoundingly Of lovers sworn to smothering…
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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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