Tag: night
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Pilgrims Walking – IV
We have lamps inside us Whose light outshines us Shines outside us Shrine to holiness Lazaret of Lazarus Mage of Montserrat We are sheep with a wise husbandrist You are bondmen drifting in twisted chains Someone is grinning at widespread chagrin Someone is winning by this felling wind Silence is telling, loud is the shelling …
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Descriptions of Night (completely out of ideas but classics never get old)
Day’s demise Relapsing again Night overpowering Bearing down Teacher’s pet Hecate’s scrying orb Tar-jammed vein colour of imminent night Censer-fog as wreathed Aaron’s Tanakhi Bats or worse ascend to their silhouettes Moon’s width wingspan arrival Annunaki Illuminating aerial sallying their numbers countless at tallying eerie ring around the haunted moon Haunted oceans gap haunted peaks,…
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Brother
Hook nosed with rod crooked God-favoured blood hissing God selects favourites from among his constructions Fortune’s favourites, in like flavour The bloodlines of his nearest dearest host mostly beloved beloved most. Each artful dizzying of the clockface marking countless deep time epochs Suffering the Mosaic Hebrews were plagued by a pox They wailed at walls…
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Midnight Things
Midnight shape of horrible love Improfound improprieties ignobility ingenious igneous infallibility inessential ipsissimus inchoate iridescentdestitution ignatius ingress investiture inseam instep out of step U ugliest vowel You fairest nyad, pearl diadem holding salt droplets fairer than diamond Assaulting sensuality radiating from your death-moist stinger Macehead of your tailtop, baleful but tameable Midnight sound of falling…
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Vulptuous
A fox furtive as Virgo exits its den sniffing the air Marzipan moon dented like a well used marble Voiding forecast, mystery mother cups her dew Twinless kinless night Each night is different to the last, darkling snowflake
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Nighteen
Finally a working man gambles profitably Able prophets predate their aeons Abel’s blood predated upon, the earth itself drinks itself. Prayed upon Soon prey the bull’s blood Pulls the King from the fool’s hood. Workmen have captured the ways and the devices: Those which the enforced illiteracy of the Druids protected, Those which the Mayan…