Tag: poem
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Armoured protector
Lapis lazuli his catch-your-eye devices. Imagine man plated Coloured like a sedated Yet defensively animated Camouflager. My beak weakens, steamless Beaten by the steel of her teak. The moment that she speaks At once every hue flashes peep show fashion the filled seats. From butter to blood to blackness; unfocused, impressionist crocuses; Yellow, purple, red,…
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Marrying a beetle
My stem web-filmed Three night’s sleepless Sneak in an easing blend between Coke lines widthed like Elephant knees Chain like Goliath’s bike Ring selection, Mordorine Perp tank border drive Purp ganj tore me borderline My eyes warning fires. Courting sentences I’m at the Spire guiding The buyers. A sidewalk spider Of spilled gutrot cider contented…
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Death of a captain
You hardly kiss me I am Nelson dying, knowing triumph is at hand Guided to the mystery, surrounded by gallants Saying Kiss me, Hardy. Give your hand as ballast. Flimsy the sand hemming in the sea from the land I cannot see the seaside without the brand of Hemingway’s heavy hand. I felt unforced a…
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Yellowing
Me? A soldier? Fearful pate to sloping shoulder To painful toetop Tho’ no less fierce in daring rushing over the tap. INRI the brief and garish slogan Of my increasingly-flown banner Which a leal cohort answers.
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Take dictation
This reading thirst, this needy curse, I have overworked Until the burgeoning calendar’s golden bursts Were dark as the undetermined, hearse hued, before my hooded eyes Which light refuse. The sound of static is the pleased cat hiss of life’s lighted fuse As its chewing flame eats a tunnel through tallow unto charcoal. A dimmed…
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