Tag: poem
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Verily like a whale
I am baleen cruelly-got Guts hot on the deck Rot combed by haruspices Selecting omens Courses directing I am Leviathan steaks feeding a ravenous Elect I am ambergris rich scent settling Dampening petal-redolent vials.
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Syphoning gas to give her a fighting chance
She persuades me to let her sage me before leaving If it could save you and I didn’t, it would grieve me Full sore, pray leeway A spraying haze unabating, she an Aaron Bathes me in miasmic armour Dispelling harm by charm She insists we wear amulets of her devisement Eyes painted onto shell mottes,…
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Winter criminal
No need of a bally anymore No new CVs in Templemore Peeling season upbraiding Henge vengeful Door to dark nebulae Raised in dawn ages In hate’s mist wraithed Sore-cheeked queen reigning, breath razor’d Climes brumal, brutal inclemency encrystals Galilean glassed voluminous, sinking vessels Fatal night to be homeless, Gelid flaying aeons of ice replaying Direwolves…
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Apocalyptic palette
Black and white and red all over Not a knave left taming kestrels Death which is breathless, balding Recalling vilest cancers, sore incurable Angst and lancinating pain unendurable Real as Durer’s grass, realer than real Fixity’s cessation, bubbling floors rubbled nations A heat risen which steel melts to mithril puddle A wobbly, hot mushroom apocalypse…
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Lover’s Declaration IV
Looking upon that frail image Of dashed innocence handsome Fractured armature obscene, needless casualty Why, Jove? Bleeding for loves which in actuality Divorced from lover fantasy Could never happen Young captains cut down standing Loaves never to leaven, for them heavengoing Like a crab crushed, rushed by gulls Never to grow to a man full…
Alchemisland 