Tag: poem
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Secret-revealing storm
Unflagging, unflappable, clinker-dragging wind In battering ram flurries self-expending. Expedient rending, thatches tore, slates fell, Holes developed in well-worn awnings, despite myriad warnings. Defrocking, menhir-knocking tempest. Restless tents sway in windwhip like widdershins ships parading, Walls expanding wing-akin, lifted skin reveals naked sin. Rigid stays torn away. At gale’s boastful most, nearest Boreas’ throat A…
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Pointless arguing
Such amazing weights borne gracefully Words marry with tasteful ceremony Fate-binding winds before they turn away from me Bloodletting, praying beside vials of incorruptible saintblood Waves raising all heights like raving arms at night’s zenith Queenly-seeming, seething until the next comes speeding in. My eye colour tide like an unstill coverlet Flagging rudder of Mother…
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Ask Time and Tide, why?
In my sight vivid dye-excited tribes Waves of soon-dying waves. Water dies to avoid mavenhood’s indignity, only babes and the erased. Born-dying on racing track birth canals, haste of life unallowable: Flower’s change of countenance; Child growing into brother’s trousers, from mousy to accountant. Raging at pace, at step, at incredible haste At words hardly…
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Last example of his genus
Not a gangbanging lad, Frankly don’t understand ’em, fam. When hanged, you’ll all dangle same time, The hangman assures you’re all dropped the same angle; Piss dripping from cooling, hardening ankles. Full of anger but budget constraints straight demand new angles, Reprimanded because I’m sandwiched between new management And campaign veterans with tenure who’re unmanageable.
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NTHNGLSMTTRS
Metallica how nothing else matters Face flattened against glass Marvelling at patterns interstellar craft carved Left for us in a gallery of grass to regard Driving a battered sleek black Skoda Passenger seat sket named Clodagh From Collon near Drogheda in Louth Nicely dressed if you can call that clothed Messy mattress replaced my back…
Alchemisland 