Tag: poem
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Heaven of the birds
In a copious above coating coppicingly my offerings of love. My doffed hat. Doves flying out of a hatch Destructive what love does. What lust enacts A more retractable and relaxed example of my character Should countermand with ceases, desists, orders for retreats and swift. Spent a gold bar on star-holding opals Eloping, we spent…
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Tolerance
Beyond coping My so-cajoled opiate boats barely register deathfetching dopeloads. Reading what daunting schemes my weed’s haunting smoke wrote Steam-wreathed my coned hopes Alone, with the rest of the coaxed Feeling what I promise is the breath of her ghost Her cluttered bedside stranger to the Bible Strength left me. Bereft, unable even to try…
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Fugitive lips
My lighter thumb-motored Igniting hosts a sun Molten ichor fire moving like a liar’s eyes Wrote entire poems in singeing diction. She cringed at any friction; Ephemeral, unknowable picture. Above the lip The rosehip elixir fit to spill spits Her lips were apples Made to sample pills and saddle quillers With saddening visions Of must-stay…
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Increasingly hard to discern
Thus must be The inestimable testament of my low deeds dictated aloud: Scenes from a life which no joy allowed. Every scribe hired out expires shortly thereafter Soon they’ll die out like cowards never seem to do in battle. I meet them, repeat my life’s meat, then death greets them No sooner seated are ferried…
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Trapped Madonna
Made brazen by schoolboy fascination I made Ability-stretching etchings which failed Utterly to evoke her sultry folktale alien. Carnelian the pristine carpet Quilting her needless kneeling. The weak trill of her armlets Charmed jarred snakes with the pegleg tapping of knitting needles.
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