Tag: poet
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Killer Seed
No fitting lyrics No fixity of fate No faith in empiricals Autarchs and imperials breed serial killers and plant them among the populace Paid populists reduce proud pulpits to dinsome soapboxes Panthers slides among suburban planters, licorice hides contrasting white chrysanthemums Phantoms below your blinking garden lanterns, hardening stare as you scrunch for answers Crunch…
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CRUSADE
Hephaestus of the lean-to, the villages hammydown armours seen to As if they were Pope’s robes purple as peacock’s tail fanned like a winning hand to mock the downy cygnets, parading that office He mends lockets, shoes oxen, builds strongboxes, tests locks, ensures a sword’ll knock through an enemy’s props and drop him He beats…
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Ascent to Zenith (Virgo Venus)
A bleach injection to enhance my senses, Dr Domestos cleaning method At Hod climbing up a well wall to Bethod, leaving fingernails embedded Impressing bloody runes on slick stones, light toward which I’m headed Like a host unleavened held up to heaven by the Reverend’s enemy. Cool sap of Spring hues robes Woodwose ceremony in…
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Nights now the world is over
I’ll give to the bag for life It lasted longer than ninety percent of the people I met in my life Well worth it for the price Clouds like a 99 in a sunless sky, entry of a shadowed century Its sentry a wounded moon, sent here to keep us stationary These are nights now…
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A sense of subtext
Her swan hand banded with opal and topaz, straddled a gilt carafe Her neck like a pale giraffe emeralds green as glass glinting like egyptian caskets Elastics fasten her hair into exotic fashions, her architect an artist of passions Her tacit manner, a taciturn mná, she is hewn with many facets Even the bold are…