Tag: poetry
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Connectedness of the Unseen
Sitting in a green glade Denying dismay Darling buds May Grave to Aries’ April Hateful, apeful child of the Zodiac Hasty hasty feels no disgrace Counterposing sky, wide as cheshire smiles once they lie Four poster bed of the world Suddenly a sense of interrelation Objects elated by distant others Modes like phantom tones, toad-throated…
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Ancient Eastern War
Missileridden banners looking mothbitten, fluttering wind influenced In like rhythm pilgrim army carves a line Lion pelts clasped at breast by gold-threaded brooches Veterans with hangedman wisdom hang on the rhythm of a lissome Emperor’s words His pearl-footed sandals move aside sand into piles of gold as vault his banks He offers no thanks for…
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Narnia on the Therapist’s Couch
Freud’s last days looming Meets an unnamed Oxford Don We posit that it was CS Lewis Imagine what went on Interpreting Narnian dreams Turkish Delight’s hidden meaning PsychoAslanyzing.
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Gelding
Behind bars in straw littered byres Death-marked calves fart nervously Head of herd marked as farmer’s Smell of nitrogen Gentling vice make bulls androgyne Grandson in handsome wrangler jeans Couldn’t wrangle a cup of tea Sent out to have a man made of him.
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Relaxation of Oaths
Polluted mind once pristine prints indexed miseries to fill days In misericord order rules relax, habit sinching chords slacken Robes slash open, regal sashes slung chairback over roaring fires Pewter mugs with flickback lid tops Hop scent, chestnut coloured Apples orpiment, alluring as snakerolleds old Hob sent.
Alchemisland 