Tag: poetry
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Thin places
My foetid mind Sprouts to impotent life Like a dying lighter’s coaxed light Smoked so much kush I’m left a shell impression, a ghost ship. Behind my eyes, the killing potion of my emotionless ghost light. The post-light of goat worship managed my backslide.
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Orchid tongue
Lover’s odes, Which dolesome oafs Produce solely In wristbone-soiling tomes (On transport hard to hold), Can sound like odious fights conducted in language one can’t fangle Whose ruinous slights ignorance’s knightly shield disguises.
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Length of X
Frightening prizefighter Gath giant height Despite, passion’s tankard’s fashioned mouse-sized. Anger can seem outsized but I Know David’s fright’s later highted wasted time.
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How to fill a bath
Haughty diver very mindful found upon a bandit’s prying pushing trying Hider’s hatches. Obvious clasps at reality’s edges, Evidently installed at highest sanction. Filling a bath from my open veins, I am hopelessly quick draining like colour from the face Of one who wakes to banshee wailing When their beloved father is ill taken. A…
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Explaining away the phantom’s manifestation
Sir, you should know The reason they won’t go is that reportedly The guards of our fortress, A telling pause before going forward… Saw a ghost at watch’s close Before their shift was handed over; That close, one said, holding his hand An half foot from his unhandsome nose.
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