Tag: poetry
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Lost statues in the Wife of Bath’s daughter’s bathwater
Laughing like a hyena Like Beavis When a word sounds like penis Couldn’t be keener OCD place couldn’t be cleaner, neater My mind lost like the statue of Athena.
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Oldbombs planted in the Land of the Young
Shameful statement But impaled if you’re not pagan In my demesne Bad move, I shoot like Shane One inhale, you’re turning pale Set sail as it’s turning seal grey I don’t fear gales, Fear Gael Starboard sight a cokewhite whale A sign of Poseidon’s favour Hold a trident, whose my fayther? Split my tongue to…
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The emerald-eyed knight whose soul was straight and true as arrowflight dies smiling, surrounded by spearpoints and baleful fire, laughing at the Reaper who fears to be undermined
A scream from the dell we shall not hear again A strong current my presence seems to disturb Streams flowing upward, time playing in reverse Like a rock LP, so mom can find satanic words Naming the corpsesite before the river is dredged Racket skis leaving cryptid prints by its wet edge Lured, mothing toward…
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The World as written by Martin Amis
My debased art has no place in the academy That loud rejection followed me like a shadow One plant they ensured deadheaded before it gathered steam They were, to say it mildly, unkeen On my tear-painted snapshots of a Goddess’ rape By blur-draped wraiths Our fate I hate to say Is a thousand year reign…
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Sucking old egg and poison from a fallen angel’s briarspun forkedbeard
All day inside Backsliding, often one must do oneself kindness When I’m rhyming My consciousness creeps kite high Scraping my eye with a paper’s edge To attain the folded vision of legend Naming the bird before it is fledged Taming the wind before the arrow is fletched Seeing the empty spaces before she has fled…
Alchemisland 