Tag: romance
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Bounding after everafter bound
Trailing you like a dog-seen scent A shadow leant animation, enamoured by caster You alabaster in stillness, cheetah fleet or faster Your feet soundless, printing no tattoo, water Through the forest and I follow Chagrinning rutting harts Scattering unblinking hinds Chewing the cud of my bitter defeats Bleeding into my inkwell, ichor-riven odes.
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Choosy eater
In a word pickyeater Eat a random bird’s dirtbox But need my apples peeled Once smashed liqueurs drank the contents like a shot Once drank most of a bottle of Jäger from an ash tray But hesitate trying shrimp, because it has a face And shape I find repulsively unappealing Like a wriggling worm. Choosy…
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Lover’s Declaration IV
Looking upon that frail image Of dashed innocence handsome Fractured armature obscene, needless casualty Why, Jove? Bleeding for loves which in actuality Divorced from lover fantasy Could never happen Young captains cut down standing Loaves never to leaven, for them heavengoing Like a crab crushed, rushed by gulls Never to grow to a man full…
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Lover’s Declaration II
Soldappled courtyard open-aired, a vast cantharus spits Rarified air courtly peacocks plume-haired share with Recalcitrant barbary apes from far Abyssinia, split-haired Palm trees hoarding hirsute spheroids, pomes with plums grappling Adorning weakling child changeling limbs of saplings Gradients made such that all drainage is tasted, without wastage And no vestige of fungible, fertile earth should…
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Shouldering Blame
Proseless beholder, with ear Cornwall’s Regan, with Lear Castaway, mice playing gaily at awaying cats Splayed on sands sacred to Bastet Anne Hathaway hath awayed Impained of heart, assized Surmised a thing taken lightly, a trifle Were not those lips mindful archers asking Fletch me amarous arms, basking in milk musked mine Let murrains tepid…
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