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Peer into the blackboard sky And reap her tributes of fleeting wonder High above She straddles all things Hovering atop our most fragile mortality Unwaveringly She glints streaks of gold Carving rouge paths of flaming ember Where frozen nights Despair beneath Driven away from the skin of pondering lovers Distant pearls Are my abode Grazed…
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Doomed to stirring nightfall My conscience blossoms Heartache and fury The ghoulish regret Drones on and on in rest Ravaging the slumber That quakes and boils Where was remorse When I carved a startling trail Through the scorn of bush And the refrain of “turn back!” When I catered to a young whim Roaming unsure…
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I wield Hollow words and stale ramblings Done away with flamboyant comforts That shield my inner grizzly wreckage The soul was depleted And dispatched long ago With no gifts to bear For its earthly home Lies cracked and brittle The thoughts slow And thunder no more Taken by the gradual rusts of time They unsheathe…
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Lazy days Are served on tussling green Combed over by an aloof wind Free, to effortlessly waft and wander I harbor their memories Framing each transient wonder Stocked in my thoughts with care And recalled at each harrowing low Lazy days Are to remain with me Cool and collective as they always were I prevail…
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Mourning cellos Sweep away devastation Through Munich rubble And Arnhem ruin The artists remained No matter how scathed Unmoved by bullets Falling bombs and mayhem The heart and soul Turn onward with vigor To reap from the mind And sooth their earth Crafts live on Some pried from frigid death And given to the hands…
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Alluring echoes Swindle the mind In a mantra of trickery That softened my bind Or so, I once perceived The sneak thievery Of the angelic dark Seeps into daylight To gorge upon every spark Love, a crude and callous blunder The defilement of slumber Mangles my heartstrings Agile atop my despair Where the wind of…
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As I fume in solitude Ahead the backdrop of boiling anguish Bereft of all earth The immense soil that burns incessantly I shield my wounds In soothing confession The purging of sorrows That scald and maim The refrain of anguish Flocks in menacing droves Coveting the blank skies And flowering in black The refrain of…
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Read along if you wish. Time is to be savored Accented, with sparse pinches of joy And served, Upon the gilded platter of your choosing I became, a stranger among the elements Serenaded by a host of wailing goslings With rosebud fragrances, wafting around and above How I crave to remain motionless As a prisoner,…
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The infinite tussle Gushed, with a nightmarish glare Swelling, into the towering Goliath That lay siege to every quiet shore Before, this terrible stirring All tranquility within me shattered Fear accelerated! I sputtered, and slowed As an offering before the raging ocean Frothing Gushing Exhumed from dormancy The Terrible rising Leaned forth with vengeance Darting…