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A silent youth bleeds the truth For her timeless highness Her queen scream ascends As a trill of rage Her life Has seeped its way, down in his marrow The fifteen year curse Of one full summer night The north star explodes Into scalding parables, Scattering her ghosts, Who have trailed him from home
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Under broad and Prussian blue skies There were cattle cars rumbling Eastern-bound, Full of man-made screams In the Antebellum dust, There were chain-linked kin Full of home-grown songs Rushing into the present Twisted roots of old Claim the soil as theirs, Where bloodlines interlock Under land and sea
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Hot metal Has scraped away at what remains of a son, His peace, adrift In each winter night’s swell The freezing tide Often sets him ablaze Beyond the search lights of home And their merciful ships So he boils out of reach, A relentless scream Devoid of a face Among the phantoms at dusk …
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The shoveled up bones of a skirmish Lay plain in the day Resurrecting the havoc Of a razor sharp past Old wounds are made new Within Sunday’s stern haze Beneath the pale stare of noon Carved apart by dusk By that slaughter long ago When the mayhem had torn Through flesh and marrow Poetry…
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I will cut apart the apron strings When the foghorn calls For me to depart Through the daybreak mist Where my former wants All former foes Will fade to ghost white To the new open port So crowded with ships Filled with young vagabonds On their endless passage
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Thrashing out of the nest, The cool morning is calling Starting as glimmer Where a black river curves Rumbling and revving Never sparking to life The full day sputters And binds me to earth Flattened and defused Before a nightmare’s whirl The enraged cyclone Must claim its revenge Poetry books
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This is the place Where she’s been all along Shape-shifting through the years Dissipating in the night This new era is hers Her time to lunge forward, Cleave apart the intruders Who stray within reach Who will spring the trap next? Fall asunder in her web? Who will roam in her eyes With their hands…
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Try to stay afloat Kick with all of your strength and rage In this struggle of our lives Towards solid ground’s reach This night we’ll survive What we’ve christened “end times” May the horsemen fall away From their war-bound steeds Stay aflight above the stars They’ll ignite our way To a swift remedy
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All of my once waning desires Now fearlessly scream In this new and brave era, As one dignified voice Swiftly they have scaled Into the caverns of my mind To seize the cold reigns, And jet for new skies We have left the old roads in the dust To circle Mindlessly in silence We have…
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A dreamless, rolling pasture A wordless stroll, Gives at last A chance To breathe, Reset These dead hours fly Into a new life raging, Screaming afar With a desperate resolve When the silence is broken Old quarrels descend To reclaim what was lost On the lonely passage
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