This Light
The sun's corona finagled
Like an inveigling noose
At the small of my neck
But the garish flashes
Cascading the black words
Quells the somnolence
Malingering with the croons
Of this silent snooze.
Drown me with this infinity
And I would never be gone
Never be away in this light,
In this light,
This light.
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Before Your Gates
The splendor of the slivered water
entices like a pleading aubade
lost in the myriad of faces
reflecting each other's banality
and enunciating the raw grandeur
the moon descried in your pits
and the treacle in my chasms
deluged like a torrent zephyr
with a halcyon volition to break
before your adamant gates
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The Pen Drooped
The flame ignited my insides
And I squirmed beneath
The whispering wind,
The moon took away my howls
And crucified my tongue,
And as I whittled in pain
Without a hiss of air
The veins shrunk
Clogging the heart,
I have ran out of blood
This is all that I have.
My last strand of life
Is sent into abeyance.
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Vermin's Hive
A drone in my ears
Stinging, nibbling creeping
A spectroscopic existence
Do not press,
I will sink.
But if I jump
Let me sink.
Intrusive creepers
Extemporizing pain
Imbecilic brains
Why are you breathing my air?
Why am I amongst the vermin?
I feel squalid
Devoured by pity
Abort existence
Cringe. Fade away.
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One
I lust for empathy
At least permit me to entropy
and this void will be my asylum
as I rebuild my inebriated beacons
to raise the roof beams
that will mantle my perpetual nights
and our individual darknesses
in one final clout,
in one splendid dream
that will eat a life time
in a glacial sleep
we will be
one.
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What The Scarecrow Denied
Vagaries that revealed nothing
but the flames in the viscera
crowing with a murder of crow -
a dark void of ponderous misery
under the dark wings, and bleared
behind the sore caterwauling;
Perched under an erratic weather
waiting to be hauled out, but
ousting every chance with
an arrogant stead for humility.
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Hummingbird
Kite-wings
Against the gust
A dandelion-chance
In the sky of lust
Scintillating whispers
Of charming grace
Siege and cipher
Infinitesimal daze
Pollens adrift
Your compass
Nectar-beak
Abide the weather
Of your fleet
And the colors
Prancing through
The metallic veneer
Of your feather's
Lulling hymns,
Hummingbird.
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Pits
The coals pressed tighter
Beneath my daunted feet
As I breathe out
And not breathe in
In the famished mouth
Of this tarnished pit.
I don't need your pity,
I don't want your empathy,
You can stand like towers
And watch over me
And rise from the sores
Of this shrilling vale
But you would never know
What the pits
Told me.
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Woes Versus Rues IV
Our veiled words
And adamant liaison
"Where are they? "
I asked myself, I ask you
Knowing full that I have changed
Under a stronger harlequinade
I no longer recognize the mirrors
Or the aborted reticence
Even in your generosity
I guess we've lost the man,
Who named you once
"Sybella, the lady of secrets."
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Tethered To Broken Ties
Zithered strings that was as sanguine
as the machinations of the continents -
the distance behind the iron curtains
like a fountain of oasis, there is
a drought slumbering deep within
bludgeoning messages upon
the crest of the frothy mirage
under the jousting sun; It makes
everything harder at its best
when I yearn for what I can't.
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