Astronomer
Your skin...........
A tapestry of diamond dwarfs,
Glittering on moonlit heavens;
Cascading from forehead to ankle;
A waterfall of ecstatic moonbeams;
Partaking perfection in a golden skyline.
Your eyes.............
That shimmer and blitz;
Like Venus at nightfall;
Twin getaways sprinkling highways of light;
Amidst your bountiful carpets,
Of diamonds and moonbeams;
Your hair............
Shooting to earthly gravity;
Like a meteor shower,
Bowing to a convivial tug;
Luscious and falling in a momentous bundle.
Your nucleus.............
Jupiter with her craters wide open;
Your magnanimous red spot,
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Perfect Kiss of Death
An extravaganza of luminescence;
As life forms stand tall and straight;
Yet vulnerable to her blitzing self;
Waiting in the corridors of time;
To kiss her mesmerizing pouts;
As kisses are in free flow,
To monumental souls; to the tallest of them all;
Colossal giants in stature;
Giant sequoias and dawn redwoods;
Wind sculpted cliff tops;
Metallic giants strutting towering apexes;
Sky scrapers with alloyed masts;
Umbrellas hovering over ambling crowns;
Even gentlemen in top hats;
As she carves her journey, passionately kissing the bodies in her path;
From the zenith to the basement, to the foot of their existence;
Her luminescence, a gift of evanescence;
Mystical yet mercurial, the snuggle of a grim reaper;
As the perfect storm partakes
Perfection, in her kiss of death.
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My Shangri-La
My hearts longs for you, my princess
As your yesterday thaws with my ingrained desire
As I reminisce my hunt of you in a fog of pheromones
Guided by the aroma of your inflorescence
The lavender of my heart's yearning
With an impeccable skin tone, the heritage of bamboo
With glinting eyes submerged in ivorian desire
A visage transcending the honesty of the full moon
Naive like sugar cane yet refined like maple syrup
Symmetrical as a honey comb, even sweeter than honey
As your imprints of yesteryear left a legacy of yearning
Famished like a lion stranded in the middle of the Sahara
Gasping for your fragrance, quenched of your apical taste
As my senses waltz to the essence of your mortality
Longing for providence to pave footpaths of destiny
To sculpt a crossroad to your oasis
Your exhaling caryatid, my Shangri-la
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A Poet's Quest
Hiding beneath an indomitable fortress, the human skull
Seeds of thought hibernate
For destiny's fingers to select the chosen ones
For a metamorphosis, to sprout and leaven stems
Bearing on their herculean shoulders
The quintessence of raw beauty, the meat of creative genius
To dawn blades of lyrical acutance
To engender sheaths of shrouded mystery
Transforming the endeavor of the obsessive psyche
To the pinnacle of lyrics's transcendence
Outshining springs and fountains of ideality
Surpassing the humility and mortality of perfection
To the disconformities of metaphoric psychosis
To draw divine blood from bounties of creation
To sculpt destinies mastering the tide and ebb of the percussion nib
To exonerate life from wood pulp, to galvanize spirits from scripts
For the embodiment of beauty's psychedelic inimitability
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The Divine Storyteller
A storyteller on a pulpit, a podium of radiance
A lighthouse in the turbulent seas of humanity
Viscount keeper of the holy word
As stentorian discourse parts fervent lips
Uprooted from scrolls of time-tested fables
Scripts eternalized by the breath of divinity
Transcending age's resolute craftsmanship
Defying nature's chisel maneuvered by the palms of time
To capture the tapestries of divine history, twine by twine
To sow seeds of knowledge on fertile temples, to harvest charity in grains of deed
For the creatures of God to mature in benevolence, in the surrogacy of mother earth
To fly to the heavens, fluttering the wings of your conscience
As a lonely crusader battles with his arsenal of love and honor
To sculpt with finesse fragments of perpetual clay
To bestow to effigies of mankind the fountain of eternal life
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Passage Of Love
Buxom breasts, shrouding the wealth
Of an endowment, like no other
The devotion of motherhood, luscious copious vats
Hibernating infancy
Opened by the doors of puberty
To an ocean of opportunity, to anchor to her fatum
To snare the roaming man to her flaunting summits
To lavish upon the yearning heart, the veil of lust, the meat of love
To metamorphose her shrine for a miraculous symbiosis
As finally, her inheritance from the Gods, has embraced kismet's palms
The bequest of a symbiotic growth, nibbling her teats
Suckling her tips to engender the flow
Of the most altruistic of wealth, tides of gushing milk
A narrative of legends, where blood loses her titian luster
To embrace virgin white coats of an apical affection
Dispensed in to the yearning cavities of a fledgling toddler
The selfless passage of a potent legacy
Founded on the principle of love
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The Legacy Of The Soil
In my forefather's blood
Rests my gentile peasant legacy, of a dexterous islander
Born to the fertile soils of Serendip
As the seeds of my legacy were cultivated
On soggy terrain for an opportune metamorphosis
Golden terraces laden with logged grains of prosperity
A tribal farmer persona transcending mortality
To the throne of a medieval mythical kingdom
To the august presence of a sorcerer of the soil
A sower granted the wish of king Midas, miraculous palms
Sowing the twines of the intricate tapestry of my heritage
Where no swords were wielded, no blood was shed
Where no battlefields were fronted, no prisoners were seized
Where roots were laid and sprouts were sprung
A legacy like no other, to own the spirit of the soil
To harness the blessings of the sun gods
To garner the vitality of the seasonal monsoon
To cultivate hope in the promise of a bowl of rice
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The Nonsensical Enigma - Love
Love
The fusion of being
To an intangible wealth, yet a collector's bounty
When the heart is soaked by surging tides of affection
By the ingrained succulence of another life form
Partiality, transcending roots, kinship or pedigree
Fidelity, surpassing the legacy of your shadow
Devotees to commitment yet free of slavery
Reverence, exceeding faith's inventory of icons
When godship is humanized to flesh and blood
Where blood is rarely splattered, but worshiped in to flush
Where flesh is seldom mutilated, but traversed for pleasure
Where the heart is captured by both an earthly and heavenly desire
The endowment of wings to the flight-impaired
The gift of the fountain of sight to the unsighted
The bestowment of a compass to a wandering heart
The bequest on man, transcendence from mortality
To the surrealism of an earthly divinity
To hold in your heart, that nonsensical enigma - love
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A Psychedelic God - A Thank You Note
The drift of a percussion nib
A mental voyager, a bohemian cosmonaut
Exploring uncharted frontiers of the whimsical mind
In the vastness, the infinitude of galactic spaces
Perforating ingenious black holes
Chutes of inspiration, free falling to the plea of gravities
As the wandering mind chisels on stone paper
Its journeys and treks, legendary tales exuding the essence
Of an overgenerous chimera, surpassing sight's farthest prophecies
Cerebral odysseys transcending mythical epics, medieval folklore
To capture the nomadic spirit, yet the exemplary purity
Of the suppleness of creation, masterminded
By another horizon-less wayfarer, an apical journeyman
A celestial potter, nom de plume ‘Lord the creator'
As a humble poet parts with a thanksgiving note
For the gift of a boundless providence, to sketch his own tale of fatum
As he tributes the imaginative force of a psychedelic God
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Seafarer
Counting milestones and landmarks
Trading blows with destiny
Straddled on planks of wood
Amidst rampant storms, Cylopsian ogres of the ocean cover
Riddling life with the encroachment of labyrinths
As the mast blazes to the blitzing strikes from the breaching heavens
Entrapment of man in the doldrums of choice
Crossroads landscaped by the hands of God
As orbitals beckon for the pilgrims of the heart
Each blossoming with roses, yet scathing with thorns
The promise of spring, yet the seclusion of winter
Nomadic journeys uprooting legacies, as shores are absented
By conquistadors of fatum, Columbus's seafarers
As the sailor in you emerges to waterscape journeys of the heart
To uncharted frontiers, sea-locked lands, emerald isles
Mast sprinkled alight with St Elmo's Fire
Searching for the serenity of a Cyclopsian ataraxia
To anchor the heart on convivial shores
To hoist your heritage on permeable soil
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