Buterfleoge

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Silken frayed wings trace her
Piquant face inside shades
Of triangular schemes.
Folded eyes, succumbing
Lips parted at the seams.

Binding whinstone broken
With undulating wings,
Panting through ocean air,
He settled outside her
Equinoctual stare.

Gossamer gray-white clouds
Silhouette unceasing
Waves, crashing onto one-
Self, no hesitation.
Conjuring sages have won.

Salient drops washed on
Their parallel lips a
Purchased chrysalis kiss.
Salivating waves churn,
Oceanic abyss.

Carrion Conundrum

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The old, abandon house
A weather-aged timepiece
Settled upon my eye's periphery.

Leaves dressed in ceremony
Sounded the night with attitude
Beneath a hallowed moon.

Curiosity stepped me closer,
Closer still,
To the front porch
Where I saw a large, engraved stone.

Wearing cold night air
On chill bumped arms
I wrapped myself in Halloween fear.

My trembled hand
Approached the red-eyed
Jack-o-lantern until
It rested upon the upraised lid.

Three crows surged
With flight and stalling stare
Into afterlife's oblivion.

Ibidem (In the Same Place)

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Roan horse and foal
Incept the imbricated clouds,
Their umber eyes gleaming.

Running against fluvial wind
An intonation of neighing ensued
Amidst the seriated oaks,
Rooted in a senescent field.

Somewhere between the grassy sinews
And toaster-aged trees a philly grew
Grazing in this matrix of idleness.

Imminent was mother's
Inanition. Her death
Imposed nature's cruelty,
Into his watchful eyes.
Incessant neighing was
Intertwined with snorting
In absentia of... her.

autumn's laughter

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autumn grass
sways
to opium
sky,
daylight's sweet nectar.

i watch a lone morning glory grow
among
the warm saxicolous
waiting for first signs.

cleft leaves fall
between my fingers
painting my skin in red-orange.

this insinuating color rolls
through my hand's fjord to blushing
roads of rubble, settling in sleep
upon the

devil's
cellar door.
laughter's sinuous sound rises with-

out incident.

Love Letter

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Painting courtesy of Stellan K at Hopeless Poet blog.


Her ebony hair whittled
From a raven's feather
Cascades her shoulders, full quotation
Like evensong in November
Catching on a dilated sun
Until it falls in thin wisps around her fingertips.

The outline of the letter hides quartered fingertips
In open crags of white storm a solace whittled
Against the equinoctial sun
Those camber words carved with a second feather
Become an erased November
Slumbering in soldered quotation

Her love becomes a bruised quotation
Fielded to her flaccid fingertips
Where tears dry against a canvassed November.
She watches while her whittled
Sanctuary falls against the nevermore feather
Sanctioned by the pneumatic sun.

She allowed the inceptive sun
Time to refrain from guarded quotation
Of indigo sky and tree that feather
Surrounding mountains before she used casual fingertips
To place his forgotten and whittled
Name into parched November

Earth. She caressed the sleeping November
With her hand warm as forgiving sun
Until the subjacent field was whittled
Away from her sight. Then she buried in sandy quotation
His last love letter. Her creased fingertips
Like an obfuscated feather.

She woke to a raven's fallen feather
A keepsake from an edged November
That washed her lithe fingertips
With a glint of mourning sun.
She began her daily quotation,
Tears evicted and whittled.

Her heart his death whittled, empty, broken like tip of a feather
A requisite quotation before grains of earthen November
And ides sun sand through her fingertips.

Genocide

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My poem came from reading this news article today. It disturbs me to think there are people out there this cruel.

Genocide

They wear mizzle in their eyes
Trying to console children's cries.
From blatant gypsy hands
Their pets succumb to bloodshot sands.
No pinion for flight
Into Heaven's warm light.
They come to rest beside Cibuco River
Beneath limes cover there is no shiver.
A child's laughter
Thirsty for their pet's safe hereafter.


calligraphy

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cold gray initial lay
calved with a knock and
chisel in concrete. A
camber of three letters
certain to weather the
cessation of wind and
chafe hand across its skin.

I tried my hand at a Pleiades today. 3ww words are in bold.

Adagio

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Sojourn sunlight on the horizon
Sojourn sunlight on the horizon
I want to go where rain grows
I want to go where rain grows
Where on the horizon I go
Rain grows sojourn sunlight.

Between grey and emotion my fingers uncurl
Between grey and emotion my fingers uncurl
Where shadows wash aground
Where shadows wash aground
Wash aground where my fingers uncurl
Emotion and where, between grey?

My voice upon fading in adagio
My voice upon fading in adagio
Take my hand from the water now
Take my hand from the water now
Fading in adagio from now take my hand
My voice upon the water.

Sojourn sunlight fading upon the water
Where shadows wash aground in adagio
Between grey and emotion
Rain grows on the horizon from now
Take my hand, my voice
I want to go where my fingers uncurl.

japanese garden

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limbs joust between wind
and atmosphere securing
butterfly midst trees

rocks strewn alongside
dry stream thirst September rain
ancient wooden bridge


buy a drink, any drink

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guy walks into bar
says buy a beer and drink it
college paid in full

My first attempt at a dreamku. Here's a link to Roswila's Dream and Poetry Realm blog if you are interested in knowing more about dreamkus.

Baptism

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I feel a sketch of sun
Upon my Caucasian skin as
I walk across Feng Shuied stream,
This chasm of youth,
With bare and crooked feet
I silted the stream,
Each step, breaking Zen
Like a foreign language
Translated and broken into
Fragments of sound until
I washed away in the sediment
Waking along the
Extended banks of peripeteia
Sutured to my new life.