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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Anaïs Nin







“Man Eating Flower” 



Voluptuous lips 
Velvet soft and slick
mouth words that skip
and crush off wet tongues to 
french kiss and swallow
all the serious insects

Like a siren sings 
sailors to her 
ocean’s salty cave 
then envelops them 
in soft marzipan 
sugary bliss 

Enticing 
An Understanding 
like gullible
Narcissus
bitten, numbed and
transfixed

Light shining all Black
they see themselves
in your reflection
all palindromes
eventually
they cut you,

some slack -

They need their 
backs scratched

Words like elixirs 
dropped on bored and sleepy eyelids
and under tongues
medicinal 
welcomed 
and called forth

You conjure
They conjure

Your petals' perfume, intoxicating,
bloom in your silent atmosphere, where
purple profusions of the most welcomed lie
open legs and minds calling out 
to Incubi and Succubi
sucking on your unfulfilled mind 

Full of jubilant stories 
never lived

Arms and legs 
outstretched
smiles and sighs 
mortar and pestle 
pumice bowled
crushed golden glories

They dream 
You dream

Then silently 
the drugged mind
closes around stamens 
and people become bugs 
Life is a drug
In your twilight moments

You think 
if that's not me 
in the mirror, 
who are you 
when you face 
your mirage?

Flower eating Man
Man eating Flower

We are all walking in our minds 
naked souls 
requiring a lesson
in pushing through a tight 
and unforgiving birth canal 
with warm wet massage

Who then wonder
when standing 
before that 
mirror
in the dark

Who is this?
Turn off the Light
Let me sit for 
a while in the 
oily comfort of 
darkness 

To find the true
Answers 
scried

Reality is swallowed 
comfortably 
When the honour guard
of imagination calls
to save the day

Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn

Invisible lines of denial 
between paramours
the closed doors
and all the empty ballrooms
with Ghosts Romancing 
Life’s real dancers

Voluptuous lips 
Velvet soft and slick
mouth words that skip
and crush off wet tongues to 
french kiss and swallow
all the serious insects

(LadyLabyrinth / 2020)





“The important task of literature 
is to free man, 
not to censor him, 
and that is why Puritanism 
was the most destructive 
and evil force which ever 
oppressed people
and their literature: 
it created hypocrisy, 
perversion, 
fears, 
sterility.”
Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947



She Inspires Series - AN Poetry Contest 
"We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are." Anais Nin




Deadline: 29/2/2020




n.b. Competition sponsor: Maureen McGreavy
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