Lady Labyrinth Poet Free verse

Bedouin

"Bedouin"



I stand here
holding time in my hands
for you yet you remain hidden
watching 

black sands on closing air
bedouin messages written
in code invisible to most
it blooms you open

the envelope silently spits
words, they escape into you
you breathe what's left quietly in
consider the path between 

dreams and reality
I hijack your solitary cells daily
you’re a Skinwalker like a Selkie
shedding freedom for a bad marriage

the godless god
considers you not worth 
a conversation, like a stalker
he follows you silently 

without speaking
swallows what’s good 
from the black buzzard perch
he sets the trip wire

unknown in the dark
there he sits
hidden in his vestry 
shuffling the bad poetry parishioners

he weighs your worth
smirking he 
watches on
turns your music off

(LadyLabyrinth/2021)



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Ts Poetry August 11, 2021 at 1:06 PM There are forces that are other worldly that even the brilliant can't explain...keep moving to the beat of the music Lady Labyrinth August 11, 2021 at 4:22 PM dedicated to my jolly band of 'trolls' :)

Lady Labyrinth August 1, 2021 at 6:44 PM "If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. Lady Labyrinth August 1, 2021 at 6:44 PM It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery--isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.” Charles Bukowski, Factotum

Lady Labyrinth August 1, 2021 at 6:40 PM “We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding." Rudyard Kipling, The Light That Failed

Lady Labyrinth August 1, 2021 at 6:40 PM “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.” John Donne, No man is an island Lady Labyrinth August 1, 2021 at 6:42 PM "It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”