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* This is a special, rather intricate rhyme scheme I created called “Carallon” - I hope you enjoy it. *
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talk to me
walk to me
throw those happy hips -
tossed to the heavens
glossed, lucky sevens
such crimes there drip your lips …
how can a man so obedient
find expedient lies and quips
to tempt a maiden
(laden, heavy)
her own falsehoods -
the garnered goods
such shan’ts and shoulds …
spell your heart’s apocalypse?
dream of me
scream of me
hold me in those eyes -
my optic prison
the oceans, risen
the stead of my guise’s demise …
how can a sea so colloquial
find parochial whisp’ry sighs
to wash your wording
(hurting, heavy)
my hopes divine -
such grand design
while thoughts entwine …
as your sacred heart’s goodbyes?
center me
enter me
one good scheme will do -
bribed lover, forlorn
your cover, thus torn
twist the screw to wind it through …
how can such dreams of divinity
rouse infinity midst this coup
of countless forsaken
(taken and tossed)
bloody moments, brief -
ruined raw on the reef
begging heaven’s relief …
just to kiss the hems of you?
divide me
inside me
swim the coursing surge -
invade full, these cells
turned dopamine hells
through the lustration of your urge …
how can you manage to panic me
when the manic Me won’t diverge
to things you can handle
(a vandal of souls)
the thief of those things -
sweet lucidness brings
that monster who sings …
the dearest, most deadly dirge?
for YOU fed me …
… that sexy scourge.
Copyright © Gregory Richard Barden | Year Posted 2022
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