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The Dilettante Diaries: In Stasis, Black Iris

The Dilettante Diaries: "In Stasis, Black Iris"



Oriental Lily's 
Stamen bleeds 
blush ochre dust
like icing sugar
duelling tongues
sweet captive 
musk

over stagnant 
white pure perfume
Stains soft feather fingerprints 
sweet bruises across warm velvet skin 
imprints a new story
a kiss lingers 
there just there
you know where
secret whispers begin

Again
Again

Ripe Tiger Lily 
purrs 
petals opening
languid longing 
Luscious 
Laugh
Vibrant
Sin 

Again
Again

Velvet revolver 
deep 
like 
Turin
Worships 
the 
Holy Ground
She grows in

new secrets sown
something grows
something begins

Again 
Again

Aquarius eyes 
languid pools 
for windows
drinks her in
like a
hummingbird
drinks her 
charms within
Leo addictive deep 
crimson 
she is vibrating 
Life 
draws you in

Luna cool 
kisses her 
heat
she is the 
Sun 
revolving 
you her muse
a lesson for now,
lean in

A revolver cocked
for killing past hurts
opens petals 
ruinous 
deep ripe purple 
plum
unfurls 
begins 
begins

again 
again

Evergreen 
Verdant
Elixir they 
sleep to dream
Just words 
in the 
luminiferous aether
waiting
waiting
waiting

intoxicating

New Chapter
In Stasis is
Black Iris
Surrenders
control
relenquished
Souls are
transforming 
trading

Black Iris
lies in waiting




(Lovejoy-Burton/September, 2018)







1.  Georgia O'Keeffe, "Black Iris", 1926
2.  https://www.georgiaokeeffe.net/
3.  https://www.npr.org/2011/07/21/138467808/stieglitz-and-okeeffe-their-love-and-life-in-letters
4.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEdKPHGHoMc

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Freddie Robinson Jr. Date: 12/5/2018 11:05:00 AM Deeply sensual cerebral poetry, LLJ!! Nuff said! Love and more love always. Login to Reply Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 12/5/2018 11:51:00 AM An attempt at Anais Nin, collaborating with Georgia O'Keeffe, but nowhere near that level of excellence. Thank you FR Jnr.

Winged Warrior Date: 9/3/2018 10:33:00 AM Your poetry is out of this world...the Warrior loves it...love & light...^WW^...P.S please don't delete me... Login to Reply Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 9/4/2018 7:23:00 AM Thank you. x Winged Warrior Date: 9/4/2018 5:38:00 AM I never joke about poetry, my friend...I may joke about everything else, but not poetry...your poetry, to me (the grasp, style and feel) is beyond space and time...you bring us to lands unseen and words unheard...NEVER EVER say your poetry is crap...our poetic words come from a higher state of consciousness...as we dip into the streams of ethereal dimensions...most poets including you, are eternal scribes from divine awareness...bringing forth messages of love and lack of love...heavens and hells ( Purgatory ) lol...for history shall always be known thru the words of poets and philosophers...songs and great books included...the word was the first creation...your words are powerful...no matter what you write...be proud my friend...love & eternal light...John aka Winged Warrior...^WW^ Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 9/3/2018 3:05:00 PM Thanks Angel of Light. Leanne Lovejoy-Burton Date: 9/3/2018 3:04:00 PM While some of my writing is crap...possibly the majority of my poems... I get it, if you have a silent joke to yourself (this said to the gilded Morai here). However, I quite like this poem, because it is lush (to me) and reflects the love affair between O'Keeffe and Stieglitz, who could be any other set of highly charged lovers in our world today, yesterday or in the future. Some 'poets' in these 'esteemed pages' in the consomme, need to understand that it is not good nor funny to disrespect/troll another's poem, unless the poem is purposefully funny. Morning while I consider you a friend, you're in Purgatory for the time being, enjoy.