thinking about Fractured Fairytales
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written for the Ekphrasis contest on favorite album cover sponsored by Dilly Dally, I chose " fractured fairytales" by Blackbriar...
trapped in skeletal arms of the wolverine forest,
I crave rose-scents from the corpse crescent,
seeing through the portal of pained pupils,
written with cinder-gold between
lethal lines of nostalgic nightfall,
about sunsets woven in angst,
from stone-cold tears
s u p p r e s s e d
within crawling clouds before onyx rain…
and must I scribble sonnets of sorrow and hurt~
while aching to kiss the
poisoned lips of midnight?
for in your quivering verses of unrequited stars,
I taste lavender in tender musings,
I feel the liquid warmth of 4 a.m. thoughts,
I hear the flow of forsaken dreams
amidst this sky-cradled prison,
caging my silenced skin
from breathing beyond twigs of thorns,
suffocating me with inked love
and unbreakable longing,
the moon still knows
I cannot live
if I were to rise every dawn without
the mellifluous m u s i c
of twin flames
caressing the cashmere air
in soulful resonance,
as if there is no escape from destined darkness,
when love is a feathered fern in the weary wilderness,
painting a panorama of fractured fairytales
from fervent fingertips
of how, once upon a spring luna,
we built an amethyst-dusted home
and called it "l i f e"
whilst karma crippled the claws of time,
and still, your name I wear…
perhaps, one day,
I will be more than
a chained bride to misery and loneliness
married to ghosts of willows and oaks
crowned with cues of confusion
draped in mellow memories~
like a tree-mannequin awaiting
the truth of twilight, forever yours...
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