50 Words For Poe: the Dolphin
"50 Words for Poe: The Dolphin"
Like Christmas
all come at once
So too, to the 5th Dimension
a motley crew had arrived
They were all now
One Flew Over the Cuckoo Nest
comfortably ensconced
all behaving like
well-behaved fallen angels -
for once
They had parked themselves at a table
in the belly of
The Dolphin
Land of the Ochre
Here, where life
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Categories:
50 words, freedom, muse,
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Blue Skies
"50 Words for Poe: Blue Skies"
She was dressed to kill
Hot like a blazing Australian Bushfire
She crackled with heat as she
sashayed through the entrance
like Summer towards him,
Like she was painted in
Gold Lame Mesh
Armour tight,
the fabric flimsy and
sensationally short
stretched over very special
killer covert agent curves
all long legs
Le Lido Crazy Horse
all the
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Categories:
50 words, adventure, freedom, fun, humorous,
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Winter
"50 Words for Poe: Winter"
Hey, you know how it goes
when you had your first kiss
Poetry kind of gets you between
the gonads with that kinda shizz
Yep, you’re lost on the swell when it
hits that frizz
You just gotta hit the surf and
when the waves come for you
dive under the Effers
You’ll come out of the Lemonade, betya
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Categories:
50 words, adventure, fun, games,
Form: Romanticism
50 Words For Poe: the Woods
"50 Words for Poe: The Woods"
Close my eyes
All goes dark
then a small spark
the world opens
LIGHT
My woods
Dusk
Twilight
to
Dawn
to
DARK
to
LIGHT
There you are:
kinda frightened
kinda brave
kinda bring-it-on
kinda like your mumma
kinda f-u buddy
kinda you don't wanna cross this line with me you m'fker
Amongst it, waiting
for me
you-know-who
your .....
well, you can fill the lines in ....
kind of scared
but
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Categories:
50 words, love, magic, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Monkey Boy
"50 Words for Poe: Monkey Boy"
"VACANT" ...
You lie your head down on a soft pillow
in a grey room
They say you have the Key
But it’s Hell,
you’ve done the work
You’re not forgiven
You’re not free
Someone on the other side
wants to lie down
there is no soft pillow
She’s very tired
But not over easy
Sunnyside Up
That’s not easy
Sunnyside Down
could
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Categories:
50 words, freedom,
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Strangelove
"50 Words for Poe: Strangelove"
Strangelove was waiting
in Holdnerness
He was anticipating
with a certain glee
The “Arrival” of
Ms Bon Vivant, her sharpness
and sharing conversation
over Kumquat Jam, Scones and
clotted cream at High Tea,
near the High Flyers’ Billiards Room,
Castle Skipsea
Communication decoded with her
cracked him like a whip
Got him all stirred up like
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Categories:
50 words, adventure, freedom, fun,
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Heathrow
"50 Words for Poe: Heathrow"
They landed at Heathrow,
Columbus in tow on tight leash
had not frisked the stewardess’ skirts
as they to’d and thro’d past him down the aisle,
like Fembots, bullets pointing all in a row
He sat there like a good boy and wagged his tail
tongue hanging out panting very fast never not slow
The
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Categories:
50 words, adventure, dark, freedom, fun,
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Immaculate
"50 Words for Poe: Immaculate"
Love Immaculate
Souls now in sync
Souls merge in time
Powerful Immaculate
Hunger comes fast
Hunger for Love Immaculate
Hunger for Pure
The Power to Be
The Power to Be
Free
Baskervilles was never a Raven Girl
Her name was Foxglove
She ran the Fells
She ran the Blue Hollow Hills
She ran the Lost Lovers Woods
Asylum was not Home, this was understood
To touch a
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Categories:
50 words, dark, freedom, judgement, love
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Numbers
“50 Words for Poe: Numbers”
He was given a number
He counted the days
just number after number
Finally arrives the day he is free
The Nightmare never ends
He is not free to be He
His heart sits in a cell of a kind
But he doesn’t want "kindness"
He wants what was lost
What was lost is far behind him
He thinks what was
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Categories:
50 words, dark, forgiveness, freedom, friendship
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Baskervilles
"50 Words for Poe: Baskervilles"
Baskervilles
was loping over graves
digging dirt for bones
sniffing evidence of dead souls
counting tomes
it flayed time & bled the gut
of it’s own black soul
ate it inside out
howling,
in fast pursuit,
the dog was a Dam b****
She’d been set out on the fells
to finally kill the soul of
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Categories:
50 words, dark, gothic, romance,
Form: Romanticism
50 Words For Poe: Eclipsed
"50 Words for Poe: Eclipsed"
Eclipse
Moon’s Silvery shadow
kisses Sun’s Golden coronation
at the point where tame fear meets Wild’s strong divination
Moon’s Silvery shadow
melts the Sun’s Golden frown with cool blunderbust
at the point where lupin drinks luminous dew from her dusk
on a clean sheet magik strokes a new story with ever constant silent trust
Melts the Sun’s
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Categories:
50 words, magic, moon, romance, sun,
Form: Romanticism
50 Words For Poe: Seagulls
"50 Words for Poe: Seagulls"
He was an Albatross
She taught him Seagulls
Another language
LAX was nothing on
Heathrow, decision made
She had decided to catch
a flight over to old Blighty instead
Haunt the Hell
out of some cross-dressing
poet who had taken a
break for a spell
he’d gone all troppo in his head
Yeah, she’d go ring his
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Categories:
50 words, adventure, mystery, romance,
Form: Free verse
50 Words For Poe: Keys
"50 Words for Poe: Keys"
He threw the car keys over to her
“Freedom keys babe”, he purred
“Silver Lady’s my girl” she said,
This he understood.
“Freedom keys babe, let’s blow this joint, make a getaway out of this stinkin' Hood.”
"Sure," she said, glancing over at him, throwing flames from her eyes,
"Toto stealing witches can stick to their
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Categories:
50 words, adventure, mystery, romance,
Form: Romanticism
50 Words For Poe: Shark
"50 Words for Poe: Shark"
The Shark’s name was Bruce
he liked to drive with his head
hanging out the car
mouth wrapped around a
Montecristo Dantes Cuban Cigar
They met in Wichita
Room 101 in the
Hotel Cicero
“Hey babe,” he said
“I know,” she said
“You wanna marry me and
you wouldn’t be dead for quids”
“Hey babe,” he kissed her
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Categories:
50 words, adventure, dark, journey, love,
Form: Romanticism
50 Words For Poe: Cicero
"50 Words for Poe: Cicero"
On reflection
she should have used
Capone’s colt .38
which had been offered ...
at a price,
but the knife did
the trick just the same
She used it more than twice
Straight through
the Heart
of our anti-hero
in Room 101
Hotel Cicero
Weapon of Choice: 6 inch Italian Stiletto
Instead of Alcatraz
she found herself
haunting Asylum 666
doin’ ghost time
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Categories:
50 words, adventure, dark, mystery, romance,
Form: Burlesque
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