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Basilisk Poems - Poems about Basilisk

Premium Member From Death to Grave
...~Running~ death steps behind ~ don't stop to tell how close. Swallowing a clump of cacti. Throat skewers. Aubergine blood clots. Cough, life's wick smaller. Struggle effective so long ago, like ......

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Categories: basilisk, change, conflict, environment, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eurynome's the Three Graces
...Eurynome's great joy, the Graces of her womb, whose names transcend the tomb like Helen's, famed of Troy! Ah! Graces all enjoy: they fill earth's space and room, abhorring a......

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Categories: basilisk, extended metaphor, happiness, inspiration,
Form: Italian Sonnet



CapsandStems
...Home, even though a cozy cove sits secretly offshore, it takes a hope and a skip away from my lone abode. Terms with simple truths, they supply the groove. They mount the horse and leave the sunse......

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Categories: basilisk, hope, horse, house, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Eternity in Seven Acts
..."Eternity is the simultaneous whole, seen all at once. This is the character of eternity, and this what the past and future are in God." - Augustine of Hippo "Eternity is not t......

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Categories: basilisk, future, philosophy, psychological, universe,
Form: Blank verse
Wage
... In the vast expanse of forgotten time, the now balances on the strings of eternity, cryochron-ology of the doors held ajar by the pasts frozen wings, now in a great fla......

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Categories: basilisk, art,
Form: Rhyme



Trampling On Darkness
...Praying to the light Trampling the night's basilisk With its seven heads Crushing serpent and lion Trampling the legless dragon Through the light stream that crowned her This is a bussokusek......

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Categories: basilisk, animal, confidence, light, mythology,
Form: Other
Fading
..."Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more, in the leafless root there is no less" - Ralph Waldo Emerson I'm a sunflower, dipped in honey of ......

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Categories: basilisk, angst, dark, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Floating
...The people of this world are like the three butterflies in front of a candle's flame. The first one went closer and said:I know about love. The second one touched the flame lightly with his win......

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Categories: basilisk, absence, analogy, discrimination, love,
Form: Free verse
Reflections
...Some say they are dead or were never born. We know they exist because warm breath leaves marks on a wine glass, and when that breath looks back they see through us. In the basilisk......

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Categories: basilisk, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Never Born
...We know they exist because warm breath leave marks on wine glasses. In the basilisk black or bright glare we stare behind our eyes seeing them drift into life once more. As mind turns to......

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Categories: basilisk, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Basilisk's Support Group
...*Basilisk's Support Group* On the train to nowhere. Tracks leading to the end, of another bottle. Down goes the soupeur, knowing where the express leads thee. Remaining complacent in a......

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Categories: basilisk, anxiety, confusion, depression, drug,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Caim
... "Caim" Caim in time labyrinthine tale swallowed serpentine Caim in time heart kept secure in the central fortress mine Serpentine swallowed labyrinth......

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Categories: basilisk, love, magic, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse
Lusus Naturae
...The dark lake only buoys its own natatory denizens, it allows some to swim, some to glide, dip or delve, but those sombre waters pull down children seeing them only as the cloud spawn of alien sho......

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Categories: basilisk, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Undertow
...Your arsenal never seemed so weak when you showed up after countless weeks we didn't speak you were living in the moment Why does this tunnel light never seem to close? it leads me down this ......

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Categories: basilisk, abuse, addiction, break up,
Form: Rhyme
The Boy Who Lived
...Where magic thrives in peace, Yet no human ever beholds Of witches, wizards, wands, it is, A miraculous story that unfolds. He who mustn't be named, Power above all who desired His own life, in......

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Categories: basilisk, courage, fantasy, magic, power,
Form: Narrative

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