Best Apogee Poems

hibernating pain 
     awakes from slumber
         a long rusty nail
plunging deeper and deeper,
               piercing
  into the heart's chamber,
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No longer ...
          Are my eyes my own.
     My ribs thrum with a drunken heart,
               Your drug, molten...

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Zenith of mount
Apex of all
No peak too high
No aim too tall
He reaches, he strains;
He wears himself thin. 
He toils, he strives; 
His drive to be perfection's kin. 

O mighty indeed
But the goal causes fall. 
Prodigious intellect 
But not wisdom for one, save all. 
He hath...

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A wedge of moon 
persists in a cobalt sky,
as light fractures itself, 
splaying its fingers
through the reluctant dark, 
soon to be gone.
Black lace filaments 
on licorice black trees
dangle their dainty digits 
in a waning wind.
Hushed and shy is dawn 
as she adjusts her
flamenco skirts 
to...

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: the highest point. 

Oh 
dear 
sweet summit
Your touch enraptures 
the soul of me

beloved pinnacle
Of mine affections
so strongly standing 

Fall not to the sea 
Lest I should follow 
By way of deepest sleep

Should this sweet apex be no more~
Whose hearts shall then beat? 
Should it...

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Should tardy relief take full years more
To grace fallen visages with angst taut, 
Let kind nature her multiplied joys hone, 
And gild final grins past art's fickle fault.

May saddest souls that now fret most
Gleam with heaven's grandest succor, 
No more numbed by fear's fake ghost;...

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Swirl above beyonds
maximum overdrive change
the chaos of time...

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Tomorrow will come today 
As I look behind to see past my second sight
Tomorrow is now as yesterday is future tense
I linger in this unknown moment as the universe 
Tilts on its axis as my mind fumbles in the dark
The planets aline along the horizon’s...

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