Best Forbidding Poems

I swim to an unknown rocky strand, marooned by the captain's hand,
Up on the barren shore I stand, up on the wave-washed sand.
The sandpipers dance a saraband; could I like the birds withstand?
Held by the bars of a coral band, alone in a rocky land....

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Standing knee deep in water 
invoking the sun god 
going upward phenomenally.

I was learning to forget 
the edicts of a fake lord.
Would not recognize-

the dirty tricks of a godman 
in the garb of a hermaphrodite.
One day he was ... 

One day he was not. The...

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The man growls,
forbidding death to take hold,
his mate on his arm,
flailing in the cold,
rushing away from the darkness,
the best they could,
avoiding death as they should,
he wanted her alive,
but he would abandon her,
if she continued slowing him down,
as they headed for hire ground,
it’s every man for...

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Long forbidding fingers dig deep in,
Appearing black contrast on pale skin,
The puppeteer directs your gaze,
A brief view but the vision stays,
Ruinous renderings plague the brain,
His dark imprint now shall remain....

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