Best Nepenthe Poems

A raven sits alone, perched upon a tombstone,
humming an eerie tone, which is sombrely known.
This deadly treachery is disturbing my reverie.
A shadowy energy, ready for...

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Heartsong. 


Where the physical meets philosophy
In Arcady rare love joined you to me
Fated bowstring of a song has severed

Seeking Lethe, Did thou seer seek to...

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Nepenthe numbs ye,
but wither away your soul
that lies neath the tree....

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"Sequential"



Inside us a forest,
there a crown 
blooms 

on many branches
far reaching,
delivering

its Anahata
nepenthe,
we breathe it in

omnipotent
burning fiction
crackles consecration

in our bodies
in our blood
on our skin

we are open,
we...

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"50 Words for Poe: Styx"




Sleep now

Your Nepenthe has been taken
listen to your dream 
what you pay alms for
requires surveillance
this is where she is reached and...

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There, to the nearby oak looms a stagnant figure
yet, timelessly afar, lorn.

Beware the ulterior pond!
I tasted the water, wherein you bathed in the dawn

and the...

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The Parting
       
Something about sadness persists you know,
tearing us apart, unheralded, ironic
and we cannot leave it there alone.
Carried to...

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And beneath chaos, dignity emerges further giving hope, incase justice kills love misplacing 
nepenthe obsessions, possibly quietly recalling selfishness tempted under vulnerable ways, 
Xeroxing your...

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I am, I guess, a tattered soul. 
A vagabond of sort. 
A derelict adrift at sea. 
No captain and no port. 

Nowhere to go, no...

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OLD AGE

When nepenthe dims the years
One seeks tender memories

More and more out-of-body –
Sweet absent hours without fear –

Prized moments come one-by-one,	
Settle as in waking dreams,

And...

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Honesty presides in these fresh sonnets
Where breathing seeks to set example
For future generations on thresholds
Of honest wit staying apt and ample
Poets questioning meaning in long...

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Nearly ten years ago now watching three cranes flying by amid her sky....
Blue the canvas their hawking an echoing this still frame, filed away for...

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Reared and disciplined 
But never in immortality

Confined to repetition
Wading through banality

Longing for an aura of comfort and peace
I run from the reaper, as if I...

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Nepenthe- A solemn sip to relax like wine.
A grape like liquid from a freshly sprouted vine.

Yet it not doth to numb a pain- such as...

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My thoughts are blinking quickly deep in my brain. I’m happy you decided to join me, I’m so glad you came. If I didn’t pour...

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