Best Palladium Poems

this poet’s page suddenly turns black
stars appear

am i standing on the earth?

the sky like the palladium
of the phantom of the opera

a masquerade of candleshine

i wouldn’t be surprised to see angels
descending 
each holding a solitary beacon

they say stars sing —
i applaud thee soprano-coloratura

star-soubrette whimsically winks
then spurs...

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   "I have seen and heard the vibrancy of dreams, 
and the way 
of the crossings-through the ills 
and through the barriered things."

A fleeting spark that perceives, 
I, have seen it envision the winds, 
be a corridor to a world...

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Lying in an augur's aviary..
Reneging on my virtues,so credulous..
The feying fay being taken to 
bury,
I see things called ambigous.


Slowly fading odour of scantity..
In Attica, end of augustan age.
Wings of Azreal, the martinet 
deity,
I see these, with espied rage.


Hydaes casting spell every 
night..
The abysmal wizard of...

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From north, south, east and west 
This is the town to beat the rest,
Where history and present blend
As through its many streets you wend. 

Where once a monastery so great
From every view would dominate,
Where Pilgrims came to pray and sing
To venerate their martyred king. 

Within...

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Brutus Iulius Trois page 08 

Suddenly stillness all sounds silenced  the last pirate slain.
From the bowels of the Tireme came cheers that grew louder
From men newly freed from their enslavement  to the Thracian oars
Phyrgians, Scythians, Mysians and  Lycians
all hittite clansmen,  kinsmen...

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For V.R.S.
 
A bend, a pirouette--a flower's dance
reflects in his shadowed eyes, and in her
thorned steps, the atrophying force rooted and redoubling.
Promise me, he breathes behind a teacup
while she is encapsulated in a globe of fading light.
The briny-dotted atlases sit reverent,
assembled beside the living-
room's songs...

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Sometimes some lost and lonely housewife I know well and knew put glossy
lip stick on and subtle pastel shade mascara plucked his brows and shaved
the pits of desperation the dust and grime the secretive desire longing
He cleaned the oven layered peeled the onion emerged in...

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One day just like that she began.  A little smudge no bigger than God's thumb.
Forgetting old bones and scarred memories she was born one early March. 
A lion in a baby carriage roaring and carrying on as if she had just been 
flapped to...

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Phosphorus sugar
It’s glowing in the water
Supporting all life

All will be coming from what we start now
That walks the earth and the ground which we plow

Continuing mission that cannot end
Getting from all we receive and we send

Core, mantle, crust, valleys, mountains, and seas
Gales, hurricanes, tornadoes, a...

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good morning
The optimization of algorithmic formulae in a lake is creating a custard like vision. But visions are often akin to vases but clearly cleaned out by tackling the hooded fish by dive bombing using legs, arms and upper torso. Wow. Such a feat. But...

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"If in the manner of men, I have fought with beast at Ephesus,
What advantage is it unto me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat
Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die...." ~I Corinthians~
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Throughout the vast regions

Outside of Dreamendon

Atop the parched soils...

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"If in the manner of men, I have fought with beast at Ephesus,
What advantage is it unto me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat
Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die...." ~I Corinthians~
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Throughout the vast regions

Outside of Dreamendon

Atop the parched soils...

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"If in the manner of men, I have fought with beast at Ephesus,
What advantage is it unto me? If the dead do not rise, let us eat
Drink and be merry, for tomorrow we shall die...." ~I Corinthians~
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Throughout the vast regions

Outside of Dreamendon

Atop the parched soils...

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Marginalized middle finger people
moving upwardly mobile
on a quality-of-life escalator going always down

Mall pallbearers for the palladium pocketeers,
(them who bring forth weekly pocket tears)
Three-piece suit gator claws with Wall Street wolf ears

Kiss-the-ring finger people
trying to climb up the societal brass rung
Getting pyramid food chain hung —...

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A wandering canal, mirroring serenity, the face of an emerging season,
Lush, sprawling, verdant, frolicking hills;
A pastoral sight, wandering through an idyllic region.

Journeying on paths of free will,
Surrounded by fields of hopeful golden seed,
Lush, sprawling, verdant, frolicking hills.

Boughs of blossoms burst, and freed,
Mossy carpeted paths, moseying...

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