Best Scuttled Poems

Musee

See where it burns in Titian's brush
subsides along the cool Aegean stone,
or twists in the fist-faces of Rome,
our only mystery--flesh.

There, uncertainty ends, or does it...

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It was the bronzed bell of a tinseled Ocean ship.
Until destiny was scuttled by a fiery water witch.  
In time, it became the haunting...

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Have you ever seen a catterfairy?
Many found her to be quite scary,

She came out of her cocoon others said to soon
And only part of her...

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Love is to be passionate and on fire,
fueling everlasting bonds of trust.
Not empty promises of a liar,
distorting love in the pursuit of lust.

You feel the...

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she ...

gently shivered ...
venetian-sieved ribbons of moonlight
wanly striping her face ... 
the words struggled on her lips
then ever-so-softly, dripped like maple syrup
and found purchase in...

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Urges ushered Est’bel out of her abode –
a cottage cobbled together from cobwebs and clapboard – 
and she scuttled forth,
her nesty hair tousled
by a leaf-laced...

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Near the cliff's edge he stood
poised and composed. Wind swept dust
whirling salt mingling thyme,
tickling his half-clogged nose.
 
Seagulls screeching,
gliding, soaring, diving,
harbingers of electric storms.
 
A...

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I think back on how you'd kiss my nose, 
and I'd laugh; this makes no sense at all.
Our life was once a merry-go-round,
a true paradise,...

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Fittingly dubbed “The Pearl of the Orient Seas”
an archipelago of 7,641 islands, the Philippines
majestically sits in vast waters between
Pacific Ocean and South China Sea.

Named after...

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Gunfight in old Abilene

With his hat drawn way down, reins loose in his hands
His horse sweating pints, the sun burning down
The dust from the trail...

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Faking feelings is what you do best
while touting trust and all its values.
And adopting hope's many guises,
you deny vulnerability.

Loneliness divides reality
into darkening shades of despair.
And...

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Once young and naïve,
I fell for your charms.
And yet, now, I must
abandon your arms.

I will tiptoe out
when the night turns black.
And scurry away 
without looking...

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her joints, 
creaking plank wood,
nails, 
shellacked, splintered,
dark
long
hair, 
sargasso sickly sweetened
blue crab scuttled,
lips both
brown foam'd,
in
tidal moaning,
her boardwalk secrets
fallen,
on 
her beach head,
sand dollars,
insteps
ebb, 
sand bars exposed,
while 
gulls...

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There was a bongoman, and he dreaming
Where the rock hovered above the blue sea
Looked through the white mist of a dew drenched morning
And clenched tight...

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IF EVER I HAD A COUNTRY : LXXIV

IF ever I had a country proud of its sacred Soul Patrie
And if ever by a long shot...

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