Best Sphinx Poems

Her feline grace reclined, 
triumph ruled in Her eyes -
Many sought the blue flamed tryst 
in shaded groves they court with lies.

These men fell power...

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SPHINX STONE 

I am Sphinx Stone
Sun stationed statue
silent sculptured synoptic 
not marble or granite 
nor black tourmaline or
crystal sapphire quartz
vortex for Void actualising 
sacred amber...

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"At the Seat of the Catacombs of Amygdala"



 
"...the curse ruled from the underground down by the shore
And their hope grew with a hunger...

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Frightend children under the baobab
Of elders discourse playing
At the deep edge of rites
Of passages
With no Atlantic dream.

There is a beauty here
Before the other world began
Forgetting...

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There is a bloom of October
born of autumn's mauve harvest sweat,
her roots reach into the reason of passion
her skin smells of love's honest heat
and her...

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a new riddle for the Sphinx

concerns terrorist high jinks

when our free-world countries blink

does bin Laden wink?



*For John Freeman’s Dodoitsu contest...

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As I paddled the river Nile
I met a monstrous crocodile. 
She smiled at me enticingly.   
I smiled deferentially.  
Through large white teeth...

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Spawn of the arcane, glutted, she sprawls upon the sands 
of mythos. As victims, star-crossed lovers, outcasts,
we have all seen the traces of these nether...

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Galloping within the nights of her innocence
he raced around the field fire chasing the heat of equine glee,
the horn of his head, a wizard's weapon...

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When When Then Yoga

When
Your downward dog is barking and
Your cat pose is meowing and
Your tree pose is swaying and
Your cow pose is mooing and
Your cobra...

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PRESENCE

This cat of mine
A presence
This particular cat
Others     some     have it
People too    but  ...

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Golden Sphinx on its wings, 
soaring high, soaring high,
smouldering smoke all around,
flying to azure sky.

Gleaming white, the horses neigh
victory be our desire!
strike the cymbals, draw...

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The flotilla of the ivory-varnished sailing clouds, 
gliding across the cerulean sky of serenading spring,
turned into the menacing fleet of sudden scare. 
Its shadow of...

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Lying here on the warm sands, 

Too exhausted to pen a thought.

Listening to my camel's breath,

Whilst reaching for the stars,

I clutch your cherished gift.

My most...

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behold pyramids timeless, grand
sentinels, silent and wise
curators of ancient souls
ancient mysteries locked inside

in solitude they stand
in desert, mystic land
piercing crimson, golden sky
great pyramids, looted tombs

protected...

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