Best Stalks Poems

Lurking in the darkest shadows,
she looks for one of us to hound,
trying to catch a little glimpse
as she staggers along and limps

Spittle and drool keeps dripping
from yellow teeth and snarling lips.
She whines and hunches her back
picking out one of us to attack.

Alone because she's made...

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On steep slopes
Ice picks break
Crow swears...

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I see you there, lurking in the shadows of deceit.
You rear your ancient head to strike and oh your prey tastes sweet.

Demonic grin, the damage done, your poison pulses hot.
Hell bent on our destruction, your vengeance waning not.

Your venom goads in cycles, each day another...

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Karma why stalk me?
what crime have i committed
to deserve this wraith...

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Death stalks me
I sense his eyes upon me
I hear his footsteps follow
And I feel his cold breath upon my neck

Death stalks me
I will not try to run
I’ll walk this path I’ve always walked
A path now hardened by these weary years

Death stalks me
I will not try...

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Besotted winged pollinators
roistering barrage drowned
amidst general insectivorous cacophony
indistinct auditory signals communicated

intermingled with bounteous wafting fragrance
midwifed edenic floral pullulation
sensate admixture viz colored spectrum
amidst unrehearsed extemporaneous

orchestral suite bedded lambs
amorous ewe man like bleating songs
nature all aflutter actively socially vociferating
profuse living color rainbow pastiche

teeming soundgarden smorgasbord
cornucopia ignites mordent...

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The sequestered plots of green
the rice shoots sway in the wind
overcast sky remains strangely still
ominous signs of a heavy downpour
that may flood the crop field
washing away the green shoots
watery grave stretching to the horizon.

The rain falling off and on
bringing relief to the dry season
filling the...

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His head droops
listless mid-day
Waves of heat
Collar damp
shirt clings
Seconds drag
Minutes, eternities
Knees rain perspiration
Rivulets of sweat 
in between the lines
His pen, heavy
ink drains
eyelids heavy
slumber stalks him...

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dry stalks wither bent
remembering flowering
melon lips part...

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Nurtured into a budding bloom
My hands are busy, they start and soon
Shake with blue; white; doves intone
Bones, body brown with eyes that drone
Like tiny gashes sewn up by hand
Tempered temper: fueled and fanned

Dripping dew from simple soil
Bead and bend, like drops of oil
Slick, smooth and...

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Moonless, the night pastes itself
onto an imaginary sky.

Cats crouch.
Under-bush nibblers in their bolt holes
whisker speak,
as trembling senses crawl
into a skin-tight stillness.

A cloud scatters
shredding threads of perception.

A lamp-lit moon glow
peers through a momentary window,
sees the swishing tail,
the twitching interim paused
in apprehension.

A tablue is caught
in the creeping...

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Just electrocute my body
Just electrocute your body
Justice knows that we are one body.

Because the universe stopped breathing,
My body is glowing, transmuting
glow'n dark 
towards a lost lowing, a low yellow spark
sucking in
Everything,
Everything tainted; indiscriminate fire,
I desire to be one and two but I shall cut
And make...

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Fear stalks dwellers of illusion
Man’s afraid of blinking
Stagnation cause of confusion
Humanity sinking

Awareness self-aware
Side steps each ego snare
As love with love does pair

Heart balks
Fear stalks

03-May-2022
Quietus ...

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Do the dancing  shadows of the swaying trees
make me grasp that all the shrilling fowls
have gone to rest and dusk will increase fears...
not until a stomping phantasmal image prowls!

A swift phantom stalks me,
I worry that it'll harm me;
if phantoms incessantly haunt
and infuse fear in...

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Making sense of it all…
  our grandest myth

Wisdom born of age,
  bleeds from youth’s betrayal

Questions drying unvarnished,
  naked meanings

Darker darks reface the cliff,
  edges sharper cut

Two images, clearer than before,
  preying in deadly contrast
  
As wonder divides the day,
...

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