The Scorpion's Touch
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“The Scorpion’s Touch”
Under glass
the sound cuts out sharp
just like under water
and we run out of breath
like insects running around
frantically out of time
we are ...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, humanity, muse, mystery,
Form: Free verse
The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes
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"The Beetlejuice Past Your Eyes"
“Well, where would you suggest I commence? Should we begin with the concept of pasteurize?”
This said to the earnest listener, who views the prot...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, dark, light, muse,
Form: Narrative
Oh, Joy! At the Night Sky
...Oh, joy! at the night sky
And the wonder it declares.
How flirtatious! How they flare –
The many stars on high!
There's Castor and Pollux
And Rigel and Betelgeuse
And look! – Aldebaran bids a...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, night, sky, stars,
Form: Rhyme
Once In a Lifetime
...That big orange star,
on the top left of Orion
Could burst into supernova,
at any given time
Betelgeuse is the name,
and soon it’s going up in flames
Will be seen within our daylight,
for...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, allusion, spiritual, star,
Form: Rhyme
Corteez - True Fiction
...There is no heaven I know for sure,
met an alien who has been on tour,
he has blitzed himself from Corteez,
a planet around star Betelgeuse,
he has no body like you or me,
a hazy presence you ca...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, 3rd grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Far Away
...When life throws shades of gray
and darkness hides the day...
When rain seems to make me oh, not gay
for it wilts my blooms to decay~
When wild winds blow my gateway
and take all my darling bud...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, love, star,
Form: Free verse
Angel Light
...I stood in awe as she alighted like a bird upon some branch,
Belisha beacon to the abyss bound clochard.
Bonfire for uncanny scion adrift,
ignited by her
incandescent eyes.
Chanteuse of Arca...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, angel, art, beautiful, deep,
Form: Prose Poetry
August 25th 2019 Playing Round of Bouncy Bouncy Broke Bed
...August 25th, 2019 playing round of bouncy bouncy broke bed
Just before stroke o' midnight
slated date above zee wife,
i.e. the missus, aboot
same width and height
(quite an oompa loompa),
she...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
I Met God and He Was a F Ucking Psychopath
...i once woke up and ate the bones in a tomb deep in
the sunken eyes of a faded god
the faded eyes of a sunken god
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sunken
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Categories:
betelgeuse, god, religion, spiritual, surreal,
Form: Free verse
My Betelgeuse Supernova- Pyg's Whisper X Rose Bleue
...I was a kid when I looked up at the sky
I was a kid when I pointed my finger at that star
I was a kid when I made that solemn vow that night
I was just a little kid with a big dream
A small body ...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, child, childhood, dream, loneliness,
Form: Prose Poetry
Laika
...Into the solar system
Outreaching myself
Intense grief, mourning
Into cake and wedding dress
Galvanized poorly, the rust
About to topple into ochre
Coated stardust glittering
As we discover ...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, me, universe,
Form: Free verse
Word Morph – Moses To Nigel
...Christie MOSES is a great poetess.
Her pen MOVES with great finesse.
For her MORES in poetic verse,
Are like MOREL mushrooms immersed;
Sautéed MOTEL hot delicacies;
Ice cold HOTEL ch...
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Categories:
betelgeuse, imagination
Form: Couplet