Byzantium
Byzantium
In August, the heat tastes of dust and desperation
the despot feels that soon a time will change
the power is but in the eyes of the general
The sun senses a mounting revolt, is prepared
will show no mercy but absorb the world in its inner core
where we can burn forever.
August is tired too, he the General gave
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Categories:
byzantium, betrayal, birthday, care, columbus
Form: Blank verse
Byzantium
Byzantium
It is August its heat taste of dust and desperation
The despot feels that soon time will change it will
Have to share with clouds and cooling wind.
For not, it has the power but in the eyes of his general
He senses a mounting revolt
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Categories:
byzantium, autumn, basketball, best friend,
Form: Blank verse
Headed For Byzantium
Headed for Byzantium
1989
With only sun and crawling mist around
You set sail for Byzantium, my love,
Your cargo was my angry words, your tears,
You carried our longing sighs and unspoken fears.
Ahoy! Wife of a wandering man
Cutting across dark seas and sorrows:
The winds whisper tales of my desire
While you wrestle phantoms in a lost empire.
With ancient chants and
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Categories:
byzantium, beauty, change, desire, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Onward To Byzantium
Onward to Byzantium
One stone
One
Thought
Mayan time
Circle
Of
Stone
Mound
Of
Sand
Return
As
Is
Pure
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Categories:
byzantium, allegory
Form: Epic
Byzantium —2
Long night will start the pincer movement;
pyrexia is rising.
Something like an extraterrestrial hand
digs deep in the mind to open the tomb
to unravel the tragedy of nuts and bolts
which could not fix
the mutation of the hour of death.
Dark blinking lashes of soul
measures the cliffs of silence
and then pours the hot red
vermilion in parted wisdom of
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Categories:
byzantium, adventure, allegory, angst, animals,
Form: I do not know?