MAESTRO
...MAESTRO
He knew all along that it would be pressure
Not just to conduct but bring out the best
This brass band from a mining community
Trying to keep it alive, almost their duty
An almost for...
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Categories:
cockatrice, confidence, music, passion,
Form: Rhyme
Imagining Dragons
...For fun we played a mind-game,
deciding to imagine a perfect dragon.
She put together a plump pink dragon
that blew rainbow bubbles
and smelled of minty chewing gum.
Mine was an iridescent c...
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Categories:
cockatrice, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Head of Rooster Heart of Dragon
...He came into the barnyard and looked around
Choosing a mate, who squawked and went underground
Okay, he said. I’ll take that one, her sister.
She screeched and fluttered, not happy with this miste...
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Categories:
cockatrice, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Reluctant Dawn
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Hesitant awakening ...
misty veil reveals another
24 sixty
incremental uncertainty
Retinal unwillingness
Indecision guides each fretful,
retrograde step
Nocturnal blurred moral ...
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Categories:
cockatrice, age, emotions, fear, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Right Hand Man
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Coulda been
the Hand of the Lying King,
if I didn’t tell the truth so much
Coulda been
Caesar’s right hand man,
if I was kill willing
to have a shogun trigger touch
Coulda been...
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Categories:
cockatrice, allusion, history, power, truth,
Form: Narrative
Belly Full of Lies
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Listen to what the snake charmers say:
We be sulfuric scaly bellies,
flicking poisonous tongues on the telly
Idoly speak pure Orwellie —
Down is up ... famine be a feast sup
Tell ...
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Categories:
cockatrice, allegory, metaphor, truth, wisdom,
Form: Burlesque
Serpentine Shadow Dance
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First you lemming sway to the left,
then you ostrich sway to the right
No straight talk movement is motive necessary
on Leper Rabbit Foot Devil’s Night
Now a-moral slug limbo very Di...
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Categories:
cockatrice, dance, spiritual, wisdom, word
Form: Burlesque
Masks of the Season
...She took a photo of flowers
She did not see the demon hiding there.
He read the letters in the spaces between the words,
Said it "Cald," or "Child?"
He sees the spaces between the objects
T...
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Categories:
cockatrice, magic,
Form: Free verse
Magic Beans
...Magic Beans of Many Colors
In a magical fairyland I reside,
herons, toucans, rainbow lorikeets, peacock angels,
hummingbirds, ostrich, even a cockatrice
of magnificent colors that harmonize.
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Categories:
cockatrice, fantasy,
Form: Free verse