Cryptograms
The solutions for
extremely hard to
solve cryptograms is a
sprinkle of
tap water.
Voodoo cryptograms
were the mirrors
alleviating all that is
bred of elementary nature
having spaked in tones
that could quake the bones
fashioning humanity’s frame
furnished by deathly tales
cerebral
scrabble babble
is coughed
into
empty couloirs
words lie
disassembled
on jaded
crossword
squares
dumb logic
acronyms
spill
from your tongue
with the intensity
of angel falls
flooding
the tower
of babel s
non existent
dungeon
taut and terse
phrases
are spit
into my mouth
clogging
my esophagus
with the
sweet bile
of your
bitter love
for me
twisted explanations
mixing
with fragments
of admitted guilt
speak
in reverse
similar
to the
uncanny
way
we uttered
our final
wedding vows
do i
poke a spoon
into a puddle
of campbell s
alphabet soup
as I peruse
my leather bound
thesaurus and
nightmarishly
daydream
of you
and now
i m
beginning
to realize
that the
sole existence
of one s
warped sense
of commitment
fortunately
relies
on a duo s
consistent
use
of insensitive
verbal
cryptograms
during the
sharp and
neatly shredded
paper years
when
punctuation
and falsified
adjectives
were hardly
ever
necessary
you love i
Author's Note:
Punctuation marks and capitalization of words
were deliberately omitted for poetic effect.
In a hush billowed as a spreading cape,
From the pallid throat of some vampire countess,
As poised upon the battlements, ululating to wolves below,
Breaking silence, breathing spells into the wilderness.
Her tongue moves sweetly, expounding syllables
That cream soft and claret smooth lap mental shores,
Translated in perceptions, belief system decoding,
Lilting, caressing and whispering: “I am yours.”
The language of the heart, ancient as the rock,
Ancient as the stars whose light burns bright yet cold,
Deciphered in desirous cryptograms, music of the night,
And a charge that fires believing in all that men are told.
To taste and dream the parables, to taste her tongue,
To communicate with lips on loin and breast,
And draw forth from the mouth, the spillage of her sex,
Declaring love undying, and all else laid to rest.
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