Under the curtain of night, where stars murmur ancient enigmas
Under the curtain of night, where stars murmur ancient enigmas,
Dwell the true metaphysicians, hidden among excess and hedonism,
Through the extension of senses, through the martyrdom of their desires,
They uncover our nothingness, the abyss camouflaged by life's ephemeral feast.
In the dance of shadows and light, among the whispers of forbidden dreams,
The hedonist sacrifices his soul on
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Categories:
enigmas, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Romance
Rowing on frozen waters.
Onwards to a new year.
Moments to share with.
Abandonned torments.
Nothing to regret for.
Commitments to start with.
Enigmas to be descovered.
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Categories:
enigmas, adventure, allegory, allusion, deep,
Form: Acrostic
Enigmas
I taste your enigmas
bitter—then sweet—
I unravel them with
wonder in my lips
as surety black
paradox puzzlement
brightens—opens—
birthing color.
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Categories:
enigmas, art, beautiful, beauty, change,
Form: Free verse
The Three Enigmas of Turandot
The three enigmas of Turandot
The well of souls run deep in fabled lands of old.
Of China's ancient dynasty and the lost Great Tartary,
a ballad of love and loss that must be told.
The Emperor's daughter, Turandot, a Princess of ice and fire,
tho' haunted by an ancestral maiden, the Princess' Lo-u-Ling.
Captured, raped, and killed by invading
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Categories:
enigmas, crush, longing, love, moon,
Form: Narrative
Dark Enigmas
Now greets night's empty void the moon's pale light,
so cool and opaline it gives delight.
We watch you pass the distant western bar
where you find rest 'til dawn ignites with fire.
The bright and distant stars each know the way
of holding our eyes rapt to their display.
We view spellbound each rich, ethereal show.
Soon from the east the
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Categories:
enigmas, moon, night, stars, ,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Enigmas
Hidden within Precambrian rock
Lies "a tiny mystery"
A veiled secret in the dark
A puzzling piece of history
A radioactive photograph
A polonium halo possibly
Buried in a cryptic curtain
Its secret may elude us
But what's certain
Should we presume to solve this riddle
We'll be hurled back in the middle
Of more dilemmas or enigmas endlessly
Published in the 2012 International Who's Who in
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Categories:
enigmas, science,
Form: Rhyme