Song of the Succubus
...Another long night with the Succubus
Too long you have haunted my dreams
A temptress, a shrew, a wraith through and through
That wallows in glee at my screams
Your fiery gaze will blin...
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Categories:
entomb, fantasy,
Form: Rhyme
Not Good Enough
...Abstract ideas flitter about in my brain
like butterflies navigating a stiff August breeze.
I try unifying them into something,
a patchwork quilt of grandiose dreams
showcasing profound thought...
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Categories:
entomb, confidence, symbolism,
Form: Free verse
Partial recognition
...Each realm we visit is a dream template,
wherein our essence is cloaked in a form,
that memory erased, we may tempt fate,
our lifeline at all times, touch of love warm.
Mistaken we’re only this b...
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Categories:
entomb, spiritual,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Wanderer, Part III, translation of the ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
...The Wanderer, Part III
The wise man contemplates these ruins,
considers this dark life soberly,
remembers the blood spilled here
in multitudes of battles,
then says:
“Where is the horse no...
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Categories:
entomb, loss, sorrow, time, travel,
Form: Free verse
Earth's Eulogy Unread
...I lift and rise to being chased,
pops half-way, till full, beamed round-faced,
a fire host heightened its facade,
casting daylight shadows abroad.
Cool Earth plunged hot by its keep...
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Categories:
entomb, eulogy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter
Koilon
...Blavatsky said space is God
but pause we her give a nod,
consider: where is God not?
Contemplate thus, be self-taught.
Wisdom Leadbeater affirmed
and Annie Besant confirmed;
koilon: a term c...
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Categories:
entomb, mystery, space, spiritual,
Form: Jueju
What do they know
...None are perfect…we all fall short. With this in mind, let us be mindful of ‘how’ we ‘correct’ a fellow pilgrim as we journey home. Remember, every individual’s walk with God is different. No two are...
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Categories:
entomb, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Invested
...A peeping eye, like pendulum, swinging through the keyhole.
Just to pass the time.
It's a curious thing.
Flicks transfixed betwixed the clicks of the ticks of the clock as it shifts.
What is it s...
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Categories:
entomb, dark,
Form: Free verse
WINTER
...Winter,time of Persephone's doom
Plants die when Pluto her does entomb
Up on earth Demeter weeps
And her seasonal vigil keeps
With Pluto's spell over and broken
Life on earth will again be ...
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Categories:
entomb, angst, lust, pain, seasons,
Form: Couplet
Doublethink Beliefs
...Beliefs doublethink
or else we will sink
in gloom
and soul’s light will shrink,
so concepts rethink
and groom
head and heart to link,
allowing love’s blink
some room.
Let us not presume
...
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Categories:
entomb, culture, religion,
Form: Rhyme
A Sailor Lost
...Oh Sleepless night oh Glory be
The stealth of nature burdens thee
As winter washes o'er the stones
Your cold caress doth sear my bones
An unfurled sail on straining yard
The banshee howls, its b...
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Categories:
entomb, death, god, loneliness, natural
Form: Rhyme
Bloom
...no matter the days i tried,
i will be empowered by words i entomb.
no matter the days i cried,
i will be devoured by tears i consume.
no matter the days i dried,
i will not coward; i w...
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Categories:
entomb, analogy, beauty, courage, deep,
Form: Lyric
Nightshade
...Femme fatale nightshade bloom
Lustrous pomes sweetly entomb
Heady pungent bouquet
Remedy lover’s grave betray
Come hither, ye toxic potpourri
Banish infernal memory
Florid amethyst grace
All...
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Categories:
entomb, farewell, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Eccentric Mints - 150 Varieties
...1. Abolish Mints
2. Abut Mints
3. Accomplish Mints
4. Accouter Mints
5. Acknowledge Mints
6. Ada Mints
7. Adjust Mints
8. Admonish Mints
9. Adorn Mints
10. Advance Mints
11. Advertise Mints...
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Categories:
entomb, humor, word play,
Form: List
The Director
...The Director
By Sy Roth
The directors--
For want of a nail
They were not wanting
So many nails,
A cache of nails
To drive into their coffins
Paid in j...
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Categories:
entomb, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
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