Flower Gothic Poems

I'm a sinister shell, 
lost in bygone 
deepwaters of
gravity-less 
cerulean tears, 
that saturate 
molten sundrops, 
falling from 
zinc-plated skies, 
as heliophilic snow,
melts frosted 
memories in...

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I knew the damned
Descended from the angels yet locked in flight
Their utter beauty, deflated pale and the lilt of their wings
Distinct from the night

One of...

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I warned you about Mother telling her stories.
I warned you,
but you wouldn’t listen.

I warned you about the magic
of golem and djinn,
about lilac walks 
and mysterious...

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So peculiar
It springs up its head
On late Winter’s bed.  This morning it was
That I fenced in my hand from pulling

The bloom — where put...

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There at the back 
of my mind like an elusive form…
Out of focus a blur in my inner reality 
never dreamt in nightmares 
waiting to...

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Flowers of gold
regal n bold tilting 
in the gentle winds
petals of rare shade 
dance in the rays 
of the setting sun 
golden is your hour...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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Excerpts from the Journal of Dorian Gray
by Michael R. Burch

(These are verified excerpts from Oscar Wilde's "Journal of Dorian Gray")

It was not so much dream,...

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“50 Words for Poe: dactyl”



When Terror Fell came
he had no complaints

the joint was jumping
it was do or dare
he offered Her his old pear
the porridge here...

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"50 Words for Poe: Foxglove"



What goes through the mind 
of Winter, when you are Autumn
just past Spring
Sometimes you’d squeeze IT
in the hot spaces left-of-centre
with the...

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"50 Words for Poe: camera obscura"



The Night Flower 
turns in her bed
in a dark room
stories of wraiths 
like flies buzzing in her head
and blood-sucking bugs...

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In winter they cried ice cold tears,
each one shattered like glass
as they flowed steady and fast.

Blue I feel,
as I lost the warmth of the sun
upon...

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Radiant Gothic Forest


Magical interludes

 exquisite design
 black dress with cross
 we slowly made are way to the forest
 Rocky edge lined the path

 This is...

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Gothic Illumination


darkened sullen brevity
 etched through the premise of my mind
 a cape of restoration
 hearts explode in illumination
 tempers on fire for desire
 the...

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Let me start off by telling people,
I would like to fall in love,
some day, :) * hmmm . . mm . m* I am happy,
to...

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