Inside the Winter Wild
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"Inside the Winter Wild"
Inside the Wild,
Winter races
towards Time
like a runnaway train
it’s shadowy
and dark,
yet, inside Winter,
the wild keeps
wit...
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Categories:
llb, christmas, magic, muse,
Form: Narrative
Christmas Dreams of Us
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"Christmas Dreams of Us"
Christmas
dreams
of us
we sleep
to dream
of better things
we muddle
through it all
some how
Christmas
dreams
of us
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Categories:
llb, christmas, light, love, magic,
Form: Narrative
Stripped Down
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"Stripped Down"
Stripped down
the external shed,
snakes aren’t what you think
stripped down
the external shed,
skins hung on a beam
overhead,
hanging souls
and...
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Categories:
llb, light, mirror, muse,
Form: Narrative
Dreams Coercing Memory
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“Dreams Coercing Memory”
You want cherries jubilee
with a little Krug champagne
but soft custard is just the same
when reality plays its game
by the spoonful
morphine c...
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Categories:
llb, death, family, life, love,
Form: Elegy
The Great Forgotten Language
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"The Great Forgotten Language"
In the forest
Love shows
the way
spreading seeds
strange creatures
come forth
into the clearing
of a known self
some run away
sp...
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Categories:
llb, humanity, love, muse,
Form: Narrative
God Like, Not So Different
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“God like, not so different”
She wrote,
“where do you go to my lovely?”
my response,
“I sink into the screen
like a scream queen goddess,
I am Lilith most of the t...
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Categories:
llb, muse,
Form: Narrative
Heather
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"Heather"
such a tumultuous quiet discourse
crochet hooked and thinking on wheels,
the wrong turns, sometimes thoughts move
to the recalcitrant one, another tumultuous hea...
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Categories:
llb, family, forgiveness, love, muse,
Form: Narrative
Small Addictions
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“Small Addictions”
bit by bit
the hunger begins,
the time when everyone,
it would seem, is giving in
to those small addictions
inevitably they become
your sole purp...
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Categories:
llb, love, muse,
Form: Narrative
The Collectors
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"The Collectors"
a kiss
spreads its alms
warmth on cold lips
Love comes to collect
the eyes tell a story
the messengers
opened
an untold mystery
passing
t...
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Categories:
llb, journey, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Kaleidoscope
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"Kaleidoscope"
They say another
wrote the story, not I.
that I, mere I,
having little experience, shy
and far removed from
such an alien world,
would not possess the...
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Categories:
llb, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Tightropes of the Three Graces
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"Tightropes of the Three Graces"
Tightropes
for hanging clothes
on a line
each piece
pegged wooden
held between closed fences
misfortune's breeze lifts
sleeves ...
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Categories:
llb, little sister, love, sister,
Form: Free verse
Precepts of the Aegis-Holder
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"Precepts of the Aegis-Holder"
no gorgons here
but 3 of one, yes?
shields raise
back the dead
to life
and phoenix
from the ashes
spreads its burning wings
feat...
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Categories:
llb, family, love, strength,
Form: Free verse
The Seance of All Things
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“The Séance of All Things”
Fingertips touch lightly
receptive of all,
open to messages
from Beyond
receptive of all,
open to messages
in our dreams
elemental,
...
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Categories:
llb, muse,
Form: Free verse
Golden Red
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"Golden Red"
sunflowers sent
silent voices
never speak
but hearts
in suspended grace
are embedded forever
still, grace calls
this tugging moment
into each othe...
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Categories:
llb, muse,
Form: Romanticism
Heres Why My CV Needs Work
...NAME: Phil Latio.
QUALIFICATIONS: LLB (Law) PhD (Medicine) & FSC (Federation Starfleet
Commander).
POSITION: Head job.
AGE: pass.
SEX: I don’t like bei...
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Categories:
llb, humorous,
Form: List
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