Long Entombing Poems

Friday May 13th, 2022

An excerpt taken from a lengthy tome,
written courtesy a favorite poet of mine.

Paraskevidekatriaphobia  struck within a blink,
I swear yours truly never took a drink,
nevertheless he witnessed
and falsely accused of being a...

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In the first week of December
The winter was cold and bitter
I stepped into the night and shivered and moaned
Enraptured by the wind and the vast unknown
In the corners of my fragile mind
I misplaced all sense...

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notification of fire evacuation 
     slated to occur 
April 12th, 2018 (between the hours 
     of 9:00 am and 12 pm) did spur
me to validate Google asper,
 
that direct object heave ving, 
     pro noun sub bull,...

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Paternal grandmother's headstone - Beth David, Elmont, Long Island

Shaindel (Sadie), variant of Shana Harris
died May 13th, 1959 exquisitely chiseled
alphanumeric characters legibly engraved
sepulchral casket entombing lovely bones
deoxyribonucleic acid repurposed into me
Matthew Scott Harris patronymic protector,
when I...

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I drink privilege, I breath iniquity.
Everything around me wreaks of docile obsequisy.
I was a born a prince, of a minor province.
And ever since, I have often heard words minced,
By those below, who dare but tow
The...

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Written: September 24, 2023
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In the dawn-like haze—a shriek was heard,
An echo so shrewd, yet birdless, oddly slurred 
It was ordained by—a stratum unseen,
A throbbing coerce, a numen so keen. 

A canticle flower—a bellow coarsely flung,
Through...

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I feel the scorn;
         white lies, beneath,
        alabaster, undaunted, cold.
         Remaining unborn;
...

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I’m slowly dying ... being pillow buried alive,
and ain’t nobody’s pity coming
to prematurely save me

I fell into this death trap of my own crypt choosing,
when the creeping lust
of a sultry smile 
enticed me so hypnotically
I...

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Merlin was born by sorcery.
   A demon father, incubus.
   Virginal mother, royalty.
   Great wizard of King Arthur's court.
   Of legends, deeds and chivalry.
   That fabled...

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My heart has these many dwellings
such dead cold cautionary tales
long disregarded and condemned.

And then there is this secret palace
eclipsing all true loves desolation
where deep resides your essence.

A rapture of all your many graces
this mansion of...

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have slept blissfully with masters 
endured mice of men 
been protected in the inner sanctum 
yet grovelled in poverty and pain
used my body to pull myself from its grip 

seen many vices 
secrets cleverly hidden...

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While gray waters of June moan…one last time
Near the dimming edge of our isle, offshore--
How  so many stars tremble quite sublime
For this clutch of demise gushes its pour.

Near the dimming edge of our isle,...

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I spend each wakeful night in search of evasive sleep.
    An unwelcomed vigil denies me peaceful rest.
I've need to bury his haunting specter somewhere deep;
    entombing forever my perpetual...

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You kissed me on the neck, 
And felt my body shiver.
You fed me honey coated words
Thinking that you were all so clever. 
I fell for the words that you uttered from the heart,
Not wanting to...

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Grave Site

By the grave I saw the rest
There was no life left
Dead in the flesh no pulse left
God took back His breath
Ah, distinctly I was entombing
It threw its ghost against the remnants
The explosive earth ending
...

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Defunctive decadent dreams upon desert Dunes,
Where your love drifts to dust within sandy storms…
The dry devious air assimilates amorous dusty debris,
entombing maleficent mirages.

My breath betrayed by stimulated sinister sins,
Illusive illusions adorn the gated Gardens of...

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A Mother’s Love

Encased in a lovely embryonic slime 
A diamond, Parasol seventeen eighty nine 
Refracting and reflecting all of the woe,
That you wish to throw

Entombing me ever with you corporal presence 
Snuffing the embers before...

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Volcanoes can engulf the land
in avalanching lava blaze
entombing picturesque Pompeiis,
for Nature has the upper hand.

Tsunamis raze an earthly strand
disrupting lives that cling to breath
in e’er untimely mortal death,
for Nature has the upper hand.

Despite the undertakings...

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Hopelessness is a loyal mistress. 
Tender agonies whispered in ones ear,
twisted thoughts to forget by sunlight;
only the uneasy shadows cast doubt.
Warming embrace of past mistakes,
lovingly corrupting every though;
every joyous memory left defiled. 

She is a...

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Entombing me this blinding flare,
   Inside my head, volcanic hell.
   My senses reeling with despair,

   Both eyes, by now a vacant stare.
   When shock waves stopped my...

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I remember the city
when it had to be plugged
into black handsets for distant listening.
Conical coral peaks rose up
from sky-blue shallows once -
right here under the entombing concrete.
Nothing grew in that place except heaps and hills.
This...

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