Long Fleshless Poems

Athenian Epitaphs II

These are ancient Greek epitaphs for lost family and friends, including dogs and other animals ...

Now his voice is prisoned in the silent pathways of the night: 
his owner's faithful Maltese... 
but will...

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Of Ghosts and fiends in Twilight, Cont.


A thought flashed in my mind from the old tales told
The lore of the beast and I had felt his foul breath
I had seconds to act or be devoured...

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This piece was inspired by a journal left behind by an adventurous young man that elected to take his wife and two young children, by ox-drawn wagon, to California, in the early 1850s, expecting to...

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My idea of Hell 
is not that of demons with red-pokers, 
emerging from hot flames... 
as Dante's Inferno; this is the harshest punishment!


Shouldn't all persecuted people have initiated a crusade against
the Catholic Morarchs in Spain...

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Death dreaming

Playfully I kicked the round object.
The round object did not object.
It rolled and rolled and rolled,
While on and on I lazily strolled.
Suddenly I stopped with untold dread,
As I indeed beheld someone’s head.
A lifeless skull...

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The tank stopped abruptly
And we sat open mouthed
At what we beheld
Our brains could not assimilate
What our eyes were seeing
Great mounds of …. What?
It can’t be that.
All the horrors of war
We had witnessed, experienced
Since D-day
Did not...

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Blunt deadly weapons of mass destruction
electrify, fracture, and
jeopardize Homo Sapiens
species (and entire biosphere)
continuity rent asunder

doomsday declared (nuclear winter
gallows humor spelt
with eternal snow day)
dystopian authors outflanked
nuclear fallout wreaks worst

rocky horror picture
effected upon mankind
global (worldwide)
big screen radioactive
wee...

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Draughty rafters, creaks and groans
Is it wind or Timmy Jones
Not in school nor home in bed
Did he roam or lose his head 
So much time since Timmy passed
Neither first nor the last

Such reputations can’t be...

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Glory goes to they who blaze
Their own trail upon the west.
They will be, if nothing else, remembered.
Their morality ambiguous
Scruples questionable.
At best, an antihero to be scoffed at and spit upon.
In fear of the fiends in...

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Of the rescued orphan was the last he wrote;
twas a very fine end, till he boarded his boat.
Relishing in triumph of a tale well told,
he set out for some fishing in the salty cold.
Through coastal...

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A suave gaze, woolly texture, embellished its gaiety gesture
The charmeuse moon, perched like a napping heavenly dove,
Clothed by swarms of floating stars, glazing its snowy allure,
Glimpses from immortality’s repose, a peek into celestial treasure trove,
Cashmere...

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Self-Existent Light

Beyond the sight of imagination,
 Invisible of alpha and omega,
Unseen your non-existent borning daystar 
Glory and splendor collide,
 Pure sinew of sublimity
  Source of ceaseless heartbeats
Flame without source,
Robed in resplendence.

No vacuum!
 No space...

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When birds sing sweetly , 


bright notes fall on deaf ears.

My sightless sockets
no longer watch the setting sun descend 
in orange splendour
behind purple hills.
My fleshless limbs reach, suspended 
in un-returned embrace,
and hope sleeps in earth’s...

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eyes of beauty
shines dark sapphire
sparkling diamonds
dazzling jewels
opens the heart
piercing feelings
in emotions charm
enchants a soul


cherry cheeks blushing
in sweet desire
hair the color 
of a raven
falling feelings
as lips lock together
bursting fort 
in loves flavor
dancing magically  kiss
casting her...

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Spooky Halloween Rhyme 8-16 Lines 10-19-23
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Haunted Path

Ebony mists disguise a windswept path,
Unseen fingers rustle decaying leaves
Fleshless moans shroud the vanishing footpath 
Vertigos of terror without reprieve.

Shadows breathe in a rising rancid breath,
Footsteps crunch like brittle...

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'Twas the night of hallows eve
Outside I heard screaming,
Children were trick or treating,
They were happy halloweening.

Came the knock upon my door
Loudly, it rapped twice.
Sweets in hand I opened it,
To be greeted by a scythe.

A grim...

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The wind once whispered,
Some old secret at my toes,
As I danced beyond a human peep,
Inside the dew drop of a rose,
Climbing like that softly,
With a head that wanted home,
And a heart that spoke in rhythm,
Of...

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one heart travels
through time and space
charmed in words
lands a warm breath 
of fresh air
enrapturing feeling
floating upon cloud nine
emotions euphoria
singing blissfully
into the soul's eye

in mirrored reflections
the spirit rises
transported with delight
within blissful happiness
falling into
seventh heaven
softly floating tenderness
spell...

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sipping early morning dew
tasting emotions
as feelings brew
drawing behind 
the eyes
a star gleaming
magically shooting arrows
Cupid's every wish

inside enchanting beautiful 
sparkling  a soul
golden delicious
dancing fleshless
magic floating purity
warms the heart 
of dreams

treasure of all treasures
inside the deepest...

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