Long Pistil Poems

The Deception of Free Verse: Dreams I, Translation of Etiemble’s L’imposture du vers libre by T. Wignesan 

(From René Etiemble’s only poetry collection: le Coeur et la cendre: soixante ans de poésie (the heart and...

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I say I'm a designer of systems, plans
Man's
Parts that stand together, set in place to serve
Trees and planets, too, which are unplanned by us
The observant, wise man
Tries to understand
Name the parts, pistil and stamen
Rocks, eskars
Elements.

Winter...

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My life cant be helped but still strike a pose
punch you in the face call for a second dose
i got so much ice hell just frooze
light a fire up under all your noses
im the satanic...

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                    The beer gardens of hatred
          ...

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we came together in a passionate embrace
as the plasma flowed and blood raced
 
eyes locked like an eagle on its prey
another victim of love swooped and taken away
 
the instinctive beckoning of raw sexual pleasure
the...

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PROUD OF INCIVILITY 

 They claimed I was naked and uncivilized
So they came to clothe me and ''disrobe'' my naked shame
But I wish I remained the same
For they wiped away my honor and fame.

They claimed...

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"WHITE LILY"


When the first 
snow-white lily 
sprouted from drops of milk
spilled from Hera’s breast
and on her lap sweet Hurcules 
rested, baby feather fingers touching
she smiled a surrogate mother’s
fantasy, to make time stop still
reached her hands...

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Stop drop 
gun shot pop 
whoops to late 
hollow point penatrate 
your cranium N===='s.be blastin um 
like the wild wild west 
N===='s.ya don't wanta test 
roll up on ya quick as S=== wit 
Glocks cocked...

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It’s deeper than words, for she arose more glorious -n- prettier than any earthly rose, 4 I lay with inside her pink abode, it’s deeper than life, -n- more intricate than when day meets night,...

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The future looks so frightening
fifteen minutes after your flower birth at dawn
From heart to soul,
your anxieties let you see
a sky halo of a red sun glow
Arterial uncertainty flowing
thru the grassroot dirt
to stem to petals
The limited...

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Purple reign
falling on fallow,
divided tulip fields

Lavender pain
drench the shallow,
paper fortified hills

Crimson parched lips
cling unto the violet dew kiss
of a long-anticipated 
famine relief scarlet promise

Burgundy pillar hope
caught betwixt a rosy red sunset,
and a misty dawn twilight...

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Queen Fancy on a dewdrop sea to Pheasant Farm smooth sails,
her fairy barge a gift of one wee handsome Prince of Whales,  
a purple petal lopped from off a lily of the Nile,
the throne...

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Delicately, I hold the soft smooth petals
                            Tracing...

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Death’s Less Than Nothing!

Death’s less than nothing, a frail, not one welcomes or offers a cold one /
a glass of fine wine. Death is nobody’s friend one might meet on this plane.
Death is tasteless and...

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He's rolling along the blacktop,
Rolling past Flora's crop,
Like a disinterested wind,
A Zephyr without a clue... 

He doesn't stop to take notice, 
It's just one foot before the next,
Placing his worn out size twelve
Atop a sweet...

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My love, you have been distant and cold

Your demeanor is resistant yet robust

When will your skin feel and your mind unload

When will your eyes open and your veins fill with lust

 

My love, I have...

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Among the phantom of hillsides and trees,
She hovers quietly, fragrant as a ripened jasmine
Beneath the stark  new moonlight  peeping
Harsh  to a disguised tryst, a forbidden desire
As her lover appears near the appointed...

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People ask how this yearlong will come
to pass, of which parts are the triumphs
and stench of learning... of why blossoms
drop on cobblestones ravaged
by a wildfire tearing velvet buds,
flatlining: the male stamen and female pistil
barren from...

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Come gently like a winding trellis
stroking my shape as you fondle
 my vulnerability, and tease,
 tease curves of my spine with whispers
to unleash what is half-awake in my eyes,
draping my flesh with the scent 
of...

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Feign neither to these visioned damsel life! 
Do ultra-pain ever vanish with time? 
Pre-infant, a thorny storm stunned out like a nipple 
Some say normally, it only tickles 
Stony bloke says, it's a nitty-gritty while...

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I have a thing for an alluring beauty,
Such a marvelous view to pursue,
I tend to worship in appreciation,
And today I will come beneath you,
In desire of your sincerity, I insist,
Tonight I will color your world...

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I live on Bella Boulevard.
Some call it “Singles Street.”
For residents, life can be hard,
and many long to meet
someone. They wish to be discreet.
These ladies will be caught off-guard,
their faith in men so sorely marred,
their equilibrium...

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She’s not yet a teen but bigger than a bean
and sweeter than Skittles can be.
She dances around like a princess unbound
and means the world to me. 

She’s a little erratic and sometimes gives static 
to...

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Neath sun-kissed skies at sweet springtime
leaves sprout and naked branches bless
with clothes of green that lifts the mood
from doldrums deep of winter past.

Like bulging breasts, the buds break forth
plump with the pistil and petals 
waiting...

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I love you 
I said to a poppy flower, 
Dancing coquettely on the light wind,   
Closely observed its nice red bowl
Outer and inner texture of covering and color,
Have tasted it freshness, odors and...

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