Long Snakelike Poems

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With a snakelike hiss, the tangerine train doors close
and the engine rock-rumbles forward 
clicking over each joined metal coupling.

Long gone are the pristine days of virginity 
and the impassioned rush of slick new parts.
The small sounds of newspaper pages turning, 
and whispered phrases penetrate the antiquarian din.

As an industrial landscaped melds with the
stark spring sunshine through the cars’ graffiti scared glass.
The rigid plasticine interior fills at first stop 
with giggling, rose cheeked girl-children.
Herded in single file to the rear of the car, 
by Moslem matrons wrapped in head scarves.
The girls’ blue-plaid, pleated, school skirts,
dusted the cobalt seats.
Foreign images, our images, reflect 
Dali-like from British eyes of blue, brown, and green, 
an American couple 
on the way to Wimbledon station.

© Debbie Guzzi  

The Praise Dancers…
In stilled silent
space 
between garnished tables,
the word exploded:  
gyrating motion 
spilled out
here and there;
yet
bare clapping hands
and naked feet
made 
no sound.

Staccato movements 
shot upward
finger waving arms— 
crescendo praises
descending 
bending knees
pulled
bowed heads
to poised reverence.

Sleeping soul spirits
woke 
to thrice toilsome
tried hearts
fluttering with audacious hope;
dancing to the rhythmic notes 
of faith
snakelike Salome sought
to defile. 

With heads held heavenly,
they danced 
before the head of their lives:
the true and ever living God.

© Millard Lowe  

Antares' red glow bears firmly down
upon plush, chartreuse carpet
lying prone against the obsidian expanse,
blanketing sections of a remote 
blue sphere, purling,

spinning helplessly 
through distant time and space;
slave to routine and rotation,
never daring to break free; 
to reach out.

Scorpius sprawls low 
across the Autumn void;
a celestial corpse 
twinkling, twitching; 
inexplicably still breathing, 
expelling the last 
of her precious plexine light 
in a final, desperate act

to awake inspiration, stir passion,
proffer wholeness and healing
to an infirmed, ungrateful planet,
for her end-of-reign recession.

Projecting dreams; visions 
like swirling Akashic holograms 
leaping forth from ancient pages 
of ethereal records,
all but lost to time and apathy.

Twisting snakelike through the cosmos,
her broody gaze steeling
in every direction; 
fierce energy bombarding; 
burning across the universe.

Intense joules bursting forth;
reaching out to nurture
willing universal souls;
scorching those who reject her,
turning them to table fodder 
at a divine banquet 
for dark gods.

Sagittarius flickers jovially behind
as if breathless with laughter;
taunting, frustrating,
staying just out of reach 
of her vengeful tail.

The rule of Scorpio wanes
upon Orion's horizontal breach
extinguishing the sting-ed cluster;
quelling her tumultuous surge
until late-spring pains 
rebirth her fires,

igniting them, emerging again
from the icy chasm 
of black oblivion.

© Thvia Shetley  

      Clover superlative lovers, sprung via same stem
      Umbrella immunity protects sprites supple
      Filter purity lacy leaf shade kindly dapples them
      

      Desiree samples pitchfork debauch, spicy morsel
      Charcoal meats mesh ashes as a couple 
      Ambidextrous temptress directs a dirty rehearsal 


      Slides snakelike under bellies of cavernous crime
      Noir nymph' s naughty retorts immortal 
      Eclipses mens' deception with suspense sublime


      Renee seeps charisma, dripped dagger stalactites 
      Fever lucid rouge cog spins fire's scorch
      Sword slung blood hungry royalty raunchily ignites 


      Challenges zealous volunteers alter ideal rhythm 
      Their arteries' iron absorbed easily by hers
      Victims slump lethargic in archer's hearty system
      

      Daisy cartwheels through clouds of chaste cherubs
      Recklessly devours disappearing desserts
      Meringue marries her tongue to immaculate merit

      
      Sunrise serene promise of peace glides with dove
      Subtle touch petal's glitter silken sensual 
      Agitates a fragile ego to dream unconditional love 
   
      
       Virgin indulges a glutton with wedding splendour
       Impulsive maid skips in fields plentiful 
       Expressive poses pollinate their dramatic detour


        Reunited trio resplendent, red black white card
        Dervish of dizzying seductive curses
        Climb dandelion conducted, an angel on guard 
      

      


                    26th April 
        Tantalising Apparitions!

© Sigrid Ermine