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Lusus Naturae Poems - Poems about Lusus Naturae


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...the bracing factor
sun adds a finishing touch
lusus naturae...
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Categories: lusus naturae, analogy, appreciation, natural disasters,
Form: Haiku

Lusus Naturae

...The dark lake only buoys its own natatory denizens,
it allows some to swim, some to glide, dip or delve,
but those sombre waters pull down children
seeing them only as the cloud spawn of alien sho...
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Categories: lusus naturae, poetry,
Form: Free verse



The Lake That Ate Me

...I Almost drowned,
which is to say,
I fell upwards into a darkness
that contained no earth or sky.

Ten years old and a strong swimmer,
but that lake only buoyed up
its own natatory denizens, 
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Categories: lusus naturae, poetry,
Form: Blank verse

Lusus Naturae Sonnet 47 (Petrarchan)

...Between the witching hour and saffron dawn,
When guileless hearts are peacefully asleep,
An evil prowls a wolf amidst the sheep,
With fangs as bloody daggers swithly drawn;

And erelong the warm...
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Categories: lusus naturae, imaginationevil,
Form: Sonnet

The Fall of Valdersha

...They are forever among us, the diaphanous spirits
Seeking the elan  vital of the cycling centuries

Running from necrosis, paying a mortuary tribute
To the killing fields of a nearby Roman Spring...
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Categories: lusus naturae, angst, forgiveness, imagination, introspection,
Form: Free verse




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