Midnight Garden
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Shadow Mandrake loon,
mine-mire in your touch of airy witches broom.
Silhouette your herbal remedy,
dramatic flair for the dramatic melody
moon-, child, solar fare
ana...
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Categories:
mandrake, angel,
Form: Rhyme
Give me one last night of silence in the cosmic temple of ancient memory
...Give me one last night of silence in the cosmic temple of ancient memory,
Where shadows dance with light in circles of fire and hidden divine grace,
To touch with trembling fingers the stars from t...
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Categories:
mandrake, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Vapor, Voyage
...O vapor of the ether;
Of noctilucent clouds:
Drain, rain, in a fever?
Thy contents void on crowds?
Dark fire, burn through dragon teeth!
Swarms of men destroy!
Belladonna, wrap in wreath!
Ma...
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Categories:
mandrake, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Priority Prime
...Priority, thy possession?
Primer, coat the prize?
Plight, blight, bane, ban, thy passion!
Pine trees? Fine eyries...
Ghoul in ancient armies?
He surely battle seeks?
Dole and duress, pass en ...
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Categories:
mandrake, body,
Form: Rhyme
Mandrake and Other Temptations
...I sat where the ferns stood guard—
solemn sentries on wood pedestals—
my back pressed against her bookcase,
cradled in the soft hush
of the window seat
as snow rehearsed its silence
just beyon...
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Categories:
mandrake, bible, childhood, imagery, international,
Form: Free verse
The House on Lake Maggiore
...The House on Lake Maggiore
The house on Lake Maggiore was reality, a physical truth,
my imagination became the artist.
The day has become a deckchair, gently folding itself up
as my walk le...
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Categories:
mandrake, home, house, imagery,
Form: Free verse
mandrake was not allowed to have fuzzy balls
...Mandrake’s sisters had fuzzy balls
Green fuzzy balls on their roller skates
Red fuzzy balls on their ice skates
Purple and pink fuzzy balls on their backpacks
You cannot have fuzzy balls they t...
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Categories:
mandrake, humor,
Form: Free verse
Photonic Participle continued
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Meanwhile at the Temple of Doom,
the hearts of the "resistance",
are burning everence
in "Human Resonance Frequency",
somewhat
resonating resonance residence,
but not en...
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Categories:
mandrake, art,
Form: Ballad
Wholesome Beauteous Aroused-
...So wholesome beauteous, bewitching;
Arousing, inviting, mature, provocative racy and seductive;
Vessel cave opening covered in brush;
Mound of majestic, smell of essence eucalyptus;
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Categories:
mandrake, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, woman,
Form: Rhyme
The Rocking Chair
......she was ensnared within her prized gardens
There among a tempest of roses.
Entangled in the mournful whispers
of…
Weeping willows
From noon till night.
Within her bustling haven,...
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Categories:
mandrake, devotion, fear, halloween, horror,
Form: Free verse
Who Wants My Spell Book
...Who wants my spell book? Whisker witch asked her grands.
It was a mystical book held together by large rubber bands.
This book was different because it chastised your efforts to create and bake.
C...
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Categories:
mandrake, halloween,
Form: Rhyme
Memory Therapy, Part Iii
......Jack couldn’t believe such nonsense,
said, “You’re not a shrink, you’re insane.
I’ve been a farmer all my life,
And no one has cut on my brain.”
Johns handed him a new picture,
it was Jack ...
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Categories:
mandrake, confusion, dark, memory, mental
Form: Narrative
My Head
...A heart of stone left to drown
Floats as light in dark
Waves deliver to screaming winds
Upon the sandy shore
Babes of dark, line the edge
Changed beyond belief
North winds sweep the sand away
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Categories:
mandrake, 12th grade, anxiety, corruption,
Form: Free verse
Nine Lives Removed From Royal Dignity
...Nine lives removed from royal dignity
Five days after
getting acquainted with darling cats
pampered like queens courtesy
thee eldest daughter
and her partner acquired as kittens
reminiscen...
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Categories:
mandrake, absence, animal, appreciation, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Nine Lives Removed From Feline Groovy and Royal
...(alternately titled: lion eyes hide sharp claws
unless made irate, then yours truly
bares his sharp talons
on all of mine faux pas).
Aye attest tubby reincarnated
from one male Russian Blue
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Categories:
mandrake, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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