When Madness Grins
...When Madness Grins
When madness grins, the mirrors blink,
And all the clocks begin to drink.
Time forgets its careful lines—
And paints the air in crooked signs.
Mice wear monocles to preach...
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Categories:
monocles, adventure, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Unthings
...I stumbled barefoot through fractured noon,
Where lamplight bloomed like a fossil's tune.
The sky was stitched with electric thread,
Held up by whispers from things long dead.
The clocks ran ba...
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Categories:
monocles, fantasy,
Form: Narrative
Animal
...Animals in top hats,
Ride bicycles en road,
Spoked wheels and pedaled spats,
Round about, in ornamental spode.
Animals in monocles,
Spectate in obeisance,
Cuffed by inked chronicle:
Renasce...
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Categories:
monocles, america, analogy, animal, self,
Form: Rhyme
Mr Cat Was Lured Into the Woods
...Mr. Cat knew it all; he had opinions upon opinions.
He caused a ruckus in every corner of his town.
Did not care; it was his way – devil’s advocate
With a devil’s cat tongue.
The other cats wer...
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Categories:
monocles, cat,
Form: Free verse
Clearly
...monocles ogle double vision – refract longsightedness nearby...
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Categories:
monocles, introspection,
Form: Monoku