Obol Poems


Premium MemberThrough thinned forests where the dew of time is carried, the ancient chant of desire roams

...Through thinned forests where the dew of time is carried, the ancient chant of desire roams,
And shadows of men, like spirits in festivity, stretch their endless palms of wanting.
Sleepwalkers amon...
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Categories: obol, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThrough the Keyhole

...Deceit of sun when rays are still but porous;
unwelcome thief, afford my dream more seconds.
Some dappled shadows flit through mystic keyhole;
alight upon pellucid remnant image.
I stifle yawn as...
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Categories: obol, dream, fantasy,
Form: Iambic Pentameter


Misled

...Nor thunder in the dark, nor flash, nor fire,
nor other pyrotechnics that, they say,
accompany all such events, nor dire
phantasmagorias, going astray

in the unconsciousness. I’m all alone
dow...
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Categories: obol, death, nature,
Form: Sonnet

Deal

...he and I were sitting face to face
staring at each other with a small tea table between us

there was neither a cup of coffee
nor a piece of fruit or a slice of cake on the table
but a piece of ...
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Categories: obol, anxiety, death, life, metaphor,
Form: Free verse

Charon's Obol

...In the shadow, behind the tree, 
on the meadow, bend your knee,
down the valley, up the stream, flat bedrock,
hear me scream, bellow the heavens, toward hell,
dark tunnel, wishing well; fellow travel...
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Categories: obol, absence, addiction, birth, change,
Form: I do not know?


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