Incarnate
...Bloodlet me, my precious
You can make this my willing sacrifice
To cure me of impurity, of sickness.
Cut gashes into my face.
Discard chunks of my body.
These cliffs into my mind,
Scars of unhe...
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Categories:
scutter, abuse, imagination, longing, lust,
Form: Free verse
The Tempest
...Do you feel the great turning, the maelstrom coming around, spitting sparks of searing birds that circle each other screaming in a language like pain? Blisters burning feathers, beaks and eyes till t...
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Categories:
scutter, death, environment, mental illness,
Form: Prose Poetry
Pickings
...When the snout of lush abundance is full and flowing,
when all prey and creature-kind spill upon the verdant swards,
then it is that I worry night and day,
for the stoat, fox and hawk are at work,...
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Categories:
scutter, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Pure Filth
...When the woollen industry died,
the reservoir that fed the old mill,
became disused.
The water meadow at its head
became a swamp.
Developers,
who want to build houses everywhere,
take one look...
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Categories:
scutter, environment, nature, pollution, water,
Form: Rhyme
Desire
...Confident will, covet the other
the only desire hastens in feather
scutter with wings to reach and cuddle
hence the flower blazing in sun
fud its feeling in well and run
impaired it stays f...
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Categories:
scutter, love,
Form: Elegy
Approaching Storm
...Skulking between the thinning clumps
Of tattered sedge
A balding coot despondently calls,
Scratching Blackbirds scutter deeply
Into a Hawthorn hedge;
Whilst, creeping stealthily,
Gathering da...
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Categories:
scutter, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Halloween
...black trees reach into the moonless night
creaking in October' s chilly wind
brown leaves scutter along the walk
scraping as they go
the devil doers are about tonight
only the foolish venture...
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Categories:
scutter, childhood, children, imagination, mystery,
Form: Free verse