Short Capitulating Poems

towering weeds
the unkempt garden
~ admitting defeat



posted on July 31, 2018...

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Hush
a murmur -
a burst of mirth - you laugh.
A giggly boy or two; the
drone of you
mixed with monkey's bonding squeals
slide up the stairs; on polished
paternal air.
Then a deep man's voice where
once a boy's ascended - mellow with
early manhood. Resonating;
capitulating - exclaims agreement.
And I see through gauze
made murky by time
us five - woven
warmly -...

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Leaving nothing to his children but cowardly shame,
his back turned toward the light 

His memory the captor of a traitorous scheme, 
capitulating through the fight

His legacy broken, his endowment recalled, 
his reputation scorched and burned

Offering to the Devil his original sin
—with redemption twice suborned 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Kissed by the rose of death.
It's sweet black petals
taste of wine.

I suckle on her
luscious petals,
consuming her
delightful, fragrant aroma

Descending,
Capitulating
to the dark beauty of
her malevolent spell.

Distracted.
Engrossed by 
her ebony lips.

Disregarding
the noxious prick 
of her prodding thorns

Gently piercing,
consuming,
assimilating
my existence....

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Capitulating to the wild, random and fickle.
  Sigils weaved from nothing, we digest,
   divide amongst our kin,
    our hands stiffened and hastily fragmented,
     our eyes on the sun,
      we are all wrapped in cellophane,
       falling in place, as the holy crown for man, our Lord and Savior.
        
Man forbid thou escape his grip today!
Even so, he will surely find thee later....

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You have the Florentine beauty of the soul,

with pale fingers as if made of snow,
you play nocturne farewell melody
on my ribs as if they were a harp.

and your renaissance soul 
will conquer this simple one of mine,
and it will not remain of me
nothing but an outline in your past 
that will complete your Shakespearean tragedy.

A picturesque depiction 
of self-destruction, 
after capitulating to beauty.
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