Short Deliquesce Poems

To my Valentine
My voracious dear
Whose zest is for wine
Yet mine guise is of beer
To my dulcet amore
You're the last in regard
To my soul's paramour
This endeavor is scarred
Same as Aeneas
I'll leave this sublime queen
And love instantaneous
Twill deliquesce 'tween
No curb to my ideal
Since love turned out unreal...

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secret flowers hidden in my chest 
ever day I wake up to do my best 
the prayers of yesterday still linger 
on my distracted, rolling fingers 
a sacral image tattooed with Grace  
etched upon my heart, Christs face 
no denomination here, just love 
properly suiting me like a glove; 
Sanctity cannot be seen but can be felt,  
a deliquesce thing that comforts, melts....

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Body Art
David J Walker

It was beautiful beyond any measure
As the birthplace of unheard-of ideas
Mothers wept
Fathers slept 
While the skin-toned canvas 
Spread thin and then 
thinner again 
with age
Topographic changes across the brow 
The eyes seized in torrents of time
The deliquesce of delicate hands 
Unplanned corpulence 
In the fading spadix of arums and palms

Light will take what time has left behind...

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