Short Leviathan Poems

Braving stormy seas
Lone helmsman-up to the task 
Old Leviathan...

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Leviathan vows
learned love life eventuals
jailed social confines...

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Old soul of the sea
nurtured by the rolling depths
   touched only by God...

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nine to five pressures
eat me whole ~ leviathan ~
lost in its stink soul...

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Leviathan-sized
The enormity of dreams
Keeps rising like yeast



Date written and posted: 08/19/2018...

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serpent minds of greed
grow leviathan that feeds
revenge, nature binge

For: Nature’s revenge
Sponsored by: Carolyn Devonshire...

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leviathan sleeps —
tosses and turns sea cauldron
white foam froths in deep

who dares awaken this beast
whose halitosis breath seethes?

2/6/2017

JOB 41...

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We drink your blood while we laugh at you in your drowning lungs we feast on your skin and flesh. We are hyenas that stand on two feet we serve leviathan melter of those that sleep....

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sculptured hobo of the sea
a pirate’s swashbuckling adventure
siren, kraken, leviathan
or some other ocean creature
but now enjoying retirement
as peaceful a garden feature


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Griffin soldiers,
On this march,
Bright yellow beak,
Red marble eyes and,
Black feathered wings,
Carry spear and shield
These leviathan hands
Guard this evil empire,
Aboard this ship of Satan...

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pleiades

largely invincible
legendary monster
like dinosaurs extinct?
look at Job 41
lives within the water
lumbering evil beast
leviathan, a whale?


written April 15, 2017
for Kim Merryman's  Pleiades "L" contest...

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Hunters so wary, 
Rosco and Larry,
Killed them a kitten-like
Wendigo fairy.

Down went Leviathan
Small as a Guppy
Three-headed hellhound
As sweet as a puppy.

Out on safari
Rosco and Larry
Shotgunned each other
Twas narry so merry....

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One lone man against Leviathan
With its signals and its code
It’s forms and formulation
What’s a soul to do,
Bend and yield as a willow
Or stand proud and tall as an oak?

You tell me,
Or better yet ask Jonah
In the belly of the beast.

(8/22/24)
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I once knew and loved you 
And we stuck like glue

Until the Leviathan appeared smiling

Right up from its lair
In the deep green and blue

(C)
Copyright John Duffy 

Christian theologians identified Leviathan with the demon of the deadly sin envy. 

Source.
Google.

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Seated beside a river, waiting for the sun to lay down.
Blonde hair rolling to all appearances
Gazing at the leviathan gulping the fish
A soul inside me experienced uneasiness
The moon pronounced the fate of life.
The missed cuckoo clock refreshed the memories, life is one-sided...

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I loved it
in spite of myself
chasing the spirit ghost
across distant horizons
offering as payment
the lost finger of fate
sealing a promise
only a child could make
beginning again
what each ending has taught me
living within the moment’s destruction
—hiding what the leviathan demands

(Dreamsleep: September, 2022)...

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Worms rotate in a peculiar procession
As spring enters - the conquering gladiator.
Saplings play in the breeze.
Dogs smile at the sun while the wind breathes with sighing despondency.
Falling leviathan blossoms float to the ground from reoccurring trees.
Nature holds us all hostage in her warm embrace; green, urgent, and rampant....

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Worms rotate in a peculiar procession
As spring enters - the conquering gladiator.
Saplings play in the breeze.
Dogs smile at the sun while the wind breathes with sighing despondency.
Falling leviathan snow flake blossoms, float to the ground from reoccurring trees.
Nature holds us all in her warm embrace, green, urgent, and rampant....

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           Out comes
                  I
          Throwing up
                Fire
              In seek
                  of
             Mine pet
                 His
            Behemoth
          To deliver up 
                  I
          His daughter
             shemoth
           Equaled by
           none other
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A spray that glistened brightly in the sun
alerted us to what lay just below.
So close was he, we thought we’d surely run
headlong, colliding with a forceful blow.
And then, as if to say I’m not yet done,
his tail appeared: a curtain call for show.
We braced, assuming we were impact-bound;
instead, leviathan commenced to sound.
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giants through the hour glass

stride leviathan
upon the hissing seeds of mountains
curl toes, summer freed,
about the pillars of the world
whose molten bloom
faded millennia ago
and crumbled down to dust.

upon these ancient shores
ponder as you brush aside
these clinging crumbs of mighty crags
once, a time ago
we were almost dust
and they were giants....

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See...
Six thrice...
Mister Faust
Upon your head
All years you exchanged
For currency and wine
Divine you were but you chose
Leviathan to plant a rose...
Divine you were but you chose
For currency and wine
All years you exchanged
Upon your head
Mister Faust
Six thrice...
See...

Faust: (foust)-  a man in legend and literature who sells his soul to the devil for 
knowledge and power....

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It's a grand old boat-still quite reliable.
But from the darkness below.
A crimson breasted leviathan is clawing holes.
Deep into its starry soul.
She's quickly listing.
Vermin gnawing away at the sextant.
Panic is hastily jumping ship.
With the NorthStar stuffed in their bindles...

The loyalists are bailing water.
Hope garnished in salt and blistered.
Predators are slowly circling in.
To the sound of a cracked conche....

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O monolithic bones - life magnified.
In Millennial mists what gravity defied?
While you who shook the earth  have turned to oil
Somehow we can't forget your great turmoil
And left to probe the mystery in our psyche
Of how and why you disappeared from sight
Can wonder if Earth's forces changed against you
And plunged you to extinction overnight

If memory of our fear would disappear
Leviathan bones proclaim,  once you were here....

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"Wet"



Whisper hot your breeze upon my mountains
Ocean deep Hadad cajoles your Leviathan vastness
I lay floating exposed salt moist 
you pound my shallow shores
The Wet Season raptures on a hot curve 
the Monsoon calls

(Ladylabyrinth/2019)




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTben-K0Ms8


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadad
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