Short Steely Poems

RIP, Steely Dan;
a permanent part of my
personal playlist....

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Your cold 
Black eyes and
Steely blue hair
Betrayed by this 
Maple-morning...

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Gloomy graveyard beneath, rotten ribs underneath; 
Savage spirit seeking, steely saber bleeding....

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majestic red kite
darting steely eyes seek prey
look ... no strings attached

02/04/20...

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eagle-owl
we take this chance
your moon-shaped eyes
and steely claws
fill this night air
in moonlight dance...

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Louis' neck in the guillotine
CEOs glean much from this scene
Selfish as ever
These kings mean and clever
Make their steely getaways clean...

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cold and steely with no mind
smooth but rough at the same time
no control over the damage caused
needed for protection 
but lusted after for the power to rule...

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Nostradamus,
When you
Speak of
Fate and destiny
Of mankind,
The future
Have ears
The neon glaze
Appears across
Your steely eyes, but
We are still made of
Flesh and bone...

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a murder of crows
  steely claws, eyes like daggers ~
    and not without caws

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H/T to Ariel Collins' a murder of crows which got me thinking of this one...

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playing her
Jew's harp
jaw mouth
and juice
harp

my tongue
as if a fast
finger plucking
her only known
linguaphone

fleshy
turning
moaning
tones to a
solo singing tune...

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Like Mozart’s Cherubino, I know nothing of love
but I am waiting on the runway, idling like a jet
I am burning my composure
I am inviting trouble
I have hidden gifts
and a steely will...

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Steely-eyed
tight-lipped
she mouthed the words
'It's over'
twice,
so they'd sink in all the way
no tear in her eye
nor gulp in her throat
guarding her pounding heart
as she cleaved his
in two...

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I know that you’ll pretend to be asleep 
to sip and slurp the darkness in my eyes.  
While steely train-tracks slide and jump and weep
in your sick, slick, and slackening July,
my amtrak seat stays sticking to my thighs...

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a lone car on a highway at 5am
its headlight beams knife the dark
no exit wounds
just a flash of steely light pushing 
deeper and deeper into the tarred body

the night bleeds slow
pales from the loss of black blood...

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Frigid hard worked
Hands
Shoulders
Goose pimpled cold
Give me texture

Steely seldom blinked
Poker eyes
Wrinkled straight mouth
Smile
Give me chills

Voiceless response
Touch
Less embrace
Romantic impressionism
Give me love...

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my marble bag
has a steely
and a cat's
eye so it
hangs
a bit
lop

    sided
           but
  mind 
      you
 my
   shooter
           is 

        s
        t
        r
        a
        i
        g
        h
        t...

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I wait until the sunlight fades,
Not fearing coming dark,
Through the shadows despair wades,
No sound do I hear hark;
Houses near draw down their shades
No dogs will even bark,
I see him walk with steely blades
Like a soul-snatching shark....

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mountains of words float on the sea of her grief
steely cold
truth 
penetrates to bone
comfort is empty
powerless with such limp lies
her raw heart
is drowning
her screaming 
mouth
is muffled with cotton balls
to silence
the ocean of agony

...

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Rapier
slender,
steely, swiftly
plunged deeply
where no one had touched, to its hilt you thrust, 
embedded...
and then,
silently,
without a whisper,
finishing the deed,
withdrew the dripping blade
And left me to hemorrhage
our tourniquet friends to mend...

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Bodies entangled in a wonderful bliss
A fiery passion
It starts with a kiss
A steely glance from across the room
Hearts pound
Inhibitions unglued
My mind is screaming
A feverish mania has surely taken control
Should we extinguish It now
Or follow where it goes??...

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she was lukewarm
he was a grill fire
both of them under a shared starlight

he poured her whisky-soaked coke
she drank it like weak lemonade
this made him bolder
yet her steely blues eyes
grew coldly

now older
all he has is a simmering memory,
on his backburner....

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Steely Dan, Floyd all the real bands of the day Miller, Stones, subtle-base jacking up
the-background,

popping quarters... drink-up cry's filling the night-air,

mid-those towering-sky's of-thunder... .




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh_x3F3jxeI...

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Apathy’s paralyzation,
Iridescent indignation,
Steely eyed, grim concentration,
Ebullient, effuse elation,
Scheming klepto pilferation,
And dysphoric ideation
Drugs for every situation
Prescription proliferation
Pharmacological nation
Where’s my pills? Where in tarnation?...

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Eyes of night beckon forth,
steal from me this deathly force,
raise above your steely voice,
this dagger etched in poisoned love.
Cut and slice fragile thoughts of hope joy faith,
so I may laugh in  mocking jest.
Stitch my hatred deep inside,
so his heart may lie and rot within my stagnant sin.....

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Bogg the steely bug took a smart drug
                                Played silly buggers in Biggie’s rug
                                     Biggie screeched like owl
                                       Hey,No fare, no fowl
                              Big Bogg made Biggie a real humbug...

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