Short Unshackling Poems

Heart 
is where
desire stirs
and also where
all such cravings rest.
When soul’s eye sees desire
as stark cause of our stupor, 
we witness form as an object, 
assigning not any ownership, 
thus unshackling consciousness from ego....

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Fearless Raven, soaring in
the rich, dark chasm—
that world of shadows, echoes,
cliffs and crags chaotic,
the void of subtle stirrings in
a quintessential midnight—
Make some room for me
on your old, straight wings.
I, too, need to sense
lightning piercing stardust,
galvanizing mountains,
stoking distant thunder.
Let me catch a breath
of your pure, primeval air,
exotic and unshackling
latent, raw, unbounded....

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You consumed me whole,
unshackling secrets
stitched close to me,
eavesdropping on
each whispering word of
my muted confessions

Your carmine lips
relish my
rugged refrain,
your touch,
a lustful lavender caress
blossoming like
spring tendrils,
drenched in
the nectar,
an ambrosiac conflagation

I sway
back and forth
on the vines of lust
as the Eden-esque fruit,
the vinicultural life
of your sipped wine...

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