Slashing Poems

We Drink Ambrosia - Fugue

... 
we drink ambrosia from goblets within our Hearts
browline meets browline you drink your own 
which dripped into mine hush hush the surfer 
and soldier homed, drinking ambrosia hone...

A Good Sense Of Humor Blunts The Sharp Blades Of Reality

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When the starless nights are bleakly opaque, 
and the sunless days desolately misty, 
to steer the astray life across an ambiguity maze 
within the miasma of misery is not easy. 

As...

The Damselfly

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Even then blue roused up
beautiful images and sensations, 
settled so many fragile feelings 
in a small boy’s imagination – 
like music and the damselfly. 
Enchanted, awed, transfixed by t...

The Winds Of Spring

...weeping willow trees
     long limbs lashing and slashing
          in the winds of spring
...

Rebirth of the Soul

...When the mind faltered

Alternate timelines were born

Lines of realities blurred

Rifts of possibilities torn



Truth fading into the abyss

Chained to the unknown

Silently waiting f...

A Tryst With Fantasy

...He's closed the blinds. His twilight dawns.
	A midday reverie.
Within his mind, a vision spawns,
	awash in mystery.
*
A levee bursts, torrents crash free—
	a castle from a dream.
Atop his thro...

Mindstorms

...As i sit and watch the storm, 
my mind racing with thoughts and fear, 
dark clouds gather overhead. 
Darkness only broken by lightning
slashing across the sky, 
I sit cowering in my chair, 
fea...

The Lunacy of Language

...Ah, words, the lunacy of language
The cackling currency of the confused
Squandered in vain attempt at conversation

Words, the spit balls and snow balls of youth
Sharpened to become the epees of...

Shadows of the Valley

...O' moment 
of mist-glazed melancholia ~
I'm shrinking in paper-cut smokes
of shrivelling sunsets, 
amidst the seizures of silence, there I surf ~ 
in swollen skulls of selfless swan-orchids,...

Another Farage barrage

...Slewed and screwed by another Farage barrage


No longer a skewed malicious mirage

Stronger imbued with pernicious camouflage

Wronger spewed such vicious sabotage

Doom Monger crude offici...

Why Your Cities Burn, Part III

......Gobayth’s mind was nearly crushed,
this was his life now, it appeared,
and all sorts of depressing thoughts
flooded his mind that first half-year.
Was this what life was really like
for most ...

Alfred the Great modern English translations by Michael R Burch

...KING ALFRED THE GREAT MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS

King Alfred the Great (c. 849-899), arguably the first great king of England,  may have done more to lay the groundwork for English literacy and l...

Pretty Paradox

...We are two flames,
Colliding and clashing,
Eroding our names,
Each other, slashing. 

Merging miraculously,
In some eternal timeline,
Vowing velvety love variously,
Flowing and floating as fi...

Shadows

...
For Suzette’s: Light or Shadow contest

“when you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives”
  Lauren Eden – The Lioness Awakens 

Shadows

the bear chases you arou...

Epitome Of Emptiness

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the titular touch 
     of 
sunburst dawn
              chromatic
     and 
moon masked night
              argentine
     builds 
the bud 
layer on layer
the blooming design 
     of ...

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