Hide Your Bones
...Look for the bones in shattered statues.
Look for the missing, the mauled limbs,
do not blame time,
seek out the mob,
you will find then hiding in plain sight.
Look for the bones of the Yamaka...
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Categories:
slavering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Meat
...The snow wolves have escaped,
they feast now
upon the warm red meat
of human hearts.
In a famine of faith
winter wolves grow stronger.
It is not the wolves
that we blame with a savage name,
...
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Categories:
slavering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Sitter
...The Sitter
There it is
Sitting in the old wicker chair
Grinning its foul slavering grin
It moves nothing than its face.
Every night it appears
Until waking and shaking
I reach for the pull...
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Categories:
slavering, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Calcivore, Part Iv
...IV.
Fronds whipped their faces, they dashed through the trees,
more shrill, raspy growls rose behind them,
creatures crashed through forest, giving them chase,
they weren’t that fast, but came re...
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Categories:
slavering, adventure, animal, dark, death,
Form: Narrative
Red Flag
...Some part of him tore its robes,
some other part stitched them
together.
Don't say he is awkwardly made
he had to get dressed in the dark.
He eats boneless words, stays inside himself
paintin...
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Categories:
slavering, poetry,
Form: Free verse
City
...The zealously guarded
Verdant pasture of
The city club
Attract like filings
To a magnet
A herd of undernourished
Hungry city buffaloes
Just as their slavering lips
Pull at the first mouthfuls...
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Categories:
slavering, urban,
Form: Free verse
Brutus
...Brutus, my slavering Rottweiler, growls
He knows he's tougher than pooches with tails
The long pointed studs on his black leather collar
Are matched by his canines which make poodles holler
The...
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Categories:
slavering, animal, dog, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Lucifers Lullaby
...Your slumber is long overdue
So hush as I sing this for you
Now sleep the entire night through
As your mummy and I hope to do
Your mummy seemed really quite certain
There’s no-one hid behind t...
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Categories:
slavering, Lullaby, nursery rhyme, satire,
Form: Rhyme
Mouth Trap
...~ for Sami ~
oh ...
a pity, that …
such sweet sadness, yours
my lovely lass, lost ...
do not let your lip tremble so ...
it was not made for such iniquity
it was not shaped to
sublime...
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Categories:
slavering, analogy, kiss, metaphor, passion,
Form: Free verse
The Dentist
...‘Hello Mister Thompson, please can you take a chair!’
‘This one?’ I asked. She said, ‘no that one over there!’
Now I’m sure I heard a scream, or was is just a shout?
Should I ask the receptionist ...
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Categories:
slavering, humorous, silly,
Form: Rhyme
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Version - 2 - 16
...As they reach the golden gates,
turning, they do face the foe,
the Arlaghs,
they would come with power and might,
too kill,
the ground will shake when they charge,
they shall run hard for their...
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Categories:
slavering, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Epic
Impuissance Seed
...Was a more selfish weapon so created
those maleficent hands hold themselves acquitted
and in the brutality of its design
deem luxury to be their self sustainable narcotic
But upon such a fake e...
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Categories:
slavering, corruption, drug, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Original Version - 2
...2.
Off into the distance, total darkness,
to the right where all was light
Divinity thy beast is coming
from his land of endless night.
The thunder and the lightning playing
terrors own sweet...
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Categories:
slavering, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Brian the Veggie Lion
...Brian The Veggie Lion
The trackers all dressed in their safari suits
Trekked over plains in their safari boots
In search of an animal that was called Brian
A statuesque beast in the shape of a ...
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Categories:
slavering, africa, animal, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
A Lycanthrope Moon
...It was long gone midnight, and nervously I walked
There was something in the bushes, I was being stalked.
I could smell it's fetid breath, It was lurking in the dark
It scared me half to death as ...
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Categories:
slavering, fantasy, horror, howl,
Form: Rhyme
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