Amid droning incantations
Products of arcane summations
Upon a scrying pool of mist
A sorcerous enchantment hissed
Magic brews and ancient spells
A portal forms to where it dwells
A red drops rides a glimmering blade
Summoning forth the witching shade
In answer to some secret burning
A effort born of frantic yearning
A heavy price for a boon required
A balanced scale for all desired
In darkness born, in darkness relayed
Only of darkness is such knowledge made
(5 Senryus)
I’m excited - the
republican convention!
I love magic shows.
They will reveal, with
sorcerous skills a new Trump
- bighearted, and selfless.
The man we all know,
the emotionally crippled
horror, will wear disguise.
Who will be deceived?
The children in cages will cheer,
the virus dead will smile.
Our Nazis will march,
ghosts of veterans will wail,
What a fine party.
PREDATOR EAST WIND
Her skeletal penetrating fingers
Find a cold way into the least crack with ease.
Burst pipes with sorcerous wand.
Silently freeze the pond
With her sly icy feast of water.
Will kill off last year’s life; can
Pry the warm flesh off old autumn
Leaves - only cold bones.
When the blood- red of moon acts as a backdrop,
In your arms I begin to feel this night’s potion
Beguiling hours as we sway to the beat;
Our flesh clings near, nearer with night’s alchemy…
So let us dance on a field where Jack lanterns dim
Where stars circle around the ebon night sky,
Awakening rabid thrills of a ghostly trance.
With my velvet frock, O tango me caress me
Till the pinch into love’s rite sparks a witching moan,
A cauldron of incantation heating in whirled bliss…
And while the city screeches from October’s devilry,
Just dance me right, we’ll play old raven’s quick flight
Before moon’s credo turns us into iced zombies,
A sorcerous twirl we must replay next Hallows Eve.
10.19.2016
Theme: Love
Galeo DS’ Contest : May I Dance With You
Avenged adult world
Fishy funny kids’ play world
The saturnine feast.
Sorcerous* Nox night
Lone places yawn hell pervades
global fun-disease
Ghosts grovel and then wolves weep
Goblins grin skeletons sway
Thus the streets savaged
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* Roman goddess of night
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Date: 28th Sept'13
Dr. Ram Mehta
Contest: Everything Halloween by Russell Sivey
Changed climate is not a surprise
With drilling for gas on the rise
Where can life forms hide
From carbon dioxide
And methane let loose in the skies?
Neo-druids auger gas wells
And add fluids with sulfurous smells!
Are poisons they've tapped
With their magic wands trapped
Evermore by sorcerous spells?
Votes and news seem not relevant
The unrelenting elephant
In all our best rooms
Is fossil fuel's fumes
And toxins we can't circumvent
O gilded tongue, I dare not speak, your eyes my ruin flash
Seek not the curse, doth silence scream, beg mercy, your agash
Agash is a game played by the Pashtuns in Pakistan
Unsundering is a magical battle fought in the 24th
century by followers of this belief. (thanks Charles!)
08/12/12
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