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The labyrinth of the mind transforms into a somber temple, where glyphs of thought intertwine

...The labyrinth of the mind transforms into a somber temple, where glyphs of thought intertwine,
And beneath the dome of the nocturnal sky, hearts like ancient scrolls unfold and burn in incantations....

Categories: sphinxes, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

If You Pull a Long Face - Part Ix

...IF YOU PULL A LONG FACE : IX

IF you pull a long face
Being born with a long face bytheway
Then you have at worst a problem face
None will know if you're sad or gay

Now if you keep pulling...

Categories: sphinxes, judgement, racism, satire, word
Form: Dramatic Monologue

A Bohemian Maze of True Evil

...Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit for...

Categories: sphinxes, creation, dark, evil, god,
Form: Narrative

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

A Bohemian Maze of True Evil

...A Bohemian Maze of True Evil

Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down...

Categories: sphinxes, dark, evil, fantasy, god,
Form: Narrative

A Bohemian Maze of True Evil

...Once so loyal and always true the gargoyles watch everything now
During their stony slumbers with their careful one-eyed open view,
As evil red-eyed demons rain down upon us in their dark-sprit for...

Categories: sphinxes, dark, evil, fantasy, god,
Form: Narrative

The Dying Wasp

...She vibrates, a chassis minus shock absorption.
A painting, the nude descends a staircase,
rings of Saturn etched in a vacuum tube.
Or Eniac of twisted cords and switchboards.

She isn't program...

Categories: sphinxes, insect, technology,
Form: Imagism

Dunes of Guadalupe

...For many years, there the sphinxes lay
Entombed in decorated silent graves,
Whose reminiscence amaze the present day.
When deities emerge out of nine decades.
 
The lost city unearthed something...

Categories: sphinxes, adventure, allusion, bible, culture,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Summer Dreaming

...This is the third
time
I've planted
climbing roses

The first two failed
to fulfill
my romantic fantasy
of
efflorescent roses
flaunting their
naughty
frilly pink bodice
and hooped skirts...

Categories: sphinxes, magic,
Form: Free verse

Ancient Egypt Full Story

...Nile stretches like serpent from abyss
Because it nourishes the desert it reflects universal bliss
On its shores Cleopatra gave Mark Anthony a kiss
Where she turned a ruler from a princess

That...

Categories: sphinxes, fantasy, universe,
Form: Rhyme

Ghostwriter Madly In Love

...Happily piling in,
The discount store games begin
tis the season to be jolly but
Dont ****ing touch me!-
beneath the holly
I dont know where that mouths been
and look at those clothes!
thrift store t...

Categories: sphinxes, friendship, funny, love,
Form: Free verse

New Futures Borne

...Intergalactic travel reveals some kinks.
Man visited mars and left a sphinx.
Cydonia and Mesopotamia saw new futures borne.
The “Tower of Babel” and ancient technology…men mourn.
Was man’s “spiri...

Categories: sphinxes, imagination, sciencetravel,
Form: Couplet

The Pharaoh's Scarabe Necklace

...I was trudging with deep thirst amid scorching sand dunes,
when suddenly the desert wind
hurled me against an ancient tomb;
and as the swivel door swiftly opened, my fear increased.


What was ...

Categories: sphinxes, art, imagination, mystery, peopleme,
Form: Quatrain

Brilliant St. Petersburg

...Ah, what beauty around!
This day began deliberately.
Even the sky and river Neva have a same a blue colour.
Between them domes fly,
and a thin steeple rises
with a little gold ship at the top.
...

Categories: sphinxes, art, history, nostalgia, places,
Form: Lyric