Apollo and Daphne by Bernini A collaboration with Di11y Da11y
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We start at the end, with the warmth of his breath on her skin
Baulked by proximity, he never knew how to begin
A golden-tainted obsession, bitterly laced with lead
Transformed rapture to qu...
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Categories:
splay, art, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Gallery, The Gala, Larry, Part 1
...There, mustardseed scatter’d on firm cement
Frank’s sense all but gone as architect-
ural borders take shape: the cloister sports
Blue-green algae tanks | engineer-BREW
guard’d by python & htm...
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Categories:
splay, allegory, allusion, art, boyfriend,
Form: Free verse
On Seasickness
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A churning within gill and fin so low
with my tongue, she's tasted the aqua bowl
the dancing inside no place ever goes —
How the brig's see through from stem cells under;
what little chains...
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Categories:
splay, deep, innocence, loneliness, love,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Eye Blood You Barb
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Stiletto stare, wicked, wild hair, barbwire takes me there
Daggers, switchblades, and razorblades
Wait did I not mention hand grenades
My apologies in Spades
Take me fast, love me hard, you are...
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Categories:
splay, angst, anxiety, dark, death,
Form: Rhyme
Hollow Chest
...Bonfire fly it’s light high into the nigh
A flicker where I see you countenance
Ironically to splay the feast
In that glimmer
Something simmered
Two never be released
Touch me, rub me, kissy
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Categories:
splay, dark, gothic,
Form: Free verse
Sweet Tooth
...Grimoire enchantress beguiles vetala invictus, slicka min kisse, hehe just kidding, just a u’i lata spreading sugar, a sweet gift. A snarl like smile crosses my countenance as I manifest into a deity...
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Categories:
splay, beautiful, beauty, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Harvest of Osyter Pearls
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her ethereal gaze tucked me into nirvanic waves
tore me asunder amid quixotic abyss and seraphic throe
I harvest pearls from mollusks in swimming oysters
strip it in kaleidoscopic...
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Categories:
splay, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Dulcet Dawn
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The aromatic air ripples with the rhythm of rapture,
the harmonic whisper of the wafting southern wind
serenades in sync with the symphony of rhapsody,
when dawn drifts into enchanted meadow...
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Categories:
splay, analogy, beauty, nature,
Form: Free verse
Yet I Cling Long Version
...Blue
twinges
of lament
cast gaunt shadow
o’er my dreadful pang
as a grim mist segued
into dark claustrophobic
cantons where rabid zeal of hearts
once smouldered from magma’s deep red vein
Y...
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Categories:
splay, age, august, deep, feelings,
Form: Nonet
Tell Me How to Box-Breathe
...Breathe in,
1, 2, 3, 4.
Hold it,
1, 2, 3, 4.
Breathe out,
1, 2, 3, 4.
Hold it,
1, 2, 3, 4.
Breathe within the box
Feel as your lungs expand
Swallow the planet
1, 2, 3, 4.
Exhale your br...
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Categories:
splay, anxiety, growth,
Form: Free verse
tis grace
...Rearing up
before it lies
dark shadow cast
and block the sky
through bitter cold
and blazing light
even its might
now scars are borne
slippery grit
and loose stones
ledges narrow
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Categories:
splay, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cailleach Cove
...Cailleach Cove
I was told, Veiled One
if I came here to die
that you would come to me
Come to me
The echo in this cave is soothing
I think I...
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Categories:
splay, death, feelings,
Form: Other
The world watches and waits
..."An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,"
Israel's war crimes, a brutal truth..
The statistics are glaring and growing more bleak.
One thousand Gaze an children killed every week..
Fathers in ang...
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Categories:
splay, bereavement, children, death, war,
Form: Political Verse
Fantastic Four
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Cosmic rays catalyzed their mission
Mister Fantastic, Reed, led the group
He could stretch like atomic fission.
He bent and flexed to assist the troupe.
Before, girlfriend, later fianc...
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Categories:
splay, family, fantasy, fire, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Autumnal
...The breeze blows the somber summer screen away,
the silken sky revives to radiate the argentine allure,
clumps of cloud turning white cotton from canvas grey,
sail shapeless across the sp...
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Categories:
splay, autumn,
Form: Rhyme
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