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Splay Poems - Poems about Splay

Premium MemberApollo 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

Premium MemberHarvest 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

Premium MemberDulcet 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

Premium MemberYet 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

Premium MemberCailleach 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

Premium MemberThe 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

Premium MemberFantastic 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

Premium MemberAutumnal

...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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