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Splay Poems - Poems about Splay

Premium Member Apollo and Daphne by Bernini A collaboration with Di11y Da11y
... 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
Premium Member Apollo and Daphne by Bernini - A Collaboration with David Kavanagh
...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 quicksil......

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Categories: splay, art,
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
... 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
... 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 Member Twelfth Caprice Of Casanova By Michael Cheval
...you never have to chop me open my mind/thoughts splay out readily some version of knowing me, gifted then on and off go gloves/mask til there's no truth or fight left nothing ......

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Categories: splay, art,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Harvest of Osyter Pearls
... 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 Member Dulcet Dawn
... 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 Member 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
Premium Member 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
Premium Member 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

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