Scorpion Sybarite
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Dark angel baring broken wing,
you’re the crier at night, days scorpion’s sting
Sybarite bon vivant emersed in ri...
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Categories:
sybarite, angel, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Tale of Dark Angels
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Expectations high did not pan out
Knight in shining armor not what you thought
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Categories:
sybarite, angel, anger, angst, character,
Form: Metrical Tale
The Epitaph of An Abdicator
... There sat in opulent xanadu, the
demagogue of empirical hedonism,
his granary once fuelled regal reign of epicureanism:
gregarious, restive, much-awaited successor of imperial...
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Categories:
sybarite, appreciation, education, eulogy, hero,
Form: Epitaph
The Seeker
...Its signs are writ upon the seeker's heart,
yet still, the seeker cannot ken those signs
until his heart becomes exposed to light… ~Rumi
Man is oblivious to the notion of Life,
the pec...
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Categories:
sybarite, philosophy,
Form: Carpe Diem
Abandon Dead Trails and Thy Sybarite Lust
...Abandon Dead Trails And Thy Sybarite Lust
If Nature's earthen-fires thy bosom holds
and thy heart's countenance mind's eye thus sees;
life serves best those adventurously bold,
walking worn pat...
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Categories:
sybarite, appreciation, art, autumn, deep,
Form: Sonnet
Lady Who Wore Her Lizards
...There is a man who sits still and counts me numbers ,
He had the nerve to stare me down to put me under ,
such deep eyes of sincerity indeed ,
There was no caution for him deliberately making me c...
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Categories:
sybarite, absence, addiction, anxiety, forgiveness,
Form: ABC
There Is But One Word
...Warning - Mature.
Sweet night, a blanket made from scented space - holds this would-be poet in its arms.
Tightly - yet with care. Caring - yet with passion. Smiles her heart. Trembles her dr...
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Categories:
sybarite, love, passion,
Form: Free verse
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 25
...Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 25
Followers are made from day one in the womb
Not gods but by men in the full-length skirt
Pavlov mice all salivate stunned stark in tomb
Do n...
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Categories:
sybarite, anti bullying, freedom, religion,
Form: Villanelle
Darkness Engulfs
...Darkness engulfs
Loneliness stings
black of darkness engulfs
Mood swings
pain of parting bluffs,
Desires denied
as all the plans trash,
My heart He spies
my subtle emotions crash...
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Categories:
sybarite, dark, death,
Form: Free verse
Growth and Fears
...I confess. I have come
to reckon death, as royalty.
To perish is to live. I
have learned to die freely.
Somewhere within a trance,
I came face to face with love.
She has devastated me unto l...
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Categories:
sybarite, lifegod, god, me,
Form: I do not know?
Tranquility of a Rose
...Beautiful fragrance
Fulfilling visual needs
Like a sybarite
Nathan Bane Leccese
©All Rights Reserved 05/29/2009...
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Categories:
sybarite, nature
Form: Haiku