We All Float
...In the tenebrous, xenial realm of the lake, where human cadavers oscillate, suspended by verdigris chains, a lamia of unholy provenance, orchestrates a gambits cavalcade.
Each mortal she ensnares,...
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Categories:
tomblike, dark,
Form: Free verse
Something Like Me and You
...I want us to swim,
In our new bodies,
Which buttress our boney disproportion.
I want the fish to be enticed,
By our old skins
Which serve as useless armour to this world.
I want the cold to be unre...
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Categories:
tomblike, loss, love, ocean, sister,
Form: I do not know?
The Scent of God
...(This poem is dedicated to Beryl Singleton Bissell, whose book of this name
reveals her love affair and sometime contretemps with God. I thank her for
graciously consenting to a poetic adoption of...
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Categories:
tomblike, allegory, mystery, planet,
Form: Free verse
The Watchdog
...I have seen them
strutting like cockerels on podiums
sweating like pigs in their ill-fitting suits
words bubbling out of their snake forked tongues
-democracy!- development!- unity!
I have seen them...
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Categories:
tomblike, social,
Form: Narrative
Resurrection
...After a painful walk
Through the dark of night
Where anger is the talk
In unforgiving realms of strife
His love shone through
Lightening tomblike coves
That allowed a better view
Raising in th...
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Categories:
tomblike, faith, hope, inspirational
Form: Rhyme