Each star has a pattern of its Own
...The Moon
loves in lilac, sees in maroon,
swathed in gossamer and thyme of galaxies,
basking in the periwinkle pages
of my bejeweled mind,
as the night unravels a story
written in powdered vermi...
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Categories:
wolfsbane, life, light,
Form: Free verse
Alone on the Mountain
...The desolate perfection of solitude. The shiver of recognition that there is only one being on the mountain, and that’s you. The pine trees watch, the boulders brood, but there is no one there. The s...
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Categories:
wolfsbane, environment, loneliness, lonely, nature,
Form: Prose Poetry
Belles Lettres
...
“belles lettres”
It’s a slow drifting
off, that moment
before you dive
into the dark
you surface
to find a boat
surrounded by
shining pearls,
Styx, a mirror...
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Categories:
wolfsbane, dark, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Aconitum Ferox Poison
...It contains large quantities of the extremely toxic alkaloid pseudaconitine and is considered to be the most poisonous plant and one of the most poisonous in the world.In the past wolves and criminal...
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Categories:
wolfsbane, death, drink, drug, health,
Form: Tazkira
Werewolves Among Us
...
There are werewolves among us, or so it is said.
Not unlike what you conjure when you think “lycanthrope”.
They plot and they scheme for the blood they will shed;
they lurk in the shadow...
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Categories:
wolfsbane, internet,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
My Bleating Heart
...
Modern day scoffers say,
only the strong will survive
That the weak will be eaten alive
Only T-Rex,
cold-blooded logic will thrive
The talking serpents e-vol hiss,
instincts of comp...
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Categories:
wolfsbane, religious, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Narrative
Wolfsbane Dark Side Kib
...Arras seductive velvet plum
Alike bewitched, beshrew
Dispel this illusion
Reluctant to unfold its spell
Massy foliage threw
Living spirit seer
8/6/2019
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Categories:
wolfsbane, beauty, image, purple,
Form: Verse
The Five Word Challenge - the First Daughter of Eve
...My Father,
See the little serpents slither
Among the Wolfsbane, the Foxglove and the Daffodil
My mother distains the creatures,
And fears the beauty of my garden
Though I see splendor in their ...
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Categories:
wolfsbane, beautiful, desire, inspiration, life,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Bloom Not, Wolfsbane
...Bloom not, cruel wolfsbane
In this forward spirit of mine
Let the moon dim and wane
For love has diseased my kind
The girl was luscious in the wake
Rising at break of dawn
If only she knew I was a ...
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Categories:
wolfsbane, adventure, angst, depression, devotion,
Form: Ballad
Indicium
...black snakeroot, yew, cocklebur, poison (ivy, oak, parsnip, sumac, ryegrass, hemlock), blister bushes, daffodil, mayapple, lilium, jerusalem cherry, indian licorice, deadly nightshade, christmas rose...
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Categories:
wolfsbane, life,
Form: Free verse
An All Hallows Eve Rhyme
...Witches three and cauldron black
Of spells and charms there be no lack
At dark woods edge upon a bleak height
Stoking the fire in the oncoming night
Gray is the sky
black tree branches bare
t...
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Categories:
wolfsbane, holiday, imagination, mystery, dark,
Form: Free verse