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Nihilist

Farcical, extravagant 
My birthmark is a scar 
A speckled blotch ...
A spot of pox 
An icon from afar 

I'm an upstart, I'm an eyesore 
Ranting with a flair
In a tempest, I'm a rabid bird 
Setting fire to the air 

As dauntless as a hellhag 
Unmoved by love or care 
I can hold up in a cyclone 
Feasting on your fear 

I'm your last hope 
As a laughingstock 
I'm your courage in a dare 
As audacious as a terrorist 
With death-defying hair 

When it's time to play the tragic fool 
I'm as flagrant as a glare 
Seething with a vengeance
In a tantrum of despair

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On the Wind

I recall the vile pun
 The woeful scream, the solemn bribe
 The nagging prayer, the foreign tongue
 The grave and liquid cry

 She gathered beasts, she beckoned blight
 A splendid bane between her stammers
 And in the panic, an endless night
 Enticing in its glamour

 She had a flair for cryptic verse
 The fabled hag's fatal charm
 For want of blessings she swore a curse
 A well-rehearsed spell of harm

 She took an oath, destroyed a star
 Unleashed a secret from below
 And in an instant from afar
 Brought forth a plague from long ago

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The Hollow

I am the hope inside
 That feeds on tide and wind
 As ocean shores abide
 A storm's subsiding din 

 I am the joy that died
 Before the world took wing
 Where cold and dark things hide
 Beneath a cheerful grin

 I am the vacant eye
 The black and gaping stare 
 The vain and cunning lie
 That only truth can bear 

 Where raging hearts surrender
 I drop anchor there
 As dying embers stir
 And faith invokes despair

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Necromancer

I appear with the unbegotten 
 In the hollows of the seen 
 A shadow of the soon forgotten 
 I enter through the dream

 Inhabiting the void 
 In the source of germ and seed 
 I bring forth the undestroyed 
 As time and space recede 

 In nightmares where the banished dwell 
 In spells inciting ire 
 I swallow up a newborn hell 
 Bound by wind and fire 

 Snuffing out a sun or two 
 As a galaxy expires 
 I take root in empty truths 
 With flesh as my attire

 As ill-starred seers stutter 
 And oracles retire 
 I awake the muted echoes 
 In the ruins of desire 

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Rusalka

She flickers in the borderland
 In the mirror and the marsh
 Sparkling like the morning dew
 On a grateful corpse

 In the bog her murmuring
 The echo of a cry
 Travels on the plaintive wind
 Like a phantom sigh

 The merest of a semblance
 Shadowed by the moon
 In the murk appears to flirt
 Behind the sinking dunes

 Like an orphan of the sea
 Or a widow of the sands
 She shrivels in the noon day sun
 Glimmering in strands

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A Fine Frenzy

The word is born of wind and water
 Of winters white and long
 The shape and form of ode and image
 The air of breath and song

 Bending like a willow branch
 Casting wicked spells
 Twisting like a wounded tree
 Fed by holy wells

 Giving birth to magic verse
 Bound by hill and vale
 Burning like a fated curse
 Reversed by force of gale

 The word is born of craft and guile
 Of trickery and vice
 Of witchery and cunning wiles
 Of sage and wise advice

 Of rolling waves and winding vines
 Of guarded healing springs
 Of wild woods and blood red wine
 And the roar of beating wings

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Mirage

Is this the ghost within
 Poking through my skin
 Crashing through a mask or two 
 Rapping as I cringe

 Is this the part that dreams
 Is this the part that sings
 Or the sharp tooth on a devil's wing
 Searching for a scream

 Is this the task at hand
 The host that makes demands
 Or some vagrant in a mirror world
 Too worn out to stand

 I thought I was alone
 With this wind that bites my bones
 My higher self, a drunken elf
 Too spaced out to phone

 Is this my shadow on the run
 Some hope without a home
 Is this the love I dared to shun
 Or the god that I disowned

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Untold

We are the unbegotten 
 We are the unassigned
 Redeemed from oblivion 
 Kept out of mind 

 We are the great rotation 
 Unfolding the sublime 
 An echo of obliteration
 Returning with the tides 

 Unmarked by boundaries 
 Before the birth of lines
 Inhabiting voided forms 
 Unrevealed by signs 

 Dissolving like a vision 
 Or a phantom of the blind
 We are the soon forgotten 
 In the reckonings of time

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Relics

I don't mind if you climb inside 
 This stump I left behind 
 This lump of rot whose body parts 
 Broke free of dotted lines 

 Pluck a tooth, score a limb
 Scrawl a note or two 
 In this lair of desert air 
 There's room for both of you

 Odds and ends amidst the mud 
 Insinuate a face
 A thin disguise free of love
 Cheeks the wind erased

 An alibi for skin and hair 
 Where only dust resides 
 Crumbled like an arid lie 
 Free of human fear 

 So grab some stringy gristle 
 A brittle part will do 
 Or a compact mass of bone and grass
 With the mellow scent of dew 

 I don't mind if you grin or pout 
 If you're whole or if you're broken 
 Despite my rugged gutter mouth 
 My door is always open

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One-Eyed Muse

She was just a phantom gleam
 In the shadow of the light
 As old as the oldest dream
 On a cold and tranquil night

 As fluid as mythic love
 As palpable as fright
 Trembling in awe
 In the grasp of delight

 As sad as a memoir
 On an empty page
 As lonely as a widow
 Dancing in the rain

 She returned like a song
 In the memory of the dead
 Repeating like a nagging voice
 Inside a madman's head

 And as moist as the dullest thought
 In a melting brain
 She dribbled like a lunatic
 Muttering in pain

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