Category Archives: Poetry

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Skyfall

The planets are too close Across horizons hang As glowing, ripened fruit They’ve sneaked up upon us As we slept Into our atmosphere They’ve crept Like children who were lost too long ago The planets hover now The vehicles of … Continue reading

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Eating the Bitter – for Prompt 62 Chi Ku

We are all children of a diseased god Random atoms, we are scattered like seeds in fallow but deceiving earth We plough life with death to birth life anew The fruit so sweet upon our tongue turns rancid in our … Continue reading

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Remember to Forget

So many years have quickly passed Each seven we begin anew Our cellular forms will not outlast The schism where our feelings grew Your face is but dim memory May well be changed now too, and yet I find I … Continue reading

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Frozen

Air of crystal A thousand years waiting Peaceful, still The earth is breathing slow Beneath the ice and water Waiting to be born On such a perfect morn Frozen like perfection A god’s painting Which he cannot dispossess Held like … Continue reading

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Becomes Me – for Prompt 61 – Toska

Twilight becomes me The purple-black shade of in-between Stars struggle to ignite In an opaque sky Moments before the light Falls as broken wings Years of waiting have become Mere sacred ritual The white, the red, the black I light … Continue reading

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Hallway Steps

These hallway steps lead to nowhere or to somewhere far, far worse I’ve heard it told in whispered corners all these things that they would warn us Talk of devils and of danger and a curse These hallways steps lead … Continue reading

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Ask

He said that he may ask but once And should you get your answer wrong The whiplash on your skin would tell Your misery and your dullard’s song He said that should he ask you twice If generous natured was … Continue reading

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Killing Place

These streets beyond are narrow, dark Their lights wink with a dying grace Within the perimeter of the park They come to find the killing place Their hooded garb and blackened cloaks Hide centuries of deep regret You hear the … Continue reading

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Pieces – for Alzheimers Writing prompt

These pieces are missing These pieces are gone The fondest of memories The dreams dreamt upon They are gone These eyes are so heavy They’re burdened with pain Saying the same things Again and again She’s in pain So lost … Continue reading

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Muse

Your beautiful face Etched upon my memory Of pity, no trace Deeper muse to me Arising from your dark eyes Beguiled fantasy There is no surprise The wellspring in this place What depths comprise Your beautiful face Repeating in the … Continue reading

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