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Coalescence in (and of) Poetry
Chatoyant stargazer, you with
skin as opulent as spring itself
hair a realm where fairies roam
limbs redolent of riverbed soil
lead me to the illusive seams
of this halcyon of gossamer dreams
over orion and past the eye of god
Grandiloquent desiderata, you are
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ocean, suicide.
let me slip forward, off the algae-
covered cliff, so i may rejoin my brothers
and sisters in the waves;
so i may cuddle the sunrise and mourn
the dusk at dinnertime. i swallow blood
by mere chance, the meal a
steal to the shark
nibbling away gently at my wrinkly toes;
eulogizing and crying,
froths embracing my face, tears a foreign delight
to my tired eyes.
the sea and i,
are one. a mother and child,
anthem to appraisal, living to death, contrast
to collapse:
hearts to
b e a t.
jaws of ocean sweetness snap shut, holding
the fingers of sugar and
saltwater still at my throat’s opening,
bursting through my lungs
in the end: remain! a
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.
the tender weeds they tumble
into the fusty damp;
they shrivel -
curl like ribbons
adorning your grave.
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SleentheBeast approached me this morning about coming up with a small poem for this piece; I thus came up with this. I hope he likes it.
Check out the finished version here:
June 22, 2014
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cicada song
brilliant counterpoint
to far away flickers
brilliant counterpoint
to far away flickers