Tag: poetry
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#44
Wolf-shard, piercing, sorrow breaks bread at our table frost-shard, rending, you, betrayed, having lost it all, find yourself, threshed out, dreaming my love, the world-shard shudders beneath our feet, the Exile, weighed down, too understands the weight of a soul, you, weighed down, remember
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#43
Collector of misshapen hearts manifestation of your madness condense like spite upon the windowsill, trespasses of mind and body find themselves crosshatched, residing before absent gods we, outlasting them all, serve witness, you, outlasting us all, alone, serve to witness, your flint-shapen becoming
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#42
Stowaway fled alongside April sever the spiral that which escaped the threshing floor, thrice reconciled and made manifest before a convergence of fortune and fate imposes itself once more you, flower of my heart, shelter our rose, you, inviolable, resist
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#41
Ferrier of fortune, fingers stiff with age, your horses gone to pasture, shave down the ever-diverging day, shape it according to health and desire the songs of your youth are not yet lost to yesterday, they too, have been passed along, translated from string and harmony to verse, plunged into the inkwell, spilled joyfully upon…
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#40
You, desirable according to the nature of unusual things, free from ambition, shake loose the spinning gear the altruistic cannot see, that which lays beyond their best intentions became the foundation of her misery my love, your footprints, a convergence of fate and fortune are your own, unable to be claimed or plundered by another…
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#39
Adolescence, unfolding, lay your fear before the alter, northward, smoke rises from the steer, upon the stones, before the threshold, your self-knowledge, bitter no longer, unfolds, your self-knowledge, unfolding, stumbles into manhood you, waiting beyond the threshold, wait for me, you, knowing only gentleness, come into you
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#38
Brimstone, sunken, seeks out a star, your smile, forced between clenched teeth, belays sorrow beyond the scope of expression or understanding my words, laden down, stick in my windpipe, yours, silent, well up and fall like raindrops on the intersection of Meridian and Linder road we, astride, wander the hedges, we, seeking out a star,…
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#37
Unburdened, The principle of your heart, cloven beneath a willow, behind the paddock, between two loves, a poet and a saint, feet set in opposition as they were before perhaps, soon, they will stumble upon the wellspring of burgeoning self-knowledge, an expression of the soul sustained beyond the bounds of transcorporeality, beyond the limits of…
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#36
Paint the sky with hope, split the edge of light with a brushstroke, the horizon folds itself along your jawline close to me, like ink upon the skin between my shoulders my love, we sowed the seeds of our salvation unto exile, we packed down the dust of youth, we watered the beds with grief…
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#35
Your heart, conflicted, finds itself again besides the spinning gear, our fate drawn out behind a dung-beetle, unconcerned by those things which pull you forward that she left to yesterday, they multiply, mired in misery, curses, force fed, a hypocrite’s repose masked in righteousness how long then, until, mature, they break free, threshed out,…
Black ink and sunbeams poetry 