a very happy birthday to lady Lascivious Lace of Camelot.
A #gift wrapped surprise
Silken and smooth
Spread upon Egyptian cotton
Tempting his mood
Sensuous curves
Caressed by the night
A feast for his eyes
His craving appetite
#SensualScribbles
In the blackest hour
Well past midnight
When all good men are asleep
An echo stirs
A veil is lifted
Comes the dread hour of the beast
All is silent
No breath of wind
Tis the dark night of the soul
That knows no rest
Nor peace on earth
For it is broken & no longer whole
#MadVerse
Where #tranquil waters flow
There shall you find me
Resting my soul in quiet reflection
Bathing my mind in soft contemplation
#vss365
This web of desire
This tantric tapestry
That weaves a spell
And oh so very well
Entangled we dance
Cavort within threads
Forgetting the world
No tears anymore shed
Ecstasy wraps tight
Whips us without mercy
Stretched end to end
In adorned beauty
#MadVerse
🎨 Aesthetic
It came one Winter
As I recall
As the temperature dropped
And snow did fall
To drape the land
In virgin raiment
And quiet did settle
A frosty pageant
And folk did huddle
Beside fires alight
To warm themselves
Through those long Wintery nights
#poetry
From still smouldering ashes
Redolent of blood and war
Linger with unholy resonance
The blood curdling spirit of #Enyo
Oh how the very air hangs heavy
Suffocating
Drowning
Struggling to breathe
Urgent with desperate violence
The crushing end is nigh
#macabrewords
Each word a dagger thrust
Swift and true - piercing deep
Hands making #stabby gestures
Designing his imminent demise
Wordlessly she watched
Awaiting the final fall
Patience was after all a virtue
And by now she'd seen it all
#macabrewords
Mesmerised
#hypnotised
Possessed
He holds my heart
My mind surely follows
My soul is my own
My body he may borrow...
#vss365
#shattered & broken
A life torn apart
Tattered remains scattered
Left to rot in the dark
All a big mystery
The townsfolk keep quiet
Scared & superstitious
Or they'll end up just like it
So don't say a word
Or ask anyone
Let sleeping dogs lie
Or your time'll come
#DarkLines 603
#amorous fingers walk a curious path
Across warm, firm, suntanned flesh
Salacious explorations beckon
A crimson smile betrays her intent
To hear him moan her name
Or at the very least - beg...
#vss365
For just a moment
A mere pause in time
Love was a #glimmer
Deep set in those eyes
That spoke to me
Brought me to the edge
Held me poised and breathless
On my knees I did pledge
To be his alone
Til death do us part
Forever and ever
Well, at least it's a start
#vss365
His words a sweet #serenade
His touch a seductive caress
The night is our haven
Where we can be alone
Far from the whispers
The gossiping tongues
That judge without knowing
They can't see our hearts
Or know where we're going
In those small wee hours
As the clock ticks on
#vss365
Tasting lips linger
Carnal #esteem heightens heat
The rapturous burn
#Eroticismfan
#kindle my imagination
Nurture the tender flame
A conflagration there shall be
In your name!
#15wordspoet
I hear his key
Tumbling the lock
As I long
To be tumbled
Tangled
By him
Those dark eyes
Mesmerising
Lock with mine
Drawing me closer
His growled #murmur
Wraps around
A seductive cloak
My will to his bound
Addicted
Craving
His touch profound
#SeduceMeSundayWrite
📸Vettriano
#Halloween creeps
Shadows do seep
A wolf howls
A mouse cheeps
Ghouls and ghosts
Zombie undead
From their tombs do rise
Hungering to be fed...🎃
Hypnotic colour
Kaleidoscopic chaos
A matter of taste
#haitechnique
Thunder rolled
Lightning ****
My #chance came
Never going back!
#PenYourTen
Silence pervades
Anticipation builds
Senses reach out
Silken binds strain
A footstep
An exhale
The rasp of leather
The scent of a male
Ever closer
She breathes him in
Craving the attention
The depth of his carnal sin
#poetry
#Iamwriting
Yeah she was the real deal alright. Made to make a man forget all his problems, at least for a night. Curves with no warning to lure a joe right in. An' send him cryin' back to mama afterwards. Call me a sap but those baby blues ripped out my soul.
#NOIR
@Banquozghost
🎨RobLevin
Smoky interiors
Bourbon soaked air
Meeting in shadows
Passions laid bare
Sweet jazz playing soft
Lights turned down low
Inhibitions cast aside
No one need know
Strangers to lovers
Assignations every night
Wine #Chilling on ice
Somethings just feel right
#Erotica280
🎨 Vettriano
Running in my dreams
Chasing all my hopes
#sleepwalking in the shadows
Hunting down those leads
I never can remember
How everything turns out
Awakening comes way too soon
And I'm left wondering
Wrapped in pensive doubt
#vss365
Don't #sugarcoat it, darlin'
Just tell it like it is
You're leaving me for another
And on a night like this
She may cook just like mama
Fill your plate and more
But she can't do what I do
Dig up the bodies neath the floor
....
#vss365
The thing I dread most
In the depths of the night
That blood chilling moment
A deafening silence blight
As thick mists still swirled
Shifting patterns did they make
Veiling blood soaked ground
Body parts hung on stakes
Festive garlands of gore
To decorate the shore
#horrorprompt
Burn, baby, burn *eyes bright in the flickering golden glow of the #campfire, lips curving in pleasure as flames leapt skyward to consume the writhing figure lashed in glorious splendour to the beam atop the smouldering pyre* give my love to the Devil when you meet*
#vss365
Down dark alleyways
Lost among shadows
Where only the brave
Or the very foolhardy
Play Russian roulette
With what's left of their souls
Rent and torn eons ago
Love and lies and stereotypes
Bought and then sold
Searching for something
Lying in gutters
Gazing at stars
#moonmystic
Look to the North
And wait and watch
Upon wild winds
Shall they sweep south
Riders on the storm
With banshee cries
Their swords and shields
Brandished high
Eager for blood
They ravage the land
Destruction their aim
Vengeance their plan
#53rdEdition
#SlamWords 2
To walk in the sun
The warmth upon my face
Is a dream, a fantasy
In my world so out of place
Endless night is my curse
A lonely path do I walk
Silent in the shadows
There's no need to talk
#SlamWords #53rdEdition R4
I'm hurricane drunk
And lost in the storm
Chasing tequilas
And bourbon shots
Drowning in memories
Numbing the pain
So set 'em up bartender
An' keep a rollin' tab
Things are just gettin' started
An' they're gonna get bad
#SlamWords #53rdEdition - R9
Clear skies that once were overcast
Sparkle with a brilliance I hope will last
#SlamWords #53rdEdition #encore - r1
Time hangs heavy here in the bayou
Sluggishly slow as sweet molasses
Nights creep in with thick dense fog
To shroud the creatures of the dark
Ghosts of the past that linger still
The land of their birth and their kill
#SlamWords #53rdEdition #encore - R4
Kissed awake by morning frost
Mother Nature's chill blessing
The land a glittering jewel
& the heavens grew jealous
Envious of such dazzling shine
They called upon the lowering clouds
2 shield the radiance of the sun
& drown such brilliance
#SlamWords #53rdEdition #encore - R6
Chance of rain? I'd say its good
But not if you're planning on burying bodies out in the wood
Last storm that passed washed the ground clear away
Four Fingered Earl's still in prison to this day
Fool should've buried 'em way deeper
#SlamWords #53rdEdition #encore - R7
He swept into Tombstone like a prairie fire
Set the world to rights for the folks over there
Tornado Warning should've been tattooed on his head
If folks didn't follow his rules well they'd soon wind up dead
#SlamWords #53rdEdition #encore - R8
Counting down the seconds
How slowly they drag
When you're plummeting earthward
Wings clipped and on fire
Almost floating in a haze
Pressure falling all around you
Nothing more to lose
Just another soul hell bent
On giving the earth a bruise
#SlamWords #53rdEdition #encore - R9
A cascade of memories
Heavy showers of emotion
They rain down
Drenching my heart
Drowning my soul
Sweeping me away
Upon an ocean tide
To some lonely Island
Where I and my thoughts
Shall together long abide
#SlamWords #53rdEdition #encore - R10 (final)
#fingerprints
Just #fingerprints
All that remain
Forever preserved
Locked in stone
Of a soul that lived
Breathed and loved
A long time ago
Yet as I touch
Trace their form
My soul remembers
Aches for what was
What can never be
Eternity forever
Between you and me
#vss365
The lonely road we walk
Unfolding before us
Twisting - turning
Blind corners
Hidden bends
Sometimes with strangers
Sometimes with friends
Yet in the end
Always alone
#MoonMystic
Teasing lips curve in soft invitation
The half empty bottle of Jack lifted
"this'll cure whatever ails you*
A hand reaches out
Shots are poured
A silent toast offered
Both know the score
"Big Joe sends his regards"
Is all that's said
Smirking
Choking
He slumps dead
#vss365
Tender threads
Silken strands
Gossamer braids
Tangled
Entwining
That trap us all
Secrets & lies
Lost to the thrill
Illicit temptation
Seduced by the fall
Time & again
Cannot resist
The lure of his touch
Drawn to his kiss
Tormented by needs
Ah such bliss
#moonmystic
🎨Ron Lesser
High heel temptation
At his command all night long
Stocking serenade
#haiku
Cascading #ecstasy of emotion
#4wordspoet
What my mind long #forgot
My heart still remembers
#enneadpoet
🎨 vettriano
Think you can run?
Think you can roam?
The past is a noose
No "welcome home"
Cast out by the pack
Yet never running free
Hunted for blood
Always looking back
So fly little bird
But not too high
The fall is a long one
& you're still going to die
#DarkLines 591
He is my dark fix
My deep carnal addiction
I am his haven
#haiku
#hypothetical scenarios
Playing on my mind
"What ifs"
and
"why nots"
The lies I might find
Do I want to know?
Do I really care?
Or let the night play out
Neath a street light's flare
#vss365
Scatter diamonds across the heavens
Hang high a shining silver moon
Let stardust paint iridescent wonder
The Gods themselves do verily swoon
#poetry
As the moon waned
Slid slowly from the sky
Shadows shifted
Morphed & pooled
Congealing dark disguise
#transmutation threat
They walk among us still
Cloaking dark intent
Hungering to kill
Without conscience
No pity at their core
Devil take the hindmost
This is war!
#macabrewords
Weave webs of wicked temptation
Immerse my mind in passion's flame
#ensconce your voice inside my head
Drown out inhibition in your wild game
Command my will and I am yours
Carnal addiction the sensual disease
Your touch, your scent the only cure
#Eroticismfan
📸sexPicturesPass
With a silken flow
Mesmerising drawl
Words spilled from his lips
How #eloquently they did fall
Like a moth to a flame
I was drawn ...enthralled
Willing to burn
To sear my soul
#VerseAngel 509
He was brimstone and fire
Thunder and rage
She was a waterfall
A cooling cascade
#poetry
#iamwriting
His touch
His voice
His scent
His heat
Wove
A spell
A web
Of temptation
Seduction
Lit a fire
A conflagration
My centre melted
I succumbed
His name a prayer
Upon my tongue
#Eroticismfan
#shame would not be her master
Let them point and gossip
Spread their merciless poison
The past was another world
She'd outrun far worse
Yet still the rumours followed
Her neverending burden and curse
#vss365
#inevitable or so they said
Crumbling fortunes to match their luck
Haunted souls scratching a living
Barely alive their spirits long gone
Nothing left but empty vessels
Wandering mildewed hallways
Drifting with the dust motes
Left to linger by an uncaring world
#horrorprompt 548
Think you can run?
Think you can hide?
Hot on your heels
I'll soon have your hide
Betrayal your mistake
Murder so much worse
I'll be your nightmare
Your demonic curse
Cold breath on your neck
Sharp teeth sinking deep
You'll never hear me coming
From the shadows I creep
#poetry
She was a wish
The promise that he craved
He was her haven
White Knight bold and brave
#poetry
One of a #kind
One of the best
No one like her
So different from the rest
And around her they gathered
No peace could she win
From the stares and the whispers
The neverending demanding din
#vss365
A key in the lock
Step upon the floor
A single command
My knees hit the floor
#pulse rate quickened
I could barely breathe
The slide of his hand
Between my knees
Lips grazed my neck
Teeth tenderly nipped
His tongue an erotic lash
Over the precipice I tipped
#Eroticismfan
Waste of a drink, Joe
Tossing it away
On a piece of trash
Who won't see the light of day
Again...
Man had it coming
Yeah, in spades 2
Ain't gonna lie, Joe
He got what was due
But the cops ain't gonna like it
If'n they ever found out
Say, from a little bird
Who knew where 2 shout
Pulse pounding hypnotic horror
Leads me down in death defying spirals
To one frightening encounter after another
Where demonic thrills and chills prowl
Hungry to feast upon mortal souls
Their ravenous appetites too long unappeased
#darkcircus #madcarnival #madVerse
...
A marionette enmeshed in a web of imagination
Cast by the Ringmasters demonic whims
This mesmerising seductive darkness
That beckons me onward unto my fickle fate
Denying this feeling of unease
To pull me under a sweeping tide of menace
#madcarnival #darkcircus
#madVerse
...
Dark Cinderella without any hope
Lost in a city so cruel and black
She dreams of a day one day to come
When shell walk in silver beneath the sun
#WrittenRiver
10/19 Prompt 1558 (pic): Art by unknown
...
In myriad hues
Captured in my heart
Shall I think of you
Cool red in passions flame
Wrapped in shades of warm blue
#DimpleVerse #23words
...
Mourning becomes her
Or so people said
Not to her face
No never that
They had more sense
Than a wish to be dead
So walk on by
If you see her pass
Breathe a sigh of relief
Keep your gaze downcast
#noir #poetry
...
So blind you could not see
Deaf to the warnings you would not heed
Too late the fly caught within her web
The Beast within the Beauty
The lightning within the storm
Shell break you down
Leave you scattered adrift
Lost on vanitys lonely shore
306 #DarkLines
(🎨Gerbie Pabiliona)
...
Within my minds eye
Forever captured
Frozen in time
Sweet KISS OF INFINITY
Wrought in rainbow hues
A rapture in VISUAL POETRY
Ill remember the magical view
Whenever I see this PHOTOGRAPH
And smile as I think of you
#DimpleVerse
📷 by @aleksharlow
...
Buried within these poisoned dreams
Dual realities bleed through the looking glass
Rising from the depths to spill and seep
This descent into madness so fast and steep
#madcarnival
#darkcircus
#madVerse
...
Caught between burning realms
These smouldering pyres that surround
Nowhere to turn in a world set aflame
The darkest hearth writ large with my name
(🎨The Beginning of Ashes by Mikael Aldo)
#PoemTrail 302
...
Shedding the unclean trappings of a life gone sorely awry
Pure grace surrounded and lifted the downtrodden soul
A shining light of undiluted clarity bathing the shadowed world in a once forgotten beauty
#BlackDahliaProse 314
...
As night draws down her mourning shroud
And skies grow black with no moon allowed
Then shall he come with steps of dread
Trailing nightmare horrors in bloodstained red
Jack O Lantern was once his name
Hes coming for you
For on this one night
You are fair game
#WrittenRiver 1566
...
Falls the blood upon the tomb
Beneath these silent witnessing oaks
Hallowed ground yet not for thee
Who walks the earth yet be not of it
For this one night when veils are torn
Releasing the cursed and Hell spawned
#IntrigueVerse 149
...
Spawn of Hell wreaking terror
Two by two they onward come
Demonic angels of impure innocence
Sweet candy freaks of All Hallows Eve
Bolt the door & seal fast the windows
In spirit shall they steal within
In cast out damnation shall they depart
308 #DarkLines
(🎨Thomas Jerusalem)
...
Lost in the mist
Where echoes fade
Abandoned horrors lurk
In God forsaken shadows
That hunger for souls
The tired and dejected
Among the missing
Of this cruel modern life
& When the night breaks
Then so shall they
#MadVerse
#DarkCircus
#MadCarnival
...
With reptile smiles
They do seduce
This monster mash
Of the mummified
& The undead
Who yet stalk the night
In parasitic legion
Prowling 4 souls
Hungry for flesh
From below they seep
In poisonous flood
On this night of nights
When the will is weak
& perfect 4 frights
#BardBits 66
...
An Angel's kiss
White feather blessing
I feel your presence
Beside me
Within me
Never forgotten
Forever and always
Memento Mori
Amen
#verseangel
...
Come a little closer
He murmured low
Drawing me near
Temptation I know
Two become one
In nights secret shadow
Passions promenade
Fulfilling desires
As the hours slip past
& our need climbs higher
(Left 🎨: Richard Blunt)
#PoemTrail 304
...
She was ice and fire
A bolt of lightning
Straight to his heart
Searing his soul
No more would he wander
Adrift and alone
Always on the outside
Ever searching for a home
#DimpleVerse
...
Beneath forest canopies
Shadowed and quiet
The pixies cavort if you believe
Traipsing leaves in glorious legion
Guild the ground in glorious fusion
Where boots and bards linger and muse
Upon a universe in harmony with chaos diffused
🎨- JMB
#BardBits 69
...
In silent battalions they march in rows
These talking spirits that walk no more
Beneath live oaks with mourning moss veils
Mature aged sentinels ever standing guard
Over honourable souls laid down to rest
Now at peace on this Day of the Dead
#wineverses
...
She walks these rails
Thru the night
Her plight unknown
Til morning light
Then is gone
Fading 2 mist
2 rise again
No end in sight
#DarkLines
How sad, to relive that nightmare every night...
.@napkinwriter
Unto the end of time itself, she is doomed to retrace the steps and destiny fate has bestowed upon her
@MercurialNight
Yonder castle there
Where wizards dare
Contrive
Their potions rare
If I do dare
Do thy share
The age
Of elixir with thee...
What potion this
Miraculous
That flaunts the divinity of Gods
Mortal I be
Yet immortal I yearn
Yay to thine offer
Let us taste
@napkinwriter
@MercurialNight
Tonight I creep
The morrow we sip
Become wiser
Than kings and queens
The elixir true
Conjure you
Upon
The day of the dead
To rise beneath a newborn moon
Cloaked in shadow
My wish come true
@napkinwriter
@MercurialNight
Moon burnt
Crisp clouds encircling
Whispering
Shades of winter
Spring and summer
Fall too
Our knees buckle
And heads bow...
Bathed in cool moonlight
Bereft of Apollo's radiance
To prowl the night
Draped in shade
@napkinwriter
In shades of blue I barely knewYou've written some good poems there. Thank you very much for sharing.
His gaze #described my future true
In shades of red I did so dread
His lips formed words better left unsaid
Id run so far yet couldnt escape
The Devil inside that was my fate
#vss365
#noir
...
With a #nod to the dark art of noir, I spilled crimson ink upon a virgin page. Watching with satisfaction how it seeped into the tiny peaks & troughs of the paper in exactly the manner of the blood pooling beneath the still twitching corpse crumpled upon the floor...
#vss365
...
Breathing in rhythm
Feeling the flow
Renewing myself
Just as I go
Floating away
Light as air
Letting go of it all
No worries no cares
#SlamWords #47thEdition #encore R1
...
In draining old wounds of their poisonous malice
In finding new peace in a world full of madness
In refinding friends who he once thought were dead
The pain of it lessened and no words need be said
#SlamWords #47thEdition #encore R2
...
Betwixt the infinite & the finite
There shall I be
Betwixt the possible & the impossible
Youll be sure to find me
Expanding inner vision
Set your mind flying free
Trust always in your vision
Then you can truly believe
#SlamWords #47thEdition #encore R3
...
Those secrets we share on 🔥afternoons
Sunk deep in each other, unable to move
Those lies we tell others 2 keep our world safe
Locked away from condemning words & their cruel gaze
They wont understand nor ever forgive
The choices weve made - how we want 2 live
#SensualScribbles
...
What midsummer madness held you so enthralled?
What tales did he spin that swept you away from it all?
For all his promises, did you fall so sweetly under his spell?
So lost as to give those dreams away you once nurtured so well?
#SlamWords #47thEdition #encore R4
...
Lead me to where the sweet waters flow
Away from the madness, take my hand & well go
Leaving my woes far far in my wake
Feel my spirit lifting with each step I take
Lay me down among the willows & let me dream
Of a world of wonder, w/out any screams
#SlamWords #47thEdition R5
...
What tales they surely could weave
These bare hills we long ago did leave
That once did sound with so much life
Amongst winding valleys wild and lost
Shiver ghosts of the past w/out counting the cost
Now forlorn & abandoned, scarred by strife
#SlamWords #47thEdition #encore R6
...
In the lone eagles cry
Across the wild prairie
In a clear cobalt sky
A warrior runs wild & free
To the gallop of hooves
Where wild horses still roam
Shall his spirit return
To the land he called home
#SlamWords #47thEdition #encore R7
...
Always there
That voice inside
Whispering words
I cannot deny
The power within
Friend or foe
Ive long forgotten
No longer know
I cannot run
I cannot hide
Its also there
The demon inside
#SlamWords #47thEdition #encore R8
...
To touch the stars
Once more - again
To soar in the heavens
My beautiful friend
With you by my side
Holding me tight
Well map the universe
A beautiful sight
Soul to soul
Burning so bright
Always together
Unto that white light
#SlamWords #47thEdition #encore R9
...
What is this mysterious alchemy?
This connection shared one Summers eve
Strangers we were at the start of the night
Then lovers by the time of the morning light
Simply breathing did we become
Moulded together - two hearts become one
#SlamWords #47thEdition #encore R10
...
A raven cries high upon the wing
A soul flies north nevermore to sing
The #warcry echoes down through years
Theyre on the move giving to life your fears
So gird your loins and hone your blades
Valhalla beckons and they dont take slaves
#vss365
...
#storyteller tales
Imaginary journeys
Magic & wonder
#vss365
...
Two gazes
One room
Two hearts
Love bloomed
And the whole world #tilts
#poetryin13 383
...
Once upon a #dream
He came to me
And it seemed so real
I craved the wildness
Of his devouring kiss
Wrapped tight in his arms
It was such addictive bliss
In rhythm we danced
Swept to heaven above
Seduction & sensation
Making memories & love
#SensualScribbles
...
Shhh my love
No one can know
Secrets we keep
Seeds we sow
Theyll never understand
Theyll judge & demand
Things we cannot explain
It is what it is
No one is to blame
Ignore wagging tongues
The frowning looks
Life is for living
By hook or by crook
📸Marianna Phtg Ltd
#MadVerse
...
Reflections of us are all I see
When I close my eyes
Imagine you and me
Always together - never apart
A #mirror of two souls
A never-ending spiral
Right from the start
#vssmagic
...
Mysterious #passages
Lost pages in time
Bound tightly together
No reason nor rhyme
#Poetryin13
Promise me heaven
With all that you are
Bequeath me hell
When you journey too far
...
Time
That precious commodity
Slipping by
This home I once knew
Cherished
Now lost in the past
Yet gilded memories
Of us
Live on
#SenseWrds
...
Upon a snowflake
Wrapped in wonder
Sat a Christmas elf
#hangtenstories
...
Sullen clouds
With Winter snow
In swollen misery
Loom
While far below
In expectation
Children do gather
Eyes eagerly aglow
#fieryverse
...
So many locks
Without keys to be found
Lay strewn behind me
To cover the ground
Each a memory
Forever locked
But never mocked
#tabloprompts
...
A Winter queen
With frozen tears
She waits in anticipation
Of a Snow king
For whom snowflakes dance
To offer a diamond ring
#Poem_Pocket
...
What demonic hand
Dipped in blood
Designed this cruel facade?
Etched in pain
And agony deep
Brush stroke lacerations
Wounds seep
#DarkLines
...
With a beckoning smile
Tempting
Seductive
He drew me ever closer
I breathed him in
Succumbed
Surrendered
Drowning myself in sin
#VerseAngel
...
A MOODY MEETING OF MINDS
Concealing STACCATO words
As TAILORED bullets
Rend
And STILETTOs
In taught intimate glide
Nimbly TANGO
#DimpleVerse
...
Set sail upon waves of stardust
Blown by playful solar winds
To ride the crest of racing comets
Seeking glory beyond the stars
#Poem_Pocket
...
Firelight glow
Pine cone scents
Whispers
Smiles
Warm mulled wine
Between cupped hands
To sip
To savour
While limbs entwine
🎄
#SenseWrds
...
Torn from my lips
Fate was 2 cruel
The words I tried to say
My wasted breath
Was his undoing
A breaking point
& he walked away
#SableSwanV
...
#MadVerse
Dreams are born
In a cradle of light
Where nostalgic melancholy
Surrenders to quiet contemplation
And hope is resurrected within
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Around fires aglow
Gather our friends
All whom we know
As night descends
To welcome a Winter solstice
And the season moves on
#VerseAngel
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Clothed in Mother Nature's finest
Succulent enticement sublime
My hunger
My desire
Deepens
My resolve
So weak
Surrenders
#SenseWrds 207
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Storm tossed soul
Shipwrecked
Bereft
Spent upon life's shore
A wounded vessel
Without anchor
Never to sail again passion's ocean
#TastyPoem
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Her dreams UNSUPRESSED
With burning ambition
She aimed for the GLASS CEILING
EXPANDING her boundaries
& REACHed FOR THE STARS
#DimpleVerse
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As ivy 2 the branch
Our souls do so entwine
Each a part of the other
Until death do us part
& in the final reckoning
Bury us as 1
#DarkLines
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To be with you
This Christmas Eve
Is truly my heart's desire
Sharing sweet candy kisses
'Neath hanging mistletoe
Beside a fire
#Poem_Pocket
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Rosy hues
To color her world
Ever hopeful
She dances through life
Her heart
As a window
Open to all
Such an incurable romantic
Thank you xxYou're welcome.
DISPELLING dark thoughts
My EQUILIBRIUM regained
PERHAPS I'll forgive
Forget
ONE DAY
But not now
Not today
Oh just NEVER MIND
#DimpleVerse
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Though years may pass
Fading away
You shall forever remain
#hangtenstories
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Gather round
Let us remember
Dip deep into the well
Let us speak
Of good and bad
Times long past
Those tales we can all tell
#fieryverse
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Such innocent eyes
Rapt in their imagination
A carpet of blooms
They lift their faces
To follow the sun
Entranced
They sit
#HeartWrds
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Birthed from a storm
Running wild & free
He was said 2 have a wolf's spirit
That none could tame
Capture
Cage
4ever he'd simply B
#Ashverse
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Magenta hues
In saturation
Drench my flesh
In carnal bliss
My secret no more
Unlocked 4 all
To see
& wonder
Did YOU cause this?
#CarnalVerse
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It lit the flame
That sudden spark
In a flood of thought
I found my drive
Poetic words poured forth
A slave to the muse no more
#PoemTrail
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Cast adrift
Let loose to roam
He stalks the lonely night
Cloaked in shadow
Seeking his prey
His dark beauty seduces
Devours
All
#DarkLines
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Cinnamon kisses
Logs aflame
Mulled wine warmth
Sighing your name
Blanketing snow
Jack Frost calling
Sleepy eyes
Lashes falling
#Poem_Pocket
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Cinnamon kisses
Logs aflame
Mulled wine warmth
Sighing your name
Blanketing snow
Jack Frost calling
Sleepy eyes
Lashes falling
#Poem_Pocket
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Touch of moonlight madness
Taste of rain upon my lips
Skating on the ice
Pirouetting shapes
Cheeks rosy from a kiss of frost
#MadVerse
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A colourless sky
Bleached of vibrancy
Looms above my head
I look to spring
In anticipation
Of the warmth
And picnics ahead
#fieryverse
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In hot blood
Accusations flew
Back & forth
Verbal stilettos
Loosed by intimate assassins
To pierce the soul
& leave us bleeding
#VerseAngel
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A WARPED fantasy
My own mental MIRAGE
As day INVERTED to night
His gaze burned with PERSUASION
My lusty CHIMERA now my reality
#DimpleVerse
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Icicles hanging
Needles pointing
As four eager little elves
Sitting on a snowflake
Wait for Christmas
& Santa running late
#SenseWrds 203
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"Yes", I whispered
My fate sealed in that one word
#hangtenstories
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Stars shining bright
Scattered across the heavens
Such a sequinned canopy
Against the velveteen dark
Each one a promise
Of more
#fieryverse
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The crushing anguish
Desperation
That rises to taunt
Wound
The hope diminished
Dream let go
All upon a paper
Clear of ink
Of life
#BentHalos
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Words that once did wound
Now heal
Close up the tear you did rend
Make it as if new
If you can
I see you for what you are
Now
#writtenriver
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#Ashverse
Tearing out my heart
Letting you go
Was the hardest
Your smiling carnival lips
Seduced my one way trip
To the place I lost in love
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Haunting strains of a requiem
Thread the silent night
A danse macabre
The risen undead
Brought to skeletal life
#Rhythmic_Words
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Soft cries bitten off
Silenced by a masterful hand
In burning anticipation
Poised
She waits
Of what he next has planned
#DsubVerse
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Rain spattered
Blood spattered
All the same to me
Been here so long
I've become a ghost
Unseen
Unknown
My soul burned away
@Banquozghost
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Pure in thought
She gave herself
#sixwords
#DimpleVerse
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Unsullied and pure
In sparkling glacial clarity
Refreshing in simplicity
#tenwords
#DimpleVerse
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Bold bravery
Courageous & true
Steps forward
To raise in valour
This flame of freedom
In chivalric endeavour
With cowardice forbidden
#NMCRP
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Beneath the glitter
Gloss and smiles
Warm scent of pine
And candles aglow
Where simple honest love
Awaits underneath elegance
#writtenriver
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In hues of brilliance
Shining bright
Beats a stained glass heart
Raining light
Rings wrapped in velvet
Simple wishes vowed
Forever
#madVerse
Duet with Banquozghost
Ravens take flight
Heading West
Skies are a-boil
A demonic tempest
Innocents flee
Kneel & pray
Hell has arrived
Come to stay
@Banquozghost
@MercurialNight
No shelter, no last chance
to run
when devils dance!
Cloven feet stamp foul the earth.
Plead for death
and curse my birth!
A waste of breath
to kneel and pray
Hell has come!
There's hell to pay.
O screaming demons
Ride the wind
A tempest thou hast wrought on Earth
Where all is now barren
Cast down
Without worth
@Banquozghost
@MercurialNight
Begins the helter-skelter flight
from crazed apocalyptic fight
What sanctuary
what place is there to hide
when devils ride
Seal thy portals from this world
Close up thine ears to block allsound
Lay down amidst weeping willows
And lose yourself in me
#DsubVerse
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Without U I'm bereft
Unanchored
U took love away
Denied me my haven
While U rest
Underground
Biding your time
Until we meet again
#Ashverse
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With gleeful violence
We descend upon the feast
To devour in malevolent fury
The undefended sustenance
As they flee before us
#TastyPoem
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Ethereal mists
In half light drift
From their enshrouding drape
Herons take flight
Slicing the air
To seek the dawning light
#ShapePoetry
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Hold your ground
Stand fast, my friends
Before the oncoming storm
We R a bulwark of honour
Absorbing the impact with impunity
#DimpleVerse
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Welcome "the voice whispered"
What you desire
You shall be given
No payment but that of your soul
4 that you shall no longer need
#DarkLines
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Daisy chains for my hair
In sweet profusion grow
To garland my brow
Drape my waist
This wedding day
For his eyes only
My beau
#SenseWrds 169
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Bartered my soul 2 cheaply
Traded every tomorrow
With no one 2 pray for me
Catching time beyond my grasp
As my demons turn on me
#Ashverse
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Rest gently upon layers of down
Allow what troubles U 2 slip away
As stormy clouds fading to clarity
Free your mind and breathe
#SableSwanV
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Come walk with me ...
Leering faces
Reviled in crimson
Grin lasciviously on each side
Spindly fingers
Flesh eaten bone
Beckon me on
Woe betide
#MadCarnival
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"I understand"
Said the Mind
With supercilious venom
"I don't"
Said the Heart
With innocent confusion
"Tell me why I'm bleeding"
#SableSwanV
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Tiny footprints in the snow
Lay a trail
Which way to go
Snowflakes whirl
In balletic flight
Shimmering moon
A chill dark night
#SenseWrds
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Stars do shine and sparkle
Luminescent guides
To light the way
For journeying souls
Seeking a safe passage home
#ShapePoetry
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Scarlet letter upon my breast
Your secret desire
Turning my world to chaos
My headstone a rough tablet
Inscribed with my shame
#HeartWrds
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Riparian tranquility reigns
Harmonious nature in transcendence
The great expectations of man
Without substance deny existence
#DimpleVerse
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Beguiled by the madness
Riotous hallucinations
Wary gaze defies the shadows
Desperately twisting
Searching
But no exit found
#MadCarnival
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Hopes & dreams
Worn & tattered
Yet still do I believe
All that I bleed
I give to you
My heart & soul
Never bound to stray
#Ashverse 355
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Fire away
Set your aim true
No titanium ricochet
Shall pierce my bullet proof heart
No fearless thrust
Shall steal my life away
#DimpleVerse
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Sheltered flame
Brought to life
A hidden spark
A phoenix rising
2 brightly burn
A beacon aflare
Drawing the lost
The lonely
Home
#SableSwanV
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Ethereal wraiths
Swarming spectres
Drift in shifting mist
Silent sentinels
Patient guardians
Awaiting my decay
2 enfold my soul
#SenseWrds
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Offer me diamonds
Steal my heart
With an oak club
Shall I engrave our love
With a spade shall I dig
Plant a rose
Forever 2 bloom
#VerseAngel
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Vapours roll
Oily and black
A fatal mist
Consuming all light
As stars go out
One by one
Fatal fumes rise
To engulf the night
#DarkLines
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Candy striped lunacy
In tune with strident accordions
Ferociously played
Madness consumes
In bloody shades
Smearing the night
#MadCarnival
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Warming raiments
Amber
Bronze
About the scenery drape
Scent of bonfires
Smoulder
Drift
Soothing the path to hibernation
& escape
#SenseWrds
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It felt like a kiss
Soft
Sensual
When the fog rolls in
2 shroud the shore
& wreath fiery bonfires
The scent of magic in the air
#DimpleVerse
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The sighing of leaves in a restless wind, drew my slumbrous gaze in curious wonder B4 my mind surrendered to this Sylvan dream
#DarkLines
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Warming nectar of Fall
The scent of pumpkin spice
Memories of a childhood passed
Haunting my soul in the chilled night air
#NMCRP
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Heaven's tears
Upon us
Do fall
#DimpleVerse
#sixwords
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Madness swirls
Circling insanity
Spiralling in endless subjugation
A world gazes on
Greedy for more
Witness to my conflagration
#MadCarnival
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Kingdoms may fall
But I shall survive
Never controlled
Not gonna die
Sworn to a lover's creed
Stand & fight
For you
Shall I bleed
#Ashverse
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Seasons change
Tides turn
& the world
In motion
Continues 2 spin
While the moon
In admiration
& slow drift
Aimlessly journeys on
#SableSwanV
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Just one step
So simple
Yet so hard
A decision made
No looking back
No time for regret
Look to the future
& in yourself
Believe
#ShapePoetry
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Prowls the night
Hungry 4 more
Appetite undiminished
Angel or sinner
Caring not which
In the dark
2 a soul stealer
All the same
#DarkLines
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We stood
We stared
We couldn't look away
Our gazes locked
Emotion sizzled the air
You asked
I answered
& all without speaking
#SableSwanV
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'Tis the music of the waves
Lapping on the shore
An ocean song of voyages to be made
Lands just beyond the horizon
Waiting..
#Poem_Pocket
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Gentle pilgrims on life's path
Seeking escape from a rushing world
Along shaded paths
We rediscover ourselves
& learn 2 breathe
#DimpleVerse
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As night leeches light
From the day
I turn the page
Look away
Tomorrow beckons
Dreams to make
I was afraid
But that was yesterday
#AsymLife
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Reckless bodies in the press
Battle -
a suicidal hydra
severing
severing
till the dead flow
like a river
beneath a storm
of blood and steel
Hell raining down
Damnation like a plague
To spread
To flow
Seeping through every pore
To leech the hope
The dreams of man
@Banquozghost
@MercurialNight
Dreams dying
with the men
who dreamt them
shafted by the same steel
leaking their lifeblood
into the mud
of the battlefield
Heroes now fallen
As wheat before the scythe
Their lives
Once full
Now drenching the ground
@Banquozghost
@MercurialNight
No bright sun on steel
night falls hard on a crow feast
looters seek booty
desperate hands slip
like snakes
among the dead
@MercurialNight
Staring
I wait for a footstep
It will not come
For the slip of the latch
It will not come
All dead, said the messenger
With leaden heart she crumples
A soft cry upon her lips
As darkness enshrouds her
She hears his voice again
Lost on the wind
@Banquozghost
@MercurialNight
Reaching
ever reaching
in tears
in sleep and dreams
for the ghost of him
she can hold no more
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Racing
Never still
Her life bound 2 the tick of time
Then twilight comes
2 shade
2 slow
2 brush the stress away
Peace at last
#SenseWrds 164
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Throw of the dice
Roll of the wheel
Luck of the draw
Bet it all on a deal
Capricious Fate will decide
If I lose at all
#MSpoetry
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Senses alive to the wonder around
Sensations explode in sublime rhapsody
Infusions of such generous proportion
I can barely cope
#TastyPoem
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#tenwords
#DimpleVerse
pic by Angel Taylor
Where gentle waters murmur
There shall I rest my soul
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The way U lie
Your eyes conceal much
Yet your lips spill deceit
Your wrong felt so right
Now U watch me burn
Revenge born of spite
#Ashverse
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When the tempest within is spurred to life
Tranquility to storm tossed fury
To break upon an innocent shore
In rough edged ire
#SableSwanV
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When the tempest within is spurred to life
Tranquility to storm tossed fury
To break upon an innocent shore
In rough edged ire
#SableSwanV
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Paying exquisite attention to every silken slide of his fingers upon my flesh, I breathe in soft anticipation of sweet ecstasy
#DsubVerse
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A secret love
In blossom shall flourish
Upon the knell of death
To tenderly nourish
Emotions too powerful
To bloom in life
@ispitfire79
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As shadows walk
Across the walls
Flames burn bright
Thru the night
& yet no warmth
To quell the chill
He stalks me now
Still
@Banquozghost
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Soft portals to a weeping soul
In shimmering trepidation peep
As Summer fades to Winter white
I take my leave and away I creep
#DimpleVerse
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Was it only yesterday
That my life spun
Twisted in a spiral
When Fates laughed aloud
Teaching their lesson
& my life changed
#SableSwanV 22
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Shimmering golden shades
Bronzed thru Fall's gentle light
Kaleidoscopic ribbons of light
To chase the ice
From Winter's sight
#Poem_Pocket
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Ribbons in shimmering shades color my world in kaleidoscopic hues 2 raise the spirit & bring a smile to those with the power to C
#MadVerse
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These myriad lines
Reflected back
Each tells tale
A memory forgotten
Yet each I trace
They remind me
Of a life lived in full
#SenseWrds 167
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One day I shall, one day
Spewed forth from acrid smoky depths
Shall a new terror arise
Cloaked in suffocating sulphurous fumes
Demonic apparitions emerge
#DarkLines
Yess! These are so great! Have you published them yet?
He's magical to write with 😉
A Warrior Lies Sleeping
Lives have come and gone
In but a blink of an eye
Yet here you rest
Beneath these hills
While the land above does cry
Unaware of centuries passing
Awaiting once more the call
Defender of the faith
A saviour to all
A land slowly dying
Crying out your name
A people soon to perish
Remembering once your flame
Rise up, our saviour!
For now is the time
O warrior of the realm
Your might is once more needed
Your strength to guide our helm
Both of your most recent posts are amazing! But I have to say that I loved A Warrior Lies Sleeping :)
Great writing, lady WintersTale
Wild imaginings
Dark, dangerous
Wilful desires unloosed
My mind to be the cauldron
My flesh to be the ingot
Sculpting my world
xxxx
Drumming beat along the road
Hot chrome beneath my thighs
Spinning wheels shall never cease
No matter which route I decide
xxx
We've come so far
Along this road
Our destination still unknown
Yet together we'll chart a course
Our spinning wheels racing on
Xxx
Time shall never be ours to own
No man can slow its march
We can but ensure we spend it wisely
In love, honour and honesty
Xxxx
Upon this field beneath the heavens
I lay and gaze upon the stars
My bed this night to be the earth from which I sprung
xxxxx
And such a sweet and gentle head
To bear the heavy weight of such
He really was too good for this world
Overburdened much
Xxxx
Musings today:
There stands a pool
Within a glade
Where still waters
Lie clear and chill
Take just one
Sip of the divine
And eternity is yours
xxx
Slow creeping tendrils of icy inquisition
Drag their frosty way along my rippling spine
Which flinches in chilly fruitless evasion
Xxxxx
With a wicked smile
That's all it took
To draw me under your spell
Mentor me in the ways of
Everything I ever thought impossible
xxxxx
Slide of leather
Rasp of zip
With a ride this sweet
Let's take a trip
Chart my desire
On my lost highway
Moonlight whimsy - a duet with Neil
And there I rest
Gazing upon the moon
So far away
Out of reach
Yet with just one thought
So shall I perch upon her beam
Lifted up to Selene's domain
past compass of the mortal sea
to freedom of the human mind
not so entwined with vain humanity
My earthbound form
Enchained to this wandering sphere
Shall not my soul's flight prevent
As she soars free to roam the heavens
Drift, sailor,
on the tides of Jove
as he plays the destiny of planets
for a game of draughts.
Where next?
Fate my helmsman
The Fates do mock our poor endeavours
In futile purpose do I drift on cosmic tides
A mere toy beneath their cruel intent
So vain gods
doff the masks
simulacra of concern
to reveal contemptuous
curling lips
wild eyes
the reign of cruel children
Absolve my frail humanity
I am their humble servant
My vanity blinded me
Deafened my ears
My foolish wish
No more than a dream
Be lethal
Be swift
Be the blade which cleaves the path
This day shall be ours
This crown we shall take
And valiant hearts to win
Zzzzzzz
Her wings unfurled to taste the currents
Stretching towards the heavens
But not to be - broken wings now shackled to Earth
Zzzzzzz
Our gazes met
Unspoken words flowed
Your hand stretched forth
My breath held in anticipation
With the slightest touch
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