nature
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Summer Heat
The smell of sweatGrows with the summer heatReplacing the fragranceOf springWith smoldering embersAnd feverish plumesCoiling prickly threadsWoven into the phantom calicoStretching its weightBetween skin & freshly pressed garmentsBecoming damp and heavyYet still never quite burning awayThough the furnace blazes–Water bottles appearAgain and againDrained by chapped lipsYet this thirstHas made divots and trenchesNot so easily filledUnless Continue reading
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Goodbye Sakura
The cherry blossoms Have come and gone; Houdini-quick, In their ephemeral pantomime Of life’s primordial beauty And bittersweet endings Continue reading
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The Curious You
You seemed a creation of waves and sand; The way your skin glittered in opalescent winks Under the aureate sun You spoke the language of the sea’s deep groanings That only seagulls could pacify Seashells hugged your neck Like the finest pearls And your moss-green eyes held a mysterious depth that rivalled the ocean’s; Pools I could drown in without fear of an unknown Leviathan crushing my body in its Continue reading
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A Glimpse of Cherry Blossoms
The cherry blossoms went as quickly as they came. An ephemeral wink of beauty; as if they had bloomed and taken a singular breath in the delicate flutter of a child’s lashes. The streets were awash in their petals, like neglected wishes that had spilled through the split seams of the air’s thin pockets. She Continue reading
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Seascape Fantasy
The sea entices me Champagne bubbles Frothing on the shore As it pulls my body Inebriation sure Into its intoxicated dance Hiccups punctuating Every dip and slide Every splash and ripple Of the tide Drowning my own mad laughter As the sun soaks through my lungs Saltwater burning on my tongue And my mind Caught Continue reading
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Flavors of the Day
A frog croaksAn evening hymnIts dissonant rhymeScratching at the windWhile the clouds followThe motley footprints of the sunAnd treacles of morning delightStill hang in the air—Wisps of cotton candyTeasing our mouths openLike carefree childrenTo taste the last remnantsOf the day:A day we will never have again. Continue reading
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Whispers of Serenity
In the quiet of eventide, while he read and she wrote, the flutter of pages would fill their bedroom. Like the soft vibrations in a bird’s wings, catching the wind’s breath in its feathers. The scratches of her pen seemed to murmur in answer of her pensive mumblings. Sounds that often followed him to the Continue reading
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When Nature Grieves
Festering wounds Wrought within These broken words Emotions raw and rotted Filled with squirming clusters Of hungry maggots Devouring the remains Of a silenced voice While the winds billow Drenched in the sillage Of decay And the clouds hang low Heaving with grief For the dying sounds of hope Shattered on the rocks Violently thrashed Continue reading
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An Evening Epiphany
On nights like this— Supine beneath The emerald trails Of an angel’s dance Swirls of aurora flow In tandem With the delicate flutter Of a faint song Echoed In the heart of a music box— I realize This is not where I belong On this earth Filled with misery; Its unrelenting yearning Unseen burdens Bruising Continue reading
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Hiding Place
Choked on flushes of redFlooding beyond asphalt lipsTo its fertile coreThe earth groansWith tears of the sunEmbittered on the shallowsOf innocence lostAnd the moonCannot spread her thick veilQuickly enoughTo hide the open gazeOf hapless starsAs death devoursThe vulnerableThe weakThe unsuspectingLike a beast –Jaws drenched in crimsonMercilessly tearingThrough veins and tendonsOf its dying prey –And in Continue reading
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