Veil of Calm
Every second of waiting pricks,
Like a shaman on his bed of nails,
My veil of calm is just but a trick.
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Every second of waiting pricks,
Like a shaman on his bed of nails,
My veil of calm is just but a trick.
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Castaway on this spinning orb,
This ceaseless loop of indifference:
Cast in this aimless pageant of creation,
Fade the infant’s existence!
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Her amber eyes
They speak of honey
She pours them over me
Like the richest salve
Trickle by sweet trickle
In her gaze I get embalmed
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Teary eyed night
Sprightly pixies of light
Flit in & out of form
Elvis hails a cab
As into a storm of quanta you dissolve.
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Remember the moon powdery glow her brace of pulsing stars a sublime bel canto wooing our soft embrace into a slow #tango.
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Love that exalts the heart, what is like unto
it?
Thus from the rooftops I shout: I love you,
I love you, I love you.
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Taunted
Promise
Anger
Churning
Taut,
Bruce Banner
On
His
Kawasaki,
Temple
Haunt
For
The
Memory
Of
Nagasaki.
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Of the beauty in a lovers eyes countless
bards have sung,
But the flood of rapture when I glance in
her’s, is mine, all mine.
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Garish terror
Losing
My error
Seared
To
My
Rakish
Bones
Beauteous
Burden
Redeeming
Turn
Spurn
To
Tremor.
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The veil of immortality is rent!
What then will provide
The
Chase
Away
From
Stalking mortality’s Absence?
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