You will stand one day, surrounded by loved ones Perhaps one too many, with perhaps too many memories and when you look out onto the sea of colors You’ve dreamt about since you were young There will be once exception – a bright red tux owned by the piano man – hired to play his [...]
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One Day You Will Stand
Posted in Epithalamium, Poetry, tagged Epithalamium, Love, memories, Poetry, red tux, wedding, Woman on March 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The Curse You Want
Posted in Epithalamium, Poetry, tagged Epithalamium, Poetry on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
She knows you want it, and she’ll make you want it more because she can, because she’s the narcotic who brings your jaw to the floor. She’s in your hand, but you’d better ask her Or she won’t open her eyes to you. She’s in demand, so call her your master. She’s got a power [...]
The Winter Wedding
Posted in Didactic, Epithalamium, Poetry, tagged Didactic, Epithalamium, Poetry on November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The earth was dressed in snow To honor the pure unity Of the blessed virgin. The tolling bell called the fall to slow So the air could arrest the lunacy of the solemn surgeons; Images forged in defiance of the cold and tested by madness with no immunity or conversion. A tear falls, becoming a [...]
The Morning of Execution
Posted in Aubade, Epithalamium, Eulogy, Poetry, Villanelle, tagged Aubade, death, Epithalamium, Eulogy, life, Love, meaning, philosophy, Poetry, sacrifice, socrates, Villanelle on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The incarned beauty rests reclined, her hemlock colored eyes Preparing for her test. Despite his recent arrest the horror of the loved and wise The incarned beauty rests. Alcestis’ blood pumping in her chest Her hands, resting on his thighs, Are preparing for her test. Unaware of the gathering guests and the unfurling of the elydoric skies The [...]
Wheel People
Posted in Epithalamium, Poetry, tagged Epithalamium, Love, Poetry on October 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Do you hear the sound of the inevetable failure to describe a meaning? The cry of a tear going down A mother’s face, a salty cure An ocean for the weaning. Do you see the town, In their eyes, unexplained allure, as if they had been dreaming? Layered leaves, a wedding gown The reign of pure Radiant [...]
Hand-in-Hand
Posted in Epithalamium, Poetry, tagged Creation, Poetry on October 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Boy and Girl walk hand-in-hand The ash of apocolypse is snow falling from the ground into the air. Pressed between their fingers, time is slow A clutched black hole, a defiant stand For the angels and their heirs. “Breathe in the dead and dying and hold them to your lung” His voice is cloudy in [...]
