imperfect roses
scrutiny and muffled sighs
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Tag: poem
Dear Leader
He speaks to the crowd.
The voice, a sonorous velvet music
lifting the heathens.
Several tongues trace longing lips,
hanging on every word.
He passes judgement.
The crowd become a frenzied mob.
Possessed by his rapture,
they inflict such malicious violence.
Caprice
exposed in the snow
an unguarded fantasy
Snow falling on skin
whimsical pagan caprice
unbelieving, unknowing
The Bellwether
forgotten in hues
the bellwether of no one
talking to the sea
A Retreat
A stranger’s bed
paid for and made for one
without regrets
Jasmine steam
wafting on a light journey
only thoughts
A water barrel
outside comes to inside
the barrel bath
Sky glimpses
the sunsets into twilight
bobbing safe
Wet footprints
reinvigorated for today
in the present
The Olive Tree
The olive tree cries
Blood-stained roots long for water
alone in her death
Once the dwelling place of God
now turning to dust and death
The Human Tangerine
A tangerine in a suit.
Waddling towards the finish line with a desire for greatness.
A lover of the dictators.
Praising tyranny, hurting the nation’s people, and killing culture.
A nod to faux imperialism.
Redecorating the great home with tacky gold-plated idiocy.
A desire for other lands.
Ready to build on the blood and the bones of the many dead.
Lost in a Fantasy Novel
shrouded in the dark
beyond this life I venture
ascending stone steps
a yearning for this stone place
the familiarity
the brooding cloud sky
an awakening within
the familiar walls
no longer myself walking
words of a spell I don’t know
The Cursed Child
communion with trees
called the cursed, malignant girl
crying to the sky
church bells carry her body
killed by a feverish priest
Imaginary Wish
longing for fairies,
magical creatures, and a
rare nature magic
caught within the mundane world
an imaginary wish
C & K 