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Musings on Life, Love, and Linguine-Poetry & Writing
Category: Poetry
A Timeless Patina
“Death twitches my ear; ‘Live,’ he says… ‘I’m coming.” ― Virgil Plucking taut strings with a horsehair bowthe air fills with a deep woody melody heardwith nimble fingers upon a slender throat each ethereal song more beautiful as wood ages painted in a timeless patina of bronze… Continue Reading “A Timeless Patina”
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Raven and Moon
“Yours is the light by which my spirit’s born: – you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.” ― E.E. Cummings Black raven whispered to waning moon I miss your face when you’re goneI spend darkest nights longing for you to paint blue cobalt nightwith… Continue Reading “Raven and Moon”
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Across the Sky
Deep in hazy eclipsed gloom As dark sun hides full blood moonEarth goes silent as if in prayerWith nary a bird singing there And in the wee dawning hoursTrees are still, and bowing flowersHang their heads waiting for lightTo dance again across the sky
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Panacea, II
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream. –Ernest Dowson She wallows in sombre melancholyin shallow warmth of quivering candlelightsipping sumptuous fruit of tangled vines, wine a… Continue Reading “Panacea, II”
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This Gift
Dreary grey skies and vague random rain Tap, tap tapping at my window pane My writing room filled with whispered sighsOf rose hues against a coal smoke sky Such days are rare during this seasonWhere bright flowers fade, feeling beatenAnd the scorching unrelenting sunSetting the west… Continue Reading “This Gift”
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Ode to Yarrow
I will pluck the yarrow fair That more brave shall be my hand That more warm shall be my lips That more swift shall be my foot May I an island be at sea May I a rock be on land That I can… Continue Reading “Ode to Yarrow”
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White Hot Blue
“Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets My brothers call me Sam, I’m the only girl in a swollen sea of musk scented testosterone Raised in a house full of grimy blacksmithsStriking… Continue Reading “White Hot Blue”
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