Unbuttoned light gently shimmers across
Provocatively perched to reveal parts
Fixed upon dawns grown from fearless hearts
Touring travails exhaled by clenched censure.
Writing as trialed torments of hostage,
Tragedy kept close to dissuade others
By quickly laming heedless adventure.
Without pauses or questions of knowledge,
Kettled enchantments spout promise through covers
Pressed open and mixed for tomorrows’ cause.
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In hope sputtered moribund controversy,
Abandoned homes stood lifeless
To starve pay from forgotten neighbors
And empty minds with vanished literacy
Greedily seized to mock survival.
Bunched limbs shouted over long tracked arrival
Unprepared & unrecruited but settled in purpose
With sweat & will for freedoms labors
Stretched too far along to contest vacancy
Posted as allure to settle gentry.
Days passed as centuries beneath forgotten stones
Where pill bugs burrowed fertility into clay
As epixylic flies, springtails , & woodlice
Pursued unabated fungivorous delight
From mineral streaming watermarks traced
By decay destined shoots & sprigs awaiting feeted midguts
Yet to ensnare centipede eyes or spider chelicerae.
Hushed chittering belied the quiet harmony
In which colonies collect & fulfill an unpromised tomorrow.
There is music in your eyes,
When saccades dart away & nigh
To focus rhythmic minds with time
Then play dreams with lullabies.
Watching blinks is listening to winks
With drawn out wonders singing comply
Bleating hearts to patterned eros
I am counted amongst the mirroring chorus.
Well lit by resilience,
But battered, chipped, & muddy.
Your silence tones kindled brilliance
In tuned glances to renew & ruddy.
Will you pair their wiles with my company?
Presence doesn’t blind, but personas drown me.
Your memories stitched dreams played only once
By threadbare consumed survival questions.
Quiet approaches write mirror context
With entrained recall of youth built promise
Seen as fancy but clear as remedy
For daylight fashioned stood even eyes
Assembling calm sharpened agency.
Time wantonly castigates perfection
In saddeningly cold reflection;
Change is incomprehensive to illusion.
Growth outpourings devil diminution
Stood frank & awful across tabled eyes
Wet from agency repressed by surprise.
Life binds fancies of everyday madness
As if bored by knowing what escape is.
When stung, defensive minds enact cruelty
while persuaded hope envisions duty.
As if trained telementationally.
Impeccable and broken similes
Mismatch performed duties like destinies;
Molting ached disasters from hidden prime
Mottles rare reflections measured by time.
For identities promised in mirror
Happiness enjoins its brightness nearer
Than floor struck pitfalls ended commonly.
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Plaintive horns thinned gold promised by midday
As Jealousy’s salacious deception.
Seated high in shielded misdirection
An honor penned smile drove quickly away.
Recognition rarely decides contexts
Prefixed by unmitigated sadness
Drawn to kiln, but unwound for love’s purpose.
Witnessed chasms need unbridged moments
Because unknowns are not restorative
When begun alone & stung by misreading
Clairvoyance as reasoning predictive
Like renewed hues ready-made for judging.
Where bundled ambition tugs sentiments,
Cornering quiets objectivity.
Its cruel urgency sorts dyad remnants
To envision cages carved from allure
As if preening hangs curiosity
From pedestals encircling demur.
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Steadfast tongues spend voids on memories
In conscious rhythms linking histories
With thoughts willed in place by impermanence.
Time lengthens and shortens their convenience
As forgotten resistance to hazards.
The journey to meaning rolls out in yards
To exhaust & retire bygone tumults
Separating tears from smiling results.