what's the moon do?

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WERE it the moon, soft red and

streaked with astral fumes when

your hot, haunting body formed

seemingly from the dread electric

molecular stratum of soul-melt?

together forever, you croon, and yet

my nectar stores are insufficient

for a bug-eyed whore like yourself

a parched star of frenzied flames


but hey


Author's Notes/Comments: 

Nary a note was worth it, like now at how esctatic I am, that Starward broke his silent oath

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redbrick's picture

Ah! Now there's a form and

Ah! Now there's a form and gait that brings shivers down the spine.


here is poetry that doesn't always conform

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Your command of language, and

Your command of language, and of the skill to artistically deploy it in this poem, is well displayed here.  You have compressed an amazing power in a few short lines.  If I were teaching a class on Poetry, this poem would be a textbook example of the height that poetic language can reach!


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