A kiss

Lips,
Magnets,
Locked in to,
A melting alloy;
Nuances of pink;
Dewy and swollen
Soggy pouts;
In the brink,
Of thawing in to,
The perfection of bliss.

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Seed

The seed of the soil
Sown by the palms of man
To an opportune terrain
For the endowment of dowry
To the daughters of the soil
To hail the seed of man
Perpetuation of seeds of legacy
Genesis of offspring
Heirloom to human flux
As parts a divine truth - seed the vital force
Of the timelessness of being

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Unspoken Words

Words,
Unspoken,
Tormenting an existence;
As you wallop your breasts;
For what lies deep beneath.
For your caged abyss, your locked vault,
Your hive sans a trickle of nectar;
Is waiting for your lips,
To serve a goddess on a platter;
To metamorphose,
The chambers of your nucleus,
In to an eternal honeycomb;
Dewy and drooling,
With the nectar of love.

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Once Bitten Twice Shy

The legacy of hurt
Transcends the bleeding heart
To the apprehension of step
In the forlorn shadows of pain
As lips gone bitter
By the taste of rejection
Stutters in footpaths of destiny
A wounded soldier bearing a flickering torch
In the murky battlefields of love
As the procreation of love stolen
Metamorphoses the leaping heart
To a restless craven
Once bitten, twice shy

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Fame

Sculptures of the sky, constellations of light
Paving highways to journeys of the heart
As road maps are absented, to transcend mortality
Hitch-hikers saddled, to the dorsal fins of light
Chasing cosmological dreams, astral fusions
To sketch one's sculpture on celestial floor tiles
To shine forth an endowment of reflection
To be engraved in the manuscripts of space and time
To metamorphose from ashes to heavenly star-dust
To embrace the nirvana of a cosmic legend

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Elan Vital

‘Elan vital' of lyrical acutance
Is carved open from veiled mausoleums
Shrouded embodiments of perpetual beauty
Like a dagger etching ink out of an uncut sapphire
To script life from the milieu of wood pulp
To exonerate pearls of poetry
From the oyster of a poet's heart
As the enchanting nib entwines
Tapestries of romance and epic saga
To metamorphose banality to a rainbow of chimera
To engrave the revelations of the third eye
In the timelessness of impression
In the perpetuity of scripted words

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A Plank of Wood

A plank of wood,
Afloat on the Pacific;
A solitary body,
Buoyant in the greatest of blues;
Basking in the scorching sun;
Tumultuous yet inexplicably tranquil;
Amidst the raging currents;
Swayed by the ocean streams;
To an isle which lies;
Far beyond the immediate horizon.
A-kin, buoyant dreams,
Are carried by currents of destiny;
To lavish upon you;
A sunken treasure, buried,
Deep inside the sands of your destined isle;
In your journey, from calamitous depths,
To the arms of serendipity.

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Trenches of Melancholy

Your loss,
Has left me,
In infinite sadness;
As my grains of sand are displaced, grain by grain;
By your horizon-bound tide;
As the sand castles,
That were built deep within,
The walls of my temple,
Are now fragile to the torrents of your brine;
As I gather on abyssal depths;
Scattered on the ocean floor;
Far from your graceful self waltzing below the heavens;
A fateful journey of divergent destinies;
As sand castles part pristine white sands;
To embrace trenches of melancholy.
Oh the fragility of love!

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Ashes

Ashes
A timeless symbol
For the treaty of life
Signed by celestial nibs
The fabric of cosmos, seed of the earth
Bridged together by the conduit of existence
As vieillesse mutes the bonfires of the hearth
To expire to an exodus of the caged wind gods
Confinement of being within the walls of time
Yet man, a nomad of time, a pilgrim of fate
In the vastness of an earthly opulence, conquistadors of the heart
Gravitating to earthly chutes
As the impermanence of man is carried forth by the flux of fatum
Yet, caged by the trappings of mortality
As ashes befall to the realm of man
A requiem for the transience of humanity

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Flame

Like a flame that seeks redemption,
From Aeolus's thrusts,
Via a pair of palms that unite,
To form a monumental wall;
I seek my own pair of palms;
To unite for a simple prayer;
For a miraculous intervention;
Two eyes that stare at mine's;
With a symbiotic dependency.
Oh Gabriel where are thou?
I am waiting, even in my twilight;
As the candle flames on;
In my flimsy vulnerability;
Protected by my beloved's touch;
And St Elmo's fire;
As their palms holds me away;
From the vengeful thrusts of the wind gods;
Walking in the cracked footpaths of destiny;
With a candle in hand;
Waiting for destiny.....

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