Fog-Horns, Even Bow-Bells

Nautilus on a cargo vessel, to avail,
devoid of an older route, and drift
his beats of abreacted pulse, to trail,
his home-land on cloudy forms, to lift.

Long locked in dreams, assemblage,
soul sails forward, spilled life's wine,
in Nordic Northern seas, God Brage,
unworldly lyrics to compose, in brine.

I reckon he befits an Angel, alone,
he plays a harmonica in broken notes,
a song for loners or friends, gone,
mistral petals him along, as boat floats.

I reckon he remembers her, a Naiad,
the sun crowns his head, far setting,
a dalliance, a harbor song, her bard,
depicting of his solitude's odd wedding.

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Dancing on tables

She stayed home, all alone,
with her mind dull like stone,
while her amore did not last,
for her beau had a dull past.

She discovered a guy loose,
down town, buzzed by booze;
she favored him with a prize,
to hers and his own surprise!

But it was not her first time;
dancing on tables for a dime;
bunny equilibrium she learned,
on gyre felt her ears burned.

Imbibed conned loving chats,
an odd life, next to bar slats;
it was a pink, fluffy dimension,
so I presume but not mention.

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Seas closed above

We left Thule's icy moorings, three days ago,
13 hundred miles SW of Greenland, regards
from cumuli down on side-scuttles the snow,
memory of your figure still, amid dockyards..

Daffodil blossoms, bloom today, in my yard,
my goals will meet my end in voids dimension,
a ghostly sonar blinks, our entreats en guard,
of no warm recounting, January of ascension.

January, day twenty one, a latent still embrace,
A flash of Centauri, bad weather, fromward aft
our beckoning to you, fog's horizontal trace,
Maenads of us inherited, envious of this path.

Recall our summer of eighteen, a twinge within,
my soul's obtusion golden cross, I tightly clench,
our dreams on nimbus are, you, my Naiad kin,
dum dum, diesels oddly hum, and decks drench.

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Knight of Oktober

Like a feral beast, claws at her cage,
sudden lightning illuminates her face,
half serene sadness replaces her rage;
facing up raindrops for a kiss to trace.

Thunder and flash, changeless scheme,
invariable dragging, cold down to bleak,
resolute severance, navigate in dream,
as will of escaping submits to mystique.

Occupied! Beholden to ancient whispers,
joy seems a waste, time near finished,
a cruel hope, and darkness of dreamers,
a billow of rain, her prowess diminished.

Ghosts invade her senses, a dark foray,
dreams to escape fade where whispers,
persuade her to alter, in dark outpray,
banish the spirits, soul's eulogy deeper.

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Night-time, ten-to-four A.M.

I will be on the road, a bad road tagged
Called 'Your Insights Terrestrial Roadway'
at a speed of inoculated fate dragged
into my altered oddities of soul betrayal.

above signs speed limits, effort of strive
at what distance will tangent lines drive?
I could only afford of a celestial ticket
A cyclic chord music, sacrificial trinket.

Up a strenuous, snake-like slippery mountain path
hollowed out cavern mines, engines powered wrath
My gloved hands tightly clenched upon leather steer
fast shift of gears, a tango with death commandeer.

Of heights and depths, impertinent forsaken place
of eerie outcasts, only obscene destinies will grace
all efforts. Upon this path, an intruder I shall be
outsmarted by nature's rejection of an even destiny.

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Marianne Islands

Position attained, a transient absurd message,
our cargo vessel on his supercilious drainage
of our souls, decided to betray our, of thirty, crew,
so started sinking, stubbornly, in a black-blue hue.

It was his will, I think; I am a nautilus enlisted man,
we routed on Pacific, from Magellan's straights
following a hyperbolic route, reaching Marianne
islands, South of Japan, where deepest depths are,

of close 12000 meters, the sonar links, vertical.
In how long a damaged steadfast that shudders,
reaches the bottom of an outsmarted end logical,
of our new invited souls, due to an inert rudder?

Our cause is somewhere lost, a propagation
of a despaired instant, grievance's emission,
so, our prayers are directed towards a cold
of no remorse depth of darkened souls, mold.

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Wanted man

Form in the drizzle drops, wet, earthy raceway,
monotonous of lights beams, wipers all night,
challenging me, a gray form, a marginal sway,
Race in this forest route, danger rules on sight.

Distant of cloudy forms, enlisted race odd,
a rainy cause, this relentlessness not to deny,
of odds I'm pursuing you, on this earthen road,
racer offspring, I see my life's odds to drive by.

My kind of gray, this asphalts' water border,
margin transforms, I control gearbox shifts,
a mercenary! - Limits of schedule times warder,
an undefined hunting of odds, my revs are swift.

Of even more away you go, a form undefined,
along my motors roaring, relentless, even rhythm,
special routes counting up, motive power's untied,
in heart I encroached of this, unsafe rules hymn.

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Tis Ekthromis (Greek poem)

ΤΗΣ ΕΚΔΡΟΜΗΣ

Αν κάπου γράφονται οι φιγούρες του χορού
φύλλων του ανέμου σε βουνού πλαγιές
κι απέραντα όνειρα πετάνε τ' ουρανού
και κυβερνούν απόλυτα παράλληλες ζωές.

Αν ταξιδεύεις και θυμάσαι τις τροχιές
στου ουρανού ιδανικές εικόνες χαραυγής
και όλα τα κλειδιά του αυγερινού ιαχές
Αγγέλων κι αναμνήσεων της εκδρομής.

Αν περασμένες σου χαρές χτυπούν την πόρτα
του λογισμού και τ' όνειρου και ζουν μαζί
με ανθισμένες μυγδαλιές κάθε χειμώνα
στα ακροδάχτυλα ψυχής ζητούν ζωή.

Του περασμένου σου χορού γράφεις κι αλλού
χορός των φύλλων σε ζητά, σε χαιρετά
Ν' ανέβεις, νάν' απέραντα τα χρώματα του νου

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Persephone

Persephone

Idea aborning in steps of deception,
becomes an aeromancy in free ether,
her airy amble chastens perception,
my image flies amid stratus to dither;

My life flies above landscapes empty;
Sorts out and recreates our embrace;
our Sun died, burden westward hefty;
and she, like twilight joined me, in lace;

Zephyr is blowing, subdued and unfit;
so, I welcome our solitude's amount;
a lone-spirited sentence of life, to emit,
our Idea lightless, of marginal bound;

Zephyr is blowing through our soul;
deception of a smile, glowering nifty;
her playful ample advances to extoll;

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The mast hangs fore

The mast hangs fore, so we bear with the land,
searching a birth; I check at the the binnacle,
and boards her up; Ease the helm, bear up-cond,
Pervasive Euclidean theorems, and the pentacle.

Voices echo from the land, in acerbic acrimony,
Angels' hymns soothing sound to slowly sharpen
biting vibes in the gusts consented disharmony,
respectfully strike the Flag, Hail to mishappen.

Accented voices, still so pleasant, effectual;
Comely draw in foggy forms, eerie on distance,
invulnerable were we, to bewitched end unequal;
threatening darkness favored fog's outdistance;

Airy she fares, inside the gust, devilish wind,
to eliminate my vacancy, so I fear, to be alive,
maybe she will vanish, aphotic dame in dark lint,
in roads adept, without her dusky aura connive!

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