Water and Fire - Triolet
Water and fire oppose each other;
Sing the transmutation song
Air flows like water; it's another
Water and fire oppose each other,
And Earth's our gentle-giant mother,
Matter sings it's song life-long
Water and fire oppose each other;
Sing the transmutation song.
poem by Patti Masterman
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Time Cloisters
Time cloisters under the rafters,
Time splatters boisterous stars,
Time signifies all and nothing-
Time which fattens itself on wars.
Time has fingers; push-me pull-me,
Time has plans like night time dreams-
But time's gargantuan quagmire's shifting,
Swallowing your lucid schemes.
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Vast leaped the candle's flame
Vast leaped the candle's flame,
Kissing grotesque shadows.
Blinking eye of the holocaust
Enshrouded by shards of night.
Drunken fevers illuminate all secrets.
There is one hour between darkness and dawn,
When the beauty of desperate things eclipses time
And destroys the expectations of reason.
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The Other Side Of Love
On the other side of love lies hate,
More love, more hate, the equation is;
Yet some will simply embrace fate-
And all the right of wrongs, in this.
On the other side of death there is
Something that neither loves nor hates;
Something near enough to bliss-
The end: our loveless, hateless fate.
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Drink Poetry, Oh Ye of Small Faith
Drink poetry, oh ye of small faith:
Drink poetry from a bottle
Drink poetry from a book
Drink poetry from a fountain
Take another look.
Drink for sanctuary
Drink for inspiration
Drink for endurance
But never hesitation.
A toast to poetry
And a toast to time
A toast to us:
Live forever in rhyme.
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Some think the night
Some think the night's a transparent stranger,
Some think the night's an opaque friend;
And though some nights are fraught with danger,
Day to night, it's shadows lend.
Night gives day cold stars invisible,
Night gives day a moon half lit;
If night and day could trade their faces,
Each the others grey, befit.
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Butterfly fly free
Butterfly in a cage,
Bruising your wings on the bars:
Butterfly, just stand back
Until you can see how far
How thin the distance,
Between you and there;
The freedom you seek,
Past the barred air
Then fold your wings together
As though never to fly
And squeeze yourself between the rails
And waft away, on a sigh.
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Sleep With The Lights On
Sleep with the lights on-
And though curtains may flutter,
The sun won’t peek through.
Sleep with the lights on
Though candles might stutter,
The outside stays blue.
Sleep with the lights on;
While the traffic still sputters,
There's nothing to do.
Sleep with the lights on
So when that thing is hunting-
You’ll know it’s found you.
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Childhood's Christmas
Christmas opened childhood
Like heroes opened games,
And gifts were just the standard
For those with your same name.
Christmas ringed our childhood
Like hoodlums ring a fight,
And no one could believe it-
That Santa was a lie.
Christmas ended childhood,
That day we knew the truth:
We damned our own eye’s knowledge
Of wisdom's sorry proofs.
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Under Hades
A dark soul comes, will you give him your all,
Sidestep the rainbow, to tour his world?
Six seeds you've eaten, and you shall stay
As six seeds sprout, into numberless days..
A dark soul comes, will you give him your all
And bear his loving, held under thrall?
Six months you'll bear him, but there's no beseech
Under the rainbow, and out of reach..
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