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Category Archives: Poetry
Disco
Plum fresco at dusk. Shaghaired totems chill and wait. There will be dancing.
Gash
Nostalgia, backlit by a warm, gashing flare, scoring Time’s passage.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged beach, Beauty, Gold, John Biscello, sea, sunset, time
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Alchemy
Lone gull, stops, listens, the gospel of alchemy– water turned to gold.
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Tagged alchemy, beach, Gold, haiku, John Biscello, sea, sea gull
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No Moral
Beach noir meets fable, Dashiell Hammett and Aesop filtered through lone gull.
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Tagged Aesop, beach, dashiell hammett, gull, haiku, John Biscello, sea
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Cape
A spectral, widespreading cape of lavender misting the seascape, and in the distance, a house, fronted by palms looking like shadowy pom-poms, its windows lighted eyes blazing swaths of yellow to imbibe the encroaching nocturne.
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Tagged beach, cape, John Biscello, lavender, mist, poem
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Nuptial
Splitting image, one sun mounts another, cradled in nuptial fire.
Shimmer
Light’s slow, basking crush on the sea’s shimmied wavelengths– A sunset affair.
Illustory
The sky, a photographic illusion, a veiled overlay, which the sun, in this starring instance, burns through from behind, creating a pinhole aperture through which one can vision proof of eternity, and its unending volumes of light.
Ripening
“They wanted to blossom, and blossoming is being beautiful. But we want to ripen, and this means being dark and taking pains.”–Rainer Maria Rilke O poor fragile blossom, hue of vetted contradiction, do bask in dark, soft, storied chambers and … Continue reading
The Rebirth of Aphrodite
The tasseled white veins of the sea pulsate and spread powdery billows. The wild expanse is a magnificent lay of azure froth and fizzing eyelets, goldened by the dragon’s teeth of sun. Clefted, between a rock and a soft place, … Continue reading
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