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Boy
I am a young boy, fated to innocence, walking through the lavender mist of Time’s softly slipped dream, every grain of sand a stitch in the marvel of kingdom’s comely veil. Advertisements
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged boy, dream, hymn, innocence, John Biscello, poem, sea, wonder, words
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Kite
My desire to feel God is the same as the child’s dreamlipped desire to kiss the red kite bobbing and arcing far and away tethered to his wrist a wordless prayer given over to wind and sky.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged dreams, God, innocence, John Biscello, kiss, kite, love, wind
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Petals
The white rose, impaled, knows itself beyond nomenclature and perish, inviolably Pure, a longing to feel the spring wind, and its alluvial fingers, upon bruised petals, fallen.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged innocence, John Biscello, love, Poetry, purity, spring, white rose, wind
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Liason
Adore, the charmed offspring of Love’s prickly liason with Innocence before it ripens and falls.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged erotic, fall, innocence, John Biscello, kiss, love, lust, play, poem, Poetry, ripe
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Neverland Exposed
Peter Pan’s Jesus complex turns flights of fancy into guilty pleasures, sacred geometry into zero accountability, stillborn freezes into high, happy fevers, starling charms into martyred alibis, deeply felt distances into shallow runs of intimacy, and yet beneath all the … Continue reading
Innocence
Blindly, blindly, blindly, she reaps every choice from my scythe and asking. I live with brute innocence and murder in her heart. I am not her child, I am her fiction, her sad fable and paling wrath.
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Beauty, dream, enclosure, innocence, John Biscello, love, poem, Poetry, rebirth, sadness, sorrow, wrath
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Unrequited
Pale girl’s greenest grief, fleeced by soft seedless petals– Hands blooming to freeze.
Posted in Artwork, Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged death, dreams, grief, haiku, hamlet, innocence, John Biscello, love, Ophelia, poem, Poetry, shakespeare, unrequited love
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In Love and War
I dumped all my G.I. Joes out of the shopping bag and onto the pavement of the driveway. I separated the good guys from the bad guys, and then arranged them in specific positions. Before initiating a battle, or an … Continue reading
Epitaph
Eden as live bait, we fall hook line and sinker– Epitaph for love.
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Tagged badlands, bait, bisti badlands, eden, garden, innocence, invocation, John Biscello, love, poem, Poetry, romance
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Innocence
The party ended and I went to Gillian’s house. I was between places and Gillian was letting me stay with her temporarily, which given our history was a tribute to her character. We had been in a tumultuous three-year relationship, … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged Beauty, Brooklyn, heartbreak, innocence, John Biscello, los angeles, novel, Prose, relationship, romance, sadness, story
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