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Tag Archives: poem
Astro-Erotic
Orion’s numinous belt undone on the sly by Cassiopeia’s nimble, flaring digits, as he proceeds to enter her whorling sphere of glacial fire spread lightly to produce cosmic aaaaaahs and oooohs, while the green-eyed Moon, papal and robust, records the … Continue reading
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Tagged astro-erotic, constellations, Erotica, John Biscello, Melie, moon, poem, Poetry, recording, space, Stars, trip to the moon
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Retreat
Perfectly still dog, robed in dust; birds, choral and bright, flutter and thrash in needle-comb trees; I, this side of dream, trespass lightly.
Creed
As soon as your pen makes first contact with the page you have done yourself the great and holy service of destroying that viral boogeyman, Perfection, which has buried far too many acts of expression and faith, a dream-life darkened … Continue reading
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Tagged creation, creativity, creed, dreams, John Biscello, literary life, pen, perfection, poem, Poetry, ritual, self-expression, soul, spirit, writing, writing life
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Drum
Drum over me God, I am water under the bridge, threaded with silk and sewn with bones flowing, undammed, into the percussive folds of a liquid body, my name and past ceded to babbles of foam upon a colossal, quivering … Continue reading
Solitude #43
In my solitude, I have found myself wanting to shrink even further, into a speck of light, like lint from a star’s navel, or a velvety swath of dark absented from its tailored source; in my solitude, I long to … Continue reading
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Tagged discovery, insular, John Biscello, love, Masks, nothingness, poem, Poetry, pulse, radiant, solitude
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Burn
The out of womb blues, torch song on code red alert– Slow burning for home.
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Tagged birth, blues, burning, death, dreams, existential, great sadness, home, John Biscello, love, pain, poem, Poetry, sorrow, womb, yearning
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Baby Romantics
Baby Byron didn’t yet have language, so he twisted and contorted his face into a mask, a distressed aria sounding his discomfort. That it was existential, and not hunger, thirst, tiredness, or physical pain, meant nothing to him. Without language … Continue reading
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Tagged dreams, John Biscello, Lord byron, nursery, percy bysshe shelley, poem, Poetry, romanticism, The Romantics, william blake, william wordsworth
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Dive
Writer’s deep sea task, how to breathe underwater– Air of faith, no mask.
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Tagged air, dive, faith, haiku, John Biscello, literary life, ocean, poem, Poetry, scuba dive, sea, writer
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Cherish
Blossom, hue of vetted contradiction, between cherish and fade– Hours, like thorns, slow burn to chasten.
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Tagged Beauty, blosom, camellia, chasten, contradiction, flower, John Biscello, love, poem, Poetry, pure, white
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