The Word Arranger

I just store what's left of my poetry here. I don't know why you're even looking at this.

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Inevitable Confrontation

What is coming at me And has been for some time Is like a train And I am done with my fretting About how I can dodge it Or delay it Or avoid it

I will let it barrel into me I will lean into that implacable locomotive But here is the trick: By then I will have turned noncorporeal

It will careen through me And it will be its miserable passengers that will have to feel ME pass through them THEM For a change

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Transconflagrification

I now have all that I desire Having meditated on the fire I cannot be as I have been Now its tongues have touched my skin The orange and red, the warming light Has lifted me to my maiden flight I wonder what, in this twisted game Is as like me as I am the flame

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You Don’t Want to Go In the Desert (old, written from memory)

the wily wind will now begin a trillion razors start to spin this reckless wild wonder sculpts the dunes, their peaks and troughs in desolate perfection its masterwork is wrought weather beating, shelter-eating a gory dry goodbye, its greeting glass pixies riding mighty gusts strip all flesh down to scattered dust where once stood spires of alunite lay withered skulls of starkest white vultures stalking to and fro where should be cliffs of firm gabbro to say nothing of obsidian stolen away to an evil end in place of yellow orthoclase carnivores give camels chase but let's forget this talk of stone as you are only meat and bone

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Some of Existence

The bird hangs eerily in the air, is power checked A hill lies restfully on the plain, is flower-flecked My plants sneak cautiously from the soil, not uncropped, most The clouds grind lazily through the sky, all unstopped ghosts The world spins grievously in the light, a living thing All time worms painfully through the void, a driven sting

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A Breakdown

Made mistakes Broke all the trust Broke all the means Broke all the love Contract is suspended 

Said your piece All of the pain All of the dark All of the heart Dialogue upended

I perish In blackened wood In blackened dress In blackened mood Just as God intended

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Bindings

Razors unclog a gory sea

I wash away the stain of me

At least, that is my fantasy

But I am pinned to misery

A stone-cold, worn facsimile

Unstoppably, eternally

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You Will Let Me Out

By the iron ring The endless gold string And the song crows sing You wretched old thing You will let me out

By the heart of lead The snaking black thread And the vanquished dead Your louse-riddled head You will let me out

By the sublime caves The unearthly knaves And the ancient staves You pathetic slaves You will let me out

By the poisoned blood The untimely flood And the foulest bud Your mind is but mud You will let me out

By the deepest hells The wailing death knells And wickedest spells Your funeral bells You will let me out

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Rite of the Mantle

I now prepare this sacrament A blessed, heathen covenant This mantle, now, will come alive Toward greatness we together strive Impervious thread and ghostly tread, interwoven pair

The wisdom to know right from wrong A winding road, forever long The bravery to save a life A curv'ed blade that cuts through strife From ancient power, foes will cower, we fight back on back

Purest intentions, free from sin We spread to every place we've been Kindness, mercy, at our behest We triumph over every test I am the best with you on my chest, I give you this shape

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The Silence of Daylight

To hear the sound the sun makes as it screams across the sky To know the pleas of grass and trees, who only ask us why Rocks and streams, which whisper dreams, and dot and wind The landscape flings you to the things you search for and you find All our words, both loud and proud, allow us not to seize Upon the treasures, magicks, pleasures, gifted us by these

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Outside Magicks

The wind flees my gaze The river's gone home Heat expelled from the nase The rock still hides the tome Invoke the sun's sedation

Light the spark Spread the flame From out the park And down the lane Fill me with elation

The heavens swayed A turnabout The whirling blade I am without A little hesitation

Energy crackles My powers grow There are no shackles I am aglow Complete the evocation

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Underpass (old, written from memory)

As trenchant as a viper’s fang As deadly as the sea The melody my lover sang Was empty as could be When darkness fell to take her I still could taste her kiss Has she met her maker? Or is there only this?