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The Starting Point – a cywydd deuair fyrion
What matters most, do you suppose, at living’s end when these doors close: the riches cached, the virgins wooed, the years achieved, the sins eschewed? Or is it all a pointless ruse, that defeats all – no win or lose, … Continue reading
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Tagged cywydd deuair fyrion, daily poems, death, eternity, Welsh verse forms
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The flicker flame: a clogyrnach
Who can say what form the end takes? The path each of us chooses makes no two lives the same. The snuff of one flame? A wind came – a mistake; while yet another’s candle’s spark may grow immense, and … Continue reading
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Tagged chance, clogyrnach, death, life, poetic forms, time, Welsh verse forms
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Wounded to the Core: Chaucerian stanzas
If you would comprehend the world at all, imagine this: a place so pure and wild it knows just spring, not summer yet, or fall. Like a capricious, spoiled and errant child it knows not between sacred and defiled, but … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaucerian stanza, death, decay, earth, poetic forms, rebirth, rime royal
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The Catacombs of Night
Lo! I have wrestled angels in the catacombs of night and risen, as if from the dead, bone-weary, at daylight, my sheets soaked through with fevered sweat and every muscle sore, and tufts of mutilated feathers scattered on the floor, … Continue reading
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Tagged angels, death, dilemmas, fear, night, paradox, sleep, transformation, William Blake
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On Heartbreak
It breaks my heart to think of you out there in pain; I hope you, too, likewise consider how I feel in your attempts to keep it real. I wonder, though, if broken hearts are not in fact where real … Continue reading
Before the Last Visit to the Vet
The smell of the sick-house lingers where the medicines are mixed; even fresh washed clothes and fingers tend to keep the reek of it. The taste of food is changed, its scent turned sour and stale, reducing appetites to nil … Continue reading