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The Clink Of Keys In The Dreaming Echo Where Oceans Bare Not - A Poem by Richard William Kirkpatrick-Thorne - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

The Clink Of Keys In The Dreaming Echo Where Oceans Bare Not – A Poem by Richard William Kirkpatrick-Thorne

Barbed And Killing Its Mystery,
Dragging A Hump Dry Across The Aisle Between Pews,
Then To Creep With The Setting Shift Of Fadeing Day
Up ALong The Tapestry And Its Symbiotic Knottings,
Prying With Relentless Edge To Slide Wet And Peeling Under Its
Borrowed-True Walls,
Whispering With A Throbbing Null… Worming Its Way To The Pinnacled
Arch,
InTo The Golden Touches Of Nuance Amongst The Mistletoe And Apertured
Revulsion,
As Cups With Their Swords Collect For Hollow Tooth And Claw,
To Strip The Dancers Below Of Their Spirited Fetish…


Then With Threads To Descend Wordlessly InTo Hysteria,
UnLocking Each Hand Of Its Life… To The Lines… For Geists As
Gists…


A Cemetery For Elementary Bearers Under Universeal Laws,
When It Be Fit To Sleep Under The Assureing Heft Of A Slitting Fold
Down-Adorned InTo Comfort And Its Symbolic Clotheings,
Spying With Eye Pressed To Chaliced Raise To Set When Splitting APart
As Will Arrowed-Through,
Dulling The Thistle Of Its Bobbing Fill… Emergeing As Knighted To
The Collapsed March,
Exiting With A Cacophonous Stumble InTo The Face-Grease And Staggered
Impulse,
As Armed, Lipped, And Worded-Direct For Shallow Grave And Stone,
To Strap The Singers Above To Their Desperate Flesh.

More at http://rwkt.blogspot.ca/2014/07/the-clink-of-keys-in-dreaming-echo.html.

Tell Me about Love, Lost or Otherwise - A Poem by G. S. Katz - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

Tell Me about Love, Lost or Otherwise – A Poem by G. S. Katz

I am a poet
I am an artist
I work in Sales
I sell stuff that people need but
Its not sexy

My mind is sexual
My vision has always been clear

I write for those who can’t
I write for those who won’t
I write for those who are oppressed
I write for all who are in a sexual prison

I am here
And you can write to me
I need the dialogue
I need those who can feel

Tell me what you want
Tell me what you can’t tell anyone else

Tell me about love, lost or otherwise
Tell me about pain
Tell me about desire and craving and lust
Just tell me

Because I will listen
And I will learn

I am your Dominant
I am your slave

I am …….

Infatuation - A Poem by Wanda Morrow Clevenger - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

Infatuation – A Poem by Wanda Morrow Clevenger

my uncle cracked
a smile
when I asked if
I could have the calendar
tacked to
his garage wall

“why?”

“because I like it”

“no, he said,
you don’t need that”

I never asked
what he thought
when I asked, if
he even remembered
me asking,
but suspected
he took pause

to alleviate the
awkwardness
I might have
explained right off
what I actually
wanted
was to sketch
the nudes,
especially the twins,
but thought he
wouldn’t understand
the infatuation

More at http://wlc-wlcblog.blogspot.com/.

Roundelay - A Poem by Roy K. Austin - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

Roundelay – A Poem by Roy K. Austin

Identity- an empty shell
yet feel the limpet grip the scaur
and yes, it is a living thing
for at my touch it grips the more.
Are we the theatre of our time,
the characters that come and go
for if we radiate like stars
it is our centre we should know?
And if we be the characters
are we the author here, to say
‘lets take the memory we played
with and let us as actors, play’!
Our preconceptions vary so
and keep us tight unto the tether,
how will we ever know the love
that holds it all together,
how will we ever get parole
or will we ever make the break?
All space and time is irony
to live behind those bars we make?
Come look into the void of space
see what is dancing in your face,
and ask there, is the Milky way
a Roundelay, a Roundelay?

More at roykaustin.weebly.com.

Shirt Not Tucked In - A Poem by G. S. Katz - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

Shirt Not Tucked In – A Poem by G. S. Katz

if I go on the famous TV show
hold me to this
won’t tuck in my shirt, won’t shave
that’s what fame is
doing what you want because you can

if the interview is live
they are in trouble
better have the 7 second delay cocked
the F bomb is loaded and ready

boring doesn’t get good ratings
boring gets you invited back
not going back
this is a one time only
the rest will take care of itself in the tabloids

fame is money and freedom
freedom from the norm
best bet is to be a writer
you get good tables at restaurants
you can still walk down the street
only the chosen know you
and will probably not be morons…

The Emperor Knew It Was Closeing - A Poem by Richard William Kirkpatrick-Thorne - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

The Emperor Knew It Was Closeing – A Poem by Richard William Kirkpatrick-Thorne

Go… As Constantine InTo The Colosseum,
UpOn The Weakening Necks Of Serpentine Gods…


Spiralling Staircases Winding Down InTo The Eras Of Haste,
You Will Find Slick Boroughs And Stick Men,
With Sticky Meat Piled High On Market-Placed Altars,
Sweet Poison Wafting From Shuttered Cracks,
Catatonic Stoneings And Old Fashioned Barterings,
There Is No Sky… Only Wires And Rain OverHead,
One Thing Or The Other To Stab InTo Your Jacket And Slice Off A
Chunk,
The Tribes There Have Their Prophets Etched InTo Their Clocks And
Closets…

Shrines With Back-Doors Leading To Deeper Markets,
Their Salesmen Have No Lips… And So They Sell No Romance,
A Crumbleing Recess With The Occasional Murmur Of Fadeing Light,
And If You Linger A Minute Too Long… The Light Becomes A Sliver…

Embeds ItSelf InTo You…



Then The Door Shuts… Locks Tight,
All BeComes As It Was BeFore… Hidden From What Was Above,
And The Only Thing Giveing Off A Glow…

Is You.

More at http://rwkt.blogspot.ca.

The Third Act - A Poem by Roy Pullam - Read Poetry Online by Talented Contemporary Poets

The Third Act – A Poem by Roy Pullam

We look for an oasis
In our retirement
A place where shade
Breaks the aging sun
A place of peace
Where the water
Runs sweet
Where cooling breezes
Break the wilting heat
But age is relentless
Invading the best
Of plans
Leaving infirmity
In its wake
The unsettling fears
That what we have
Is not enough
That our burden
Will be shared
Against our will
With those we love
Those who pick up
The shards
Of the mirror
That once reflected
An independent soul

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