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Rhyme’s Word Is Sirius | Jim Bellamy - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Rhyme’s Word Is Sirius | Jim Bellamy

rhyme’s word is sirius, dogtooth in a samba.
rhyme fleeces its flesh and bone and
spires in a pyramidic valley.
rhyme rears, through hearse and arctic spume,
the straining ebbs of the rainbow’s gyre,
the cry of helm and envoi, sired and volleyed.

rhyme’s lave is daughtered by a jordanous fire.
the sermon in a scut, the glory that abides,
strips on the summits of verbotem.
rhyme that seeks Life, sparkling in the mouth,
as the shores of Israel, shall be found
and furnished with the yores of death verbatim.

who makes a rhythm? which rhyme is colour?
rhyme blows the starving angel in the vein.
rhyme is board and sovereign as time’s scheme-
the world is fusion made inside its searing peril-
a secret-in-a-vial, conserving with the seas,
sound knells the supine bell with runeous hammer.

behind a rock of rumour a lackadazing whistle
tells me of the hour, its harpstrung scream
flairing where the word expires, consumed and gleaming,
where harpischord and trumpet wind against a dream.
come of blood and mortar and the meadow’s signals,
cum of spark and ash, the rhymer grinds,
breaks and constrains then parries like a widow.
born of clang and crash, the whistler splits the choir.

especially when the rhymer reads-
(born of spring and summer and the autumn’s sister,
the angelus of winter and the dilly in the veins)
with linguid liquids, famishes and cleaves?-
come of an augur whose auguries are daughter
to the hearted heel of music, spiring come the showers
of the tocsins in the blood, warring and conspiring,
where, by bolt and oboe, the vowels of music flood.

glad in a shower of words, i listened?

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Mister Mephistopheles’ Tea-Party | Jim Bellamy - A Poetry Website Featuring Poems by Contemporary Poets

Mister Mephistopheles’ Tea-Party | Jim Bellamy

at the end of a rainbow, where the starfish spree; where the mermen glide
and the anemones weave- in the very middling centre of a cave at sea-
mister mephistopheles sits down for tea.

the table’s laid and the chairs
set to, and the lamplight’s motion is lighting the blue, and from the
middle of thunder come the guests to be, where mister mephistopheles sits
down for tea. and here there are potions and purple pomades, and songbirds
and dovebirds and fashionable raves, and here too are sermons and songs in
high key, where mister mephistopheles sits down for tea.

at the end of a
rainbow, at the end of the night, inside the other side, within the
smoking of a pipe- in the centre of a notion, in the middle of a plea-
mister mephistopheles sits down for tea.

and now the guests arrive by
midnight coach, and the best of the men wear a scarlet broach, and the
best of the hens wear a shaman’s beads, when mister mephistopheles sits
down for tea. and when the evening’s at an end, hellfire burns, and the
selling of a soul is all that’s earned- and the hellfire burns and the
hellfire flees- where mister mephistopheles sits down for tea.
and if you
should wonder whose teacups glint, then look no further than the eyelid’s
blink, and look no further than the fathomless sea- the haunt of mister
mephistopheles…

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