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Radio Lens Flare
Glass and Metal
Skypiercers
Cobwebs
Cobwebs Sweating sugar cane, Concrete ravines, Mountains behind Standing icicles. Butterflies, Brilliance, And spitfire On rings Bouncing In rhythm and time To a pendulum During the climb, Frost setting in. Clawing brambles, Acidic herbs. Shattered fissures Before an expanse Of hazy mountains, Torn open to expose Cement cobwebs. Sidereal specks of Caltrop flowers Salt theContinue reading “Cobwebs”
Chrysalis Citadel
Chrysalis Citadel Banners flowing Off the structure’s top A palace tower Scattershot glitter on Grey pigment Scintillates in the sun Beams when clouds Are away Aglow the grey Cloud busters Bolted to chains On the jungle floor For support Anchored to A concrete jungle Acting as a monolithic Space glass needle Dome-capped At top MirroredContinue reading “Chrysalis Citadel”
Deneb Kingdom
Deneb Kingdom There was an artist Held captive in a castle Hidden away from the people High above the next-tallest tower He wrote and drew The things he knew Converted his experience Into wondrous art His captor took this art With no hand to its part Publishing it as her own Making her very well-knownContinue reading “Deneb Kingdom”
Uplift
Uplift The demolition team Looked at lost gleam Through plastic visors They gawk and admire A single brick tower From apartment’s power Shot to skylines Implying the lost time Glass windows at top Looked over the crop Of grey smokestacks And plain backdrops An elevator in shaft Custom built-to-craft Sat long un-levered on Long cablesContinue reading “Uplift”
Relic of Thyself
Relic of Thyself It was a cipher With a genius writer No matter the decipherer Decoding it wouldn’t make you wiser There is a price if it shall be Taken apart by the seams The code isn’t what’s at stake It’s what’s inside and how you think It is riddled with divots Marked with ridgesContinue reading “Relic of Thyself”
Tower Far Away
Tower Far Away The bell which noisily tolls Without purpose, it still mulls When it can’t hear itself ring It gets afraid and louder, poor thing Shut away far from us In the distance, weeping is brusk Sharp, shrill, constant wailing The bell is slowly failing The valley in which the tower lies Trees standContinue reading “Tower Far Away”