Tag: poetry
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Ajar
My door ajar, texts scampered in as if they were parcel tongues slithering in. They were powerful like the moon, my canine heart howled melancholic blues. Emerald eyes filled my mind, again, a single sentence brought back what once had been. Yet what had been to me was not what had been to you. Months…
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Once There Was Wendy
Once there was me with Wendy, in a time plucked back like bass strings before the drop. A picture once lived in my mind, before time spit it out like grass tore up in the hum of a lawnmower’s chomp. If honey is love, was our circumstance the bees? All day they worked, their tiny…
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Night Approaches
The night creeps like spiders, Fear the web of the many legged beast! The howls of men burn like fires, They burn the witches of the high priest. Lightning caws, the winds unwavered, Murmurs vanquished in thunder sheets. She cries objection in her own favor, But ignoble lords embrace conceits. The conceits of gods —…
Writings by Samson Mousa 