Royal Superstition
“I don’t want to be a tragedy,”
cried the sweet cloud of dark sorrow
upon the muse of an idle God.
Rose-colored guitars explode
within your heart.
Sweet rain in the month of Jupiter
spits fire in the hallway
of desire through the gutter’s
of an ocean black.
Fireflies call the fish
to leap against the orange moon
of a mountain pillow.
Frogs on rainbows of rocket ships
fly like demons of a greater evil.
Teardrop
The clouds whimper
the tragic operetta
of a decaying
sky.
The New Nature
Above
the ground
grow beautiful
billboards with
lovely branches of
ads.
It’s all Dark
When the wicked moon reveals
her dark side,
I will then
conceal mine.
To My Wife: Love, We Must Part Now
If, my darling
an April Sunday brings the snow
at the chiming of light upon sleep,
come then to prayers.
When the night puts twenty veils,
lift through the breaking day.
Morning has spread again.
If grief could burn out,
this is the first thing:
love again.
*Poem constructed out of Philip Larkin poetry titles.
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