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Tryst Feb 2016
Winter, From Summer

Winter's kiss reveals
barren nests in arbored rests
summer's love conceals

Winter's veil behests
larder meals in burrowed fields
summer's sleep divests


Summer, From Winter

Summer's hand repeals
frigid tests of nature's guests
winter's grasp unseals

Summer's warmth invests
life's ordeals on newborn squeals
winter's chill arrests
Daniel Samuelson Feb 2016
The mockingbird in arbored sanctum
rehearses his newest musing
an addition to his lifelong
plagiaristic monologue

satisfied,
he ***** into the chaparral
to declaim his litany to
anything with ears.
Do these lovely grounds permit me
Of my present presence, like thistle
Be unwanted and undaunted

Taken greatly in arbored orchard
May my refuge grow demure
Taken often by lapping banks
May my breath grow slow and slight

By those tentacline roots
Those heightened and lengthy articles
May that shade and slanted sallow
Blanket lightly my discomfort

Ne’er is there such wondrous sedation
Then this lilting life, by waterside
And no bile ink nor vitriol
May ever dissipate this lovely truth
Anurag Mukherjee Oct 2018
I am never running empty, honestly,
but catching up is difficult, catching up to light-
light, that political, exquisite meal.

I have not puzzled out whether adding what
needs to be said must conform to what should be said.
My ideas are arbored, but they are also acetylene torched.
These unbitted days of rose cough up a pus
that evolves out of a naked trauma.

I wish someone served me my brain on a plate
with a ribbon tying it to a viral video.

Evaluation of faith in squares needs to be considered.
As a possibility. I am thinking in possibilities.
I am thinking I can live long enough to know
if I can live long enough to know

if I can change my taste, my raunchy grace.
Ryan O'Leary Apr 2022
What Better Yearn

But for the lake Isle
with such a title, I do
wonder how else he
could have portrayed
a' refuge for freedom'.

I have been there, no,
not just in his state of
mind, but on the strand,
near that little moat of
arbored earth, in water.



ps.

in case you missed it
the abstruse subliminal
is hidden in the title.

ps x 2

W.B.Y.

look again,

Yeats.

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