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Aug 2019 · 409
Kaleidoscope Lace
Amanda Sheehan Aug 2019
A Rush of spring
Ever in my veins
And the days
Kaleidoscope lace
All was Midas touched,
Pure gold
But now eternity too
Grows old
Aug 2019 · 14.8k
It Goes on Running
Amanda Sheehan Aug 2019
It’s a vital red
A scorpion’s sting
A piercing and
Unending scream
It ripped apart the
Heart of me
And still it
Goes on running
Jul 2019 · 212
Never Again
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
I will never again
Hold you in a
Tangle of roses
I will never again
Touch your
Celestial skin
But like a
Lost moon
I will orbit
Your memory
Until the night
Takes me where
You’ve been
Jul 2019 · 656
Another Invitation
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
At the grand party
Dressed in my best
I whirl round like a mad dervish
How to take all of the gold under my skin
All in just one night
I claw at the gates of eternity
Begging for another invitation
Jul 2019 · 262
Lost Kingdom
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
I thought we built
Our walls of crystal
But glass shards fell
All around us
As we stood beneath
A blood red moon and
Wept for what had
Never been
Jul 2019 · 287
No Man's Land
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
Love like ambrosia
Melted me to
A golden river
I thought you’d wind me
Through paradise valleys
But I find myself
Alone, in no man’s land
Jul 2019 · 309
Black Veils of Mourning
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
Every inch a battlefield
Charred and pitted
Earth
I can admit no
Seeds
Only black
Veils
Of mourning
Jul 2019 · 193
Acrid Colors
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
It’s on my tongue
Dripping down my bones
Its eaten away everything
So don’t be surprised, if I
Sway when I should stand
It’s like a horizon
The furthest beyond I
Can ever
see
My marble eyes crack, melt in the
Sulfur of its
sunset
With forceful strokes, I
Always paint these acrid colors
Jul 2019 · 1.0k
Leviathan
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
Almost out of body
Almost mad from the
Pressure of it-
Great leviathan
Crouching on my rib cage
My heart strains to grow wings,
To take flight when I glimpse
The poisonous rubies of its eyes
And when its fanged mouth opens to
Set me aflame
I wonder if
I’ll ever stop burning
Jul 2019 · 314
Broken Compass
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
Holding a broken compass
For you were my way
Feeling I might as well
Not have feet at all
Jul 2019 · 195
Dawn to Dawn
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
Arms full of it
Only half knowing
It was golden
Only half holding
On
Always believing
In roses, in doorways
Cut from air, leading from
Dawn to dawn
Jul 2019 · 283
Black Kiss
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
I turn my lips from your
Black kiss
But it drifts on the
Wind
Its poison sting finding
My trembling skin
Turning all of my gold
To ashes
Jul 2019 · 333
Frolicking Foxes
Amanda Sheehan Jul 2019
Frolicking foxes
Leap from your lips
Rip
Past the white and ruby
Toward the denouement of
Empty disputes
I watch from behind
Chain link fence slicing my fingers
The weight of my silence takes
Shape in your eyes
Heralds a rush
Of crimson blazes

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