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May 2012 · 901
"Alone With the Tempter"
Apteryx May 2012
On Death's midnight hour I had not dream
The days hath gone away -- I couldn't deem
That the elder of these angels left the throne
And flown so sorrowfully by thee alone --
But thy lonesome soul shall limn to see
    Not one hovering spirit free --
And where -- shall the asperity scythe cast
Over visions of the shadowed Past --
   Of torrent of tormenting trauma
Filled with Manichaean mount and karma
  Restlessly rolling down necropolis
Past foot-hills of the dread that drop polis --
Or of the sound of a susurrus winged-sylph whom soar
Yet thunder her voice in a stricken Lion's roar
  And uphold herself on heavens vault
  And dare to curse that its all my fault --
So what now -- what now when the worst
  Is the Devil's tempest durst
      To ever define me to what I am today
           To ever price my soul to what I have to pay
When the final price was paid when the Lord bled fast away.
Dec 2011 · 1.1k
"Burial Ballet"
Apteryx Dec 2011
To still the aching
     from my ***** breaking
In each grisly leaf it wither, --
     by the cage the heron tether --
I mistook the form of a mien of lady
     in an oracle dream to fade he,
To fade -- to merely fade --
       onto the winged-sylphs they grayed --
So, to deepen the burning spirit
       lent it soar with a soul inherit
From the clasping
      Cherubim heart in grasping --
Grasping despite
      that heaven I respite, --
Respite the beaming of the orb
     the angels may absorb
And decorum, of a single token
     hung afar in the sky that's broken
So to be still in the evil,
      binds only onto that mortal devil
In a sepulcher enraptured
      as all my hopes within me captured
Within some dim Acheronian shore
      in the depth sea the Acheronian store --
Store a most beautiful belle
      I've ever kept in me ***** swell,
To palpitate my heart faster
     into some unfortunate disaster
In keeping, the shadow of fire,
      irradiating an ominous choir, --
A nightly lurking swan
     whom the waking angels wan
Their fiery plumes parching
     above the misted nimbus arching
The dim ray lighting down
    from the heaven whom now frown, --
Yet, to still the aching
      from my ***** breaking
For the most beautiful belle
     I've ever felt me ***** swell
To be still in the evil
     binds onto that mortal devil.
Oct 2011 · 940
"Somewhere Within"
Apteryx Oct 2011
Mount shifted-like ghouls
Risen in the dark sky's eminence
Where, there, soaring souls
Of a centre crown circumference
From out the waning moon
And of the warm nights of June --
(When the solace of the days to me
Were that of false Destiny),
Whereas I, too, worn the ring of Albatross
From pass unmitigated loss
Of a pulchritudinous lover
Whom the saintly cherubs uncover
The lacy-lilac flower of yore
Which lies, a warrior's life, no more.
Oh, quaff thy drugs in never regretting
For war as this that's worth forgetting;
Whether holy angels in these skies
Or daunted demons in disguise
As revenants, stern and severe,
Silently fume the censer here
Where the fallen brave flown to Avalon
From the dreaded dirge of Babylon
Lies fully somewhere within
As a chrysalis, a beautiful kin,
Oh somewhere within,
Somewhere within
Lies fully within
The lacy-lilac flower of yore
Which lies, a warrior's life, no more.
(c)2011 Poetry Foundation
Jul 2011 · 1.2k
"A Tale Of First Lovers"
Apteryx Jul 2011
In the kingdom of Toledo,
None burn bright as thy shadow
(From time very long ago)
A tale of first lovers –
(I and D’lorme)
Loved with the love that covers
The bay of a margin sea –

In the alleys of Toledo,
None radiated well as thy shadow
(From time not so long ago)
A tale of two lovers –
(Me and D’lorme)
Claim a star that hovers
Bellow our silent sea.

In the battles of Toledo,
All dim down as thy shadow
(Of a time we know so well, long ago,)
A tale of no lovers –
(‘Who?’ And D’lorme)
Never uncovers
The wound of a sunder sea –

In the welfare of Toledo,
By a dark tinctured shadow
(To a time long so far ago)
A tale of burnt lovers --
With 'her' and D'lorme;
With blood to the clovers
Drown in our golden sea.

In the debris of Toledo,
In the murky ashes of thy shadow
(From time to past o'er ago)
The tales of one lover --
('Gone' and D'lorme)
Whom now rediscover
The loss of his love in a lament sea.

To the angels above Toledo,
None burn bright as their shadow
(Of time given so long ago)
A tale of dead lovers --
(Isbella and D'lorme)
Together soaring then hovers
To the gallant sea.
(c) 2011 Poetry Foundation
Jul 2011 · 992
"Evenstars"
Apteryx Jul 2011
It was evening in spring,
And the tides of waves --
With orbits of the silent moon,
Wax and pale, craves
Of a queen irradiate bright,
'Mid stars as Nubians ,
Reign Herself with Utopians
Beaming with light.
For awhile, I glance,
(Fair mystic chance)
Fair- so fair to me-
She flown, o'er heaven,
As holier rosemary
Guided by a fairy
Left be poison airy-
I reached toward thee:
Queen of evenstars-
For love be even,
As an enamored rose
I once leapt before-
Before- when flame grows
Into a distant fire,
Ablaze aspire
Where the cord
Of a profound lord-
Twist the knife
Against my life
Afar- far-far-far-
To that which Beauty's scar
Is worship- in a evenstar.
(c) 2011
Jul 2011 · 1.5k
"Skylarks"
Apteryx Jul 2011
As skylarks departed
At rue in sorrow; --
Broke me half-hearted
From sever tears
And narrow --
Narrow, of my fears,

Which lolls
To the broken lily
That un-rolls
Her half-winged angels --
Wan and chilly,
To the pinions of the angels
Frore and chilly --

As skylarks departed
In tint of pearl;
Iris skies started
To sever the years
Of a little girl
That frolic wind swirl --

And lolls
To the broken lily
That un-rolls
Her half-winged angels --
Wan and chilly,
To the pinions of the angels
Frore and chilly --

As skylarks departed
In butterfly hue;
Spread far plumes parted
From severing peers,
With gossamer and dew
Drip upon me too.

And on it lolls
To the broken lily
That un-rolls
Her half-winged angels --
Wan and chilly,
To the pinions of the angels
Frore and chilly --

As skylarks departed,
Birds they cipher
Once were all parted
For sever cheers
They decipher
The stream of a sad lifer

That so lolls
To the broken lily
That un-rolls
Her half-winged angels --
Wan and chilly,
To the pinions of the angels
Frore and chilly --

When skylarks dis-hearted
Of a sussurous stream
Follow with rue darted
In my sever tears,
I've bled to cry and scream
As flown pass a dream.

And thus so lolls
To the broken lily
(As skylarks departed)
That un-rolls
(And broke me half-hearted)
Her half-winged angels --
Wan and chilly,
(From sever tears)
To the pinions of the angels
Frore and chilly --
(And shallow, of my fears)
(c) 2011 PoetryFoundation
Jun 2011 · 693
"Romance Lament"
Apteryx Jun 2011
I'm all alone
Within my soul I groan --
With a star-tide inside a stagnant sea;
Far till a maiden with the flushes of love there came Mèlanie:
Far till a maiden with the gushes of Lament's dove be name Mèlanie:

Oh, dim grew light
From the astral night
As the radiant Utopian orbs rain
In Astarte's vain
Upon the tinted pearling moon
Twinkling in our mystic noon, --
Whereas I touched with the lips of my own to Mèlanie:
Whereas I kiss Death's eclipse in the eyes alone of Mèlanie:

As of right now,
Be never to vow --
'Cause her winged-fabric soul
With the fiery pinion-foul,
May we burn naked ablaze in a fountain hole
And forever be draining our blood together, I and Mèlanie:
Forever be bound to the wrist and chain together, I and my Mèlanie:
(c) 2011
Jun 2011 · 2.9k
"Requeim For a Mockingbird"
Apteryx Jun 2011
Envy lies naked on a rose --
Blindly, on bed;
Tonight, -- we bind to shed
Ourselves from purpose
And dread
That sough us from hearing, --
Fearing...
The silent touch of Moire.

It lies darkly on thy posture
Of many a figure
And requiem for my mockingbird, --
Those of many a love of my mockingbird,
(The Reaper
And my keeper
Of my very own
Requiem for a mockingbird)
Alone, all alone
We bind to shed...

Alas! Now Death
Comes as Nepenthe for my mockingbird,
(The only love
I've come to unravel the love
Of my mockingbird)
Now, breathing from her now, the breath
Of my heart leapt
Out from a mockingbird
And slept
As my eyes bind dead...

This is a requeim for a mockingbird, --
The Reaper
And my keeper
Of my very own
Requiem for a mockingbird,
Alone, all alone
We bind to shed
Ourselves from purpose and dread
That sough us from hearing, --
Fearing...
The silent touch of Moire...
(c) 2010
Jun 2011 · 680
"A Hymn To Omen And Amen"
Apteryx Jun 2011
In dreams of the twilight rain
I've dreamt the orbs the angels ringed
Around the awakening of life and pain
Which hath me broken-winged.

The sound of the clashing swords
Echo in the orison I've prayed
With the chiding of silent words
Telling back at the Past I made.

Those holy angels- angels' beauty,
When all of the heaven
Melody luted a song with the fruity
Stars sparkling the Levin

To which cause the sun to kiss the moon
With angels and daemons caressing,
As to where saying 'Amen' will real soon
Hath the Omens' shadows compressing...
(c) 2011
Jun 2011 · 813
CLXXXIV
Apteryx Jun 2011
I'll knot irises,
blue chords of flowers wreathed as
laces for my feet.
Jun 2011 · 716
CLXXIII
Apteryx Jun 2011
bind onto stillness -
(impenetrably on stone)
scarab's shrill sounded.
Jun 2011 · 498
CLXXII
Apteryx Jun 2011
the claret sun fades;
fire still burns the sea-waves,*
*
winking flares of wind.
Jun 2011 · 506
CLXXI
Apteryx Jun 2011
a poet dies young
when facing trepidation
at pale blind caged-swans.
Jun 2011 · 1.6k
CLXX
Apteryx Jun 2011
the moonlit breathed out
From the vast laburnum grove---*
    *
lies a cuckoo's wing.
Jun 2011 · 678
CLXIX
Apteryx Jun 2011
none heard the battle
of the cicada's song-cry*
  *
that they belong dead.
Apr 2011 · 1.8k
"Alorè"
Apteryx Apr 2011
Alorè, she-winged orb,
     *Aidenn's story,

As of ev'ry of all stars absorb
   Moorish wars and glory.

Dulcet wings she tether,---
  Mighty kinsmen grayed
By unlocking clean of her
   Beauty's Bridesmaid.

  In each pearling Note
    As syrup entwining
Silently thro' her sacred throat---
  Who here pins a-singing?

Voyeurs there take pleasure
       Leering forward
At the Seraph's ******* treasure,
  All mastered by one measure
Of Alorè's harsh sharp-sword.

Alorè's wings do they a-part
      Off of the Empyrean
Out the dead the sun of Lords depart
    The Dawn of Aurorean.

         Ancient welfare
     Upon Achaean's Night,
Where all the sea-seraphs a-delight,
No mortal can't escape the light
   *Of the She-Winged ******* affair.
(c) 2011
Apr 2011 · 1.0k
"Myself No More"
Apteryx Apr 2011
I am
those rouged lips,---
spring waters,
clear,
yet unknown;
I am
the cicada's sound,
repelled birds,
feathers
and stone;
I am
Laburnums---
lynching leaves
they fall, ---
floating on the air,
I am
the skylark,
Beauty's bridesmaid---
Forgotten
In fever's eyes;
I am
the black python
screeching
open mine stitched lips
bleeding forth
I am---
Done,
Sick of this,
Finished,
Pealing open my wounds
to see what I got left of,
I am,---
Not what I use to be;
Nor not what I want to be,
Thus so,
I am
no one---
Instead I'm here
stringing up a knot
From up these reedy webs
I use to be....
So I am,
I am
myself no more.

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