Seán Mac Falls

Seán Mac Falls Dec 2021

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Ravens scatter outside my pain.
A throw of die against the winters

First snow and the window needs cleaning,
Maybe later.  The running glass

Is watery and after I make love
With you, I wake to the severing light

That is always silent.  The phone
Does not ring, as my cat has told me

Many times, let us play she says,
The way it used to be under

The red wood beams on the hard wood
Floors, you would cry in that vacancy.

Though we lived in a one bedroom
Unfurnished, I called it a dance hall

And we danced silly tangos.  I tried
To lift you then, but now outside

My window, ravens dervish and never
Fly in formation, under blue mountain.
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Seán Mac Falls Nov 2021

Pining

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Dimples on her face,
Walking long miles without her,
Pebble in my shoe
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Seán Mac Falls Nov 2021

I Will Kiss . . .

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Rose of your ear,
Lantern in your eyes,
Forest of branching hair,
In Inverness of your midlands,
I shall broach lit vernal deltas,
Kiss deep into darkling depths,
Climb the leaved trunks of thigh,
Drunk in the moisted, muted sighs
Of promise, tendered to surrender,
I shall know your ripened *******,
As bloom of moon paints moons
At night, I will be ****** in milk—
That offers itself to leeching babe,
With little, lithe fingers you rake one,
A wan vagabond, *****, homeward,
I shall know your flowing wetness,
Below my desert, with purpose,
I am lost, in sleep and dream,
May I never wake, may I
Sleep, never, may eye
Always open, keep
In tableaus of oil,
Strokes, hues,
Glittering
Of you.
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#love #beauty #lovers #sensual

Seán Mac Falls Nov 2021

Body of Ocean Milk and Sky

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Body of ocean, milk and sky,
We are tangled in the hope of night.
The lips of the milky way, creaming us,
Stains and is **** with a taste keening;
All is creation. My meteors crash
Into your ruptured Earth. I flame
Upon your must and moisted furrows
And my toes are locked, rooted in yours.

Body of ocean, milk and sky,
In the deserts of the day you are true
Oasis. The curves and waft of your sands
Seethe and sodden my barren plains,
Are erasing all my wandering memories
Of an endless sky and now your eyes
Are the only stars I know, and your skin;
A sheet that holds the heavens shimmering.

Body of ocean, milk and sky,
Your ******* are the heaving of grasses
And wind, loft and laden in the rounded
Hills, a hoard of ****** bread, bountiful,
Ripe and strange. Your hair is an endless
Savannah, your valleys are gold and honeyed
With milk, seared, filled by my penetrating sun.
In passion we play; low on earth and deep in sky.
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Seán Mac Falls Nov 2021

Unbound Spectre

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Lifeless owl takes wing
Moon rising behind branches
Sundown for lost mouse
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#nature #birds #spirit #death #haiku

Seán Mac Falls Nov 2021

Love Breaking

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Under the white sheets
Flesh twined in the dark opaque
Till dawning broke us
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Seán Mac Falls Nov 2021

10 Images of the Raven

(Haiku)
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1
Black God

Huge cumulus clouds,
Exploding into the blue,
  .  .  .  Shadowed by raven

2
Valley Morn

Dark hands working fields,
Raven tracing mountain crests,
  .  .  .  Carnal tillers wake

3
Raven Spell

Dark sound raven makes,
Chortles top fir tree, haunting—
  .  .  .  Druids incantation

4
Unfaithful

Snow covers valley—
Solitary raven staining world,
  .  .  .  Love has turned black

5
Outcast

Many years alone,
Suddenly— old thoughts of her,
  .  .  .  Lone raven in sky

6
Mischief

Lone raven cackles  .  .  .
Clouds splinter across the sky,
  .  .  .  Mist cuts down the woods

7
Marked

Full moon crowns tall pine,
Raven landing in cross hairs,
  .  .  .  Dark angels halo

8
Loki

Raven knows a charm,
A child's costume jewelry,
  .  .  .  Colours a black eye

9
Tall Tale

Zenith of winter—
Lone raven in naked tree,
  .  .  .  Spring only legend

10
Dark Angel

In his feathered dress  .  .  .
Raven shrouds beneath the clouds,
  .  .  .  Even eyes are black
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#haiku #nature #ravens #birds #mystery