"cravenly" poems - Hello Poetry

“Graceless Ravens Envy You,” by Eric Robert Nolan Revel in apostasy. You are the black dove, hovering High in an inklike arc. Blacker, even, than coal-colored wolves in onyx lines seeking quarry at starless midnight. More ebon, even, than narrow sable blacksnakes staying cravenly in shade at noon. Darker, even, than murders of crows, newly legion at Autumn, amassing among saw-wing martins at dusk. You’re blacker, even, then the rooks. Graceless ravens envy you. Remember your rebirth? The sun rose, Your birdsong changed and then the questions flew from your beak faster even than the wrens? Faster than you could fly? For a moment, they rendered all the world obsidian. Remember your feathers burning? Sunlight striking your wings and then all the slow alabaster there singing, quickening into aerodynamic black? Remember the flock’s suspicion? Remember your siblings, the nest? Remember when all their pearl heads turned their backlit crowns in morning sun ringed so thinly in shining ivory? Their song was interrupted, Yours was made a query — empiricism’s aria. Flustered, they fluttered at all the low notes. There were all immaculate; you were the color of night. Now you arc alone — soar and sin and sing, unrepentant one. Somewhere an ordinary dog, awakening from shadow, howls at the sun. (c) Eric Robert Nolan 2015

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Oct 3, 2015

Oct 3, 2015 at 11:42 PM UTC

eric-robert-nolan

“Graceless Ravens Envy You"

“Graceless Ravens Envy You,” by Eric Robert Nolan Revel in apostasy. You are the black dove, hovering High in an inklike arc. Blacker, even, than coal-colored wolves in onyx lines seeking quarry at starless midnight. More ebon, even, than narrow sable blacksnakes staying cravenly in shade at noon. Darker, even, than murders of crows, newly legion at Autumn, amassing among saw-wing martins at dusk. You’re blacker, even, then the rooks. Graceless ravens envy you. Remember your rebirth? The sun rose, Your birdsong changed and then the questions flew from your beak faster even than the wrens? Faster than you could fly? For a moment, they rendered all the world obsidian. Remember your feathers burning? Sunlight striking your wings and then all the slow alabaster there singing, quickening into aerodynamic black? Remember the flock’s suspicion? Remember your siblings, the nest? Remember when all their pearl heads turned their backlit crowns in morning sun ringed so thinly in shining ivory? Their song was interrupted, Yours was made a query — empiricism’s aria. Flustered, they fluttered at all the low notes. There were all immaculate; you were the color of night. Now you arc alone — soar and sin and sing, unrepentant one. Somewhere an ordinary dog, awakening from shadow, howls at the sun. (c) Eric Robert Nolan 2015

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i've a pale carnivore, slaying passively the night in my cotton ember and with velvet detergent she sprays me ***** loose hinges cravenly and pink and disheveled lips i split unmutable vast minute vines snare exactly my naked burning crust an shuck absolutely the dull sheathe of my so unlovely ****

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Nov 19, 2010

Nov 19, 2010 at 1:53 PM UTC

patrick-wakefield-1

i've a pale carnivore

i've a pale carnivore, slaying passively the night in my cotton ember and with velvet detergent she sprays me ***** loose hinges cravenly and pink and disheveled lips i split unmutable vast minute vines snare exactly my naked burning crust an shuck absolutely the dull sheathe of my so unlovely ****

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~ so obvious the mistake the ordered disorganization the summation of a man's life in an ampersand - a logogram connection tween two words, finally, properly sequenced error then trial, then error then trial perception - my life is an endless trial punctuated and worsened, periodically pierced by errors made of your own free (not really) choosing *"whenever confronted by a fork in my road, I always chose wrongly"* and aye, here's the rub the same mistake made repeatedly example prime: falling in love is just another way of saying gonna end badly and you constant cravenly confess to yourself the ending unbecoming cause you can read the handwriting on the wall for your specialty is only love poetry for dummies

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Apr 9, 2017

Apr 9, 2017 at 9:31 AM UTC

onlylovepoetry

error & trial (love poetry for dummies)

~ so obvious the mistake the ordered disorganization the summation of a man's life in an ampersand - a logogram connection tween two words, finally, properly sequenced error then trial, then error then trial perception - my life is an endless trial punctuated and worsened, periodically pierced by errors made of your own free (not really) choosing *"whenever confronted by a fork in my road, I always chose wrongly"* and aye, here's the rub the same mistake made repeatedly example prime: falling in love is just another way of saying gonna end badly and you constant cravenly confess to yourself the ending unbecoming cause you can read the handwriting on the wall for your specialty is only love poetry for dummies

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lust. No. Lust... That need which cravenly capitalizes upon itself. Covet -- lust. Hunger -- lust. Adult -- lust. Blood -- lust. My eyes are burning red and I cannot see the forest for the bruised beautiful ****** bare branches.

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Jul 5, 2013

Jul 5, 2013 at 10:08 AM UTC

zachary-l

base emotions

lust. No. Lust... That need which cravenly capitalizes upon itself. Covet -- lust. Hunger -- lust. Adult -- lust. Blood -- lust. My eyes are burning red and I cannot see the forest for the bruised beautiful ****** bare branches.

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It fell away Guess I did the same A house of broken pipes Somehow set aflame Made what no one knows Irregular and grey As I slide into dark belts They lean towards the day Heavily scarred, cravenly armed Substituted by snake charmer’s son Such a lasting fever on Ice, rocks and methane Guess I got a freezer burn Can’t come out and play Death is going out of style Its permanence a haze By the never-setting moon The craters wait and pray Heavily scarred, cravenly armed Sits the ice dwarf with a core of sun New Horizons coming on Like a wood-chip piano Hope it finds something on me Besides ivory, lamp or vine Cause this double planet Has got the third zone blues Hanging lonely like a Disco ball of golden hues Heavily scarred, cravenly armed Bound to leave this perfect circle, cloud and crumb

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Nov 19, 2011

Nov 19, 2011 at 8:34 PM UTC

lucy-tonic

Plutino (Third Zone Blues)

It fell away Guess I did the same A house of broken pipes Somehow set aflame Made what no one knows Irregular and grey As I slide into dark belts They lean towards the day Heavily scarred, cravenly armed Substituted by snake charmer’s son Such a lasting fever on Ice, rocks and methane Guess I got a freezer burn Can’t come out and play Death is going out of style Its permanence a haze By the never-setting moon The craters wait and pray Heavily scarred, cravenly armed Sits the ice dwarf with a core of sun New Horizons coming on Like a wood-chip piano Hope it finds something on me Besides ivory, lamp or vine Cause this double planet Has got the third zone blues Hanging lonely like a Disco ball of golden hues Heavily scarred, cravenly armed Bound to leave this perfect circle, cloud and crumb

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Extravagant silver locks fly feathers in the sky-frame, gaggle of geese stears towards sunsets of yesterday greyish tentacle hand figures shadow puppet men conceal the ripest of minds ate limes on trifling gates constantly conflicted contagious curtains ceremonial currents cravenly libertine auspicious precepts extolled hither dispiriting flourish apostate gallantry divul@() 56$#sZ..*,"(6#_-?@!!12%kad_6':

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Oct 14, 2018

Oct 14, 2018 at 6:09 PM UTC

courtofowls

Big words

Extravagant silver locks fly feathers in the sky-frame, gaggle of geese stears towards sunsets of yesterday greyish tentacle hand figures shadow puppet men conceal the ripest of minds ate limes on trifling gates constantly conflicted contagious curtains ceremonial currents cravenly libertine auspicious precepts extolled hither dispiriting flourish apostate gallantry divul@() 56$#sZ..*,"(6#_-?@!!12%kad_6':

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