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Sean Winslow Apr 2014
There must be respite in the ebon quake
lids like nightling moths,
fluttered above the littered fields
barren but for the ebb and tide of moonlight
thick as milk.
Feeble grip shakes loose
tossed down below a carbon root
took hold,
a heart in repose
as it would to the sounds
of thunder.
try not to panic
Copyright ©2010-2014 Sean Winslow All Rights Reserved
Michael Marchese Oct 2022
Nightling
In the quiet rapture
Soon to take you out
To pasture
Casting shadows
On the wall
As in and out
Of love
I fall
And scrawled a codex
On the floor
Rosetta ******
In Nevermore
Eternally
Nocturnal
Wake
Forsaken son
Of goodness sake
I’ll break into
Your safest space
And bank on black
You’ll never find me
See you at
My not-so timely
Unassuming
Doom and gloom
Just feed me to the void
In bloom
Max Neumann Mar 2020
my best friend gökhan tatchouop
you are gone
faded out like a song
you will never come back

i we we i lost track
you will never come back
the brothers and sisters
are protecting the platform

golden dusty hair
sitting on rusty chairs
guardians of the right cause
a good man does the right thing

i transformed into a nightling
as i listened to your voice
the last time as you
wrote your last rhyme

we were poets
we were taggers we were brothers
we were the same and an other
we longed for fame

you are gone gökhan
you will never come back
but you remain in the dust of
the brothers and sisters

they will never leave
they are always there
guardians of the platforms
guardians of trains

like gods supernatural
creatures: violent protectors
willing to attack anybody
who spits against your grave

REST IN PEACE MY MAN
SINCERELY MIKEY YOUR FAN
Today is a heavenly day, Gökhan, I wrote this poem in memoriam to you, you know? It's been more than ten years that you died, but I can't forget you. I simply can't.

MUCH LOVE FROM HERE WHEREVER YOU ARE, BABY.
acacia Sep 2020
Nightling born of foamed waves, formed at the bottom of Mountain’s brine rock. A desire whipping around her ankles. Sea became hands, and hands ****** a tear away. Pulling from the yore ether, fibers and other things become sewn about, as Mountain rolls over to awaken. Mountain looks down to see plateaus of oneiric islands. Mountain’s first intuition bred islands that It encompassed. Things moved forward, the islands multiplied, and It closed its eyes to see the board’s full scape again. Dreamed, though, it did, of the landscape:                          bubbles, seastring, bluey harmons. Rocky sand, covered in darling blue. Giggles wandered by both left and right ears, but a drowned out symphony. Foggy was the smell, and murky was the seen: trapped in perfection, ******* are hanging. Blue eyed, brown hair, strands repel gravity under the sea. Topped off her hat, swam away, hips moving right to right again.

Her sumptuous body, scale and skin: purple on one side, cornflower blue on another: PM to the night, curls fell to her tailbone, voluptuous *** to poke out, bossom large as two moons. Skin brown and black like grounded coffee and rusted ships. She wondered by the hour of things reminiscent, to her somehow, deja vu dreaded her nuova-epimind. Something felt moving, she needed to remind herself. Drumming her fingers so effortlessly, moving her hips so delicately, the sway around her created residual numbers to count. It formed a hula hoop encircling and latched onto her waist: a personal clock. Ineffability relayed in her mind: she needed to explain herself.

Burnt lips kiss a coolen sky, molten rock forms from her eyelids: she pretends to belt out a shriek and from her pearls of saliva, little eggs from each of her undiscoverableness drop against the floor of Herself. Something comprehensible, like the seas and the beasts beneath. A little flowered her with a shell sprung out of one, missing an eye, for she still represented One and All Sight: petaled tail, two true-leaves replaced two fins at the bottom of the tail; green sight colored her film. And when this green-flowered splashed against the floor of Herself, a twin released from the smolder, he swam tall within Her sea-vibrations: wet fibres slick to the dreamed-face, body sinewy and constitutes echoes of Her Holiness’ alien songs of creation, and prosody formed his tail. More pairs from her saliva-pearls, and more from her sweat-beads: and more as close to Her poured from the lush nectar from Her Mountain’s ******: to embody this liquid. From the waters born Nilnrina: sprightly, shy: quietly, fly: harpened.

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