Friday, 7 June 2019

Friday Night Poetry Slam

Week Twenty-Three

Dead Birds.

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Dead birds, black magic and blood money

The bloody witness, voodoo shit, I end journeys

Injuries sustained overland the quest perilous

Innocence be damned, the grail rests in the Americas

I get my bounty of life, counting the moments

No counterfeits, counterpoints, or opponents

This is atonement, for long years of sleep and meditation

Dead birds, black clouds, and incantation

In Temptation like I Wish It Would Rain

Fishing for a vein, efficient, the needle or fang

3 wishes, I'm wishing for more and wanting nothing

Vain words and vainglory my main glutton

Just a little flame, I need it at night, reading and writing

Rain under a pale moon, hail, thunder and lightning

Whalessong to leviathans floods of my forefathers

Colors run together with blood into dark waters

Amethyst for clarity, tantalus to niacin

Braille under a thick veil of cannabis and vicodin

Lovesick: the jailbird sings for sev’ral reasons

Seven seals principally snapped for a killing season

We still in Eden, eatin’ the fruit of decisions

Suited up figs to the flaws, burners to opposition

Pigs in the polity, apocalypse is imminent

Apotheosis tripartite PALADIN BENJAMIN
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Submitted June 08, 2019 at 03:20AM by PaladinBen http://bit.ly/2Zjp2gJ

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