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Diamond in the Rough

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Just posting a short, violent cut from circa 2015 to get into the spirit of the season. I haven't written anything new in months.

 

 

 

 

Slithered invitation
with diamond-cut
vendettas.

Sellswords carved
         carnival sideshow
    smiles

darting buttress
eyes commence
a lust for                                   fire
sang the bird:

conjecture cockfights
a finer company~
requisite quisling
dangles headfirst~

boiling leather
weathers
a tomb of
elbow room.

Laugh & dream
of head & hole.

Billed hourly
in barb wire
      peckerwood,

a red fist beseeching
a black tongue ballast.

Heavy machines
groan & crimp.

 

Overdone
under-boss
corking brain.

Erstwhile dreams
        eye dirt & blade
   through justified pain…

slithering treacherous,
a diamond-cut
vendetta.

 
 
 
 
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    3 COMMENTS

    1. Hello, poet

      The jaggedness of this cuts deep. The format works well and your wordplay is outstanding.
      It’s the season for darkness so I can see why you brought this out, but this kind of pain knows no season.

    2. Well now, Benjamin 🍷

      Here, in this gobsmacking piece, is the exact point of issue I was making when you mentioned being “an undisciplined Free Verse poet” … there’s nothing about this poem but an excellent use of skillful poetic devices to command the reader to halt, proceed, imagine, and “feel” every moment, twist, turn, and diversion into your wondrously rendered world of abstract, mind-bending ambiguation, and I say this while sitting here bulge-eyed and jaw-dropped, not only from your phantasmagorical diction of verbosity, but how you’ve used white-space to create mood and imagery, while capturing and holding your readers’ spellbound attention.

      Sheesh, M’Friend, it’ll take awhile to shake this one from my consciousness!
      Good, really GOOD stuff, Syr Poet! Thanks for the rare experience! ⁓ Richard🖌

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