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White Elaine's Last Song

December 16 2009 by Rubén Pesquera Roa in MyBlog

Not to drink that kind nectar from your lips
neither breathe from your breath eternal life
nor to sleep in your arms another night
It's to die, not to be, have never been...

To watch your sweet tongue plunging bold, in fire
at the Queen's mouth request in those your dreams
That she...

Midnight Hour

December 14 2009 by William Burkholder in MyBlog

Dusk is gone and the midnight hour beckons,

When the flowers sleep, and the night's dew does its dance.

Where the willow hangs her tired head

And sleeps under twinklings of twilight dreaming.

When the nightingale

Serenades the moon cast meadows,

That place of evening's repose.

When...

Grain of Sand

December 14 2009 by William Burkholder in MyBlog

From a grain of sand to a high mountain range

And the journey from ocean to sky...

Thus the path of the poet,

To write and reason why.

In a Snap (free write)

December 14 2009 by William Burkholder in MyBlog

In a snap, saddle flap, trap clap, leather chafing boot-skin heels
Onion peels and yellow tears, dust born woe and forbidden taboos
Sing along and Bon Bon fire bimbos wailing loud. Like pasted on makeup, and circus show clowns in towns of desperate solitude's embraces.

Windblown...