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Vertigo 

Swaying shadows engulf us
In their macabre dance.
Taste my dripping lament,
Feel my taunting silhouette
As we feed off their torment.
Can you sense their silent scrutiny?
Immersed in tacit infatuation
We surrender to sweet intoxication.
You reek of tainted purity
As you inhale my melancholy
And quiver...
Guilty pleasure
Submerges us
As we spiral down
The pit of sweet misery.

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Snow Queen    Haiku

Here comes the Snow Queen...
Fragmented gaze, icy lips,
Crystalline mantle.

Here flies the Snow Queen...
Silver, silken hair over
Frozen shades of blue.

Here lives the Snow Queen...
Silence in a secluded,
Petrified tower.

Here lies the Snow Queen...
A fleeting embrace
With emerald dust.

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Pitiful    I can see through you

Spiteful
Pitiful
You are

Conditioned
Commissioned
You seem

Envious
Devious
You stare

Venomous
Calumnious
You spit

Disenchanted
Disillusioned
You act

Predictable
Preventable
You hide

You sink.

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Twilight    Celtic-inspired analogy

Standing on a secluded promontory
I embrace the ether;
Starry-eyed.

The heavens pour their flames
Into my breathless essence;
Intoxicated.

Archaic kaleidoscope visions
Turn my tears into amethyst drops;
Elated.

Vaporous silhouettes of the In-between
Scatter their wispy, rosy remnants;
Languid.

A blackbird soars toward
The silent, pallid veil;
Rescinded.

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Whirlwind

We've been trailing each other
Over the derailing centuries,
Laden with yearning,
Swooning over the magnitude of passion.
Once again we meet in seclusion
We need no sign of recognition;
Desire paints itself a way across our souls.
Your eyes devour me
For a tormenting eternity
Dwindling my consciousness
Absorbing my sanity
Before we breathe each other in.
Your dark curls cascade over me,
Engulfing my trembling skin
Penetrating my dilated veins
Draining my tarnished blood
And turning it into myriad red roses.
Your raspy touch disrupts
My numb tranquility
And your ruthless breath extracts
My once rigid heart.
A fiery balm for my chapped lips...
Your callous fingers enslave me
Etching me, shaping me
Your words fracture my resistance
Tempting me
Into the whirlwind of our embrace.
From you I expect no mercy,
No gentleness, no grace
Only an irrevocable cycle
Of bittersweet possession and exile.

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Déjà-vu

Why have you returned?
We were oceans apart until we slipped back to our tumbling raft.  And you say it feels as though you have never left. As if we could revert back to what we were.
Your eyes are a double-edged promise. A déjà-vu of decayed petals and relentless echoes of laughter and sorrow.
You still see me through your indulgent glass, but I'm not the gawky ingénue you once knew.
What do you want from me?
I have my anguished heart locked up inside a solid carapace. Our entangled breaths lie quiescent in the abyss of what was once our love.
Do not ask me to wait for you, Fate might unite us again, but until then we ought to be true to our dreams.
You'll be gone again soon, but these two hollows of mine will not shed tears. Your name is committed to memory, _inevitably_ but I’ve already forgotten your face.

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Summer Awakening

Take my hand, friend, and emerge from your crypt; the summer sun will only dry off your tears.
Let us stand under the jacaranda for a few instants: the she-tree will engulf you in her quiescent, sapphire shade.
It is a bright day, but we remember the flimsy scent of lotuses in the rain.
A butterfly flutters in the stillness of your sorrow, sprinkling kaleidoscope dust onto your indolent eyes.
Eternity
surrounds us
in a silken haze,
then...
The frail twilight breeze whispers a promise to you...
Your imminent awakening.

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Warm Ride    Along came a biker

Fate has struck me with an alluring blow once again.
For you have steadily planted your seeds of exuberance. And you’ve invaded my palpitating veins. And you’ve dismantled the barriers of my mind, so that my mind can feel.
Sighs of contentment floating in incense-filled air....
With you time has no meaning, and painful memories are nothing but blurry, warped shadows in an indistinct background.
The winds and the stars and the sea are carved in our dreams as we go riding from dusk till dawn.
How can we know each other so well?

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Not A Lament

This is not a lament, only the acceptance of your absconding to a place far beyond my reach, when you left me inert in the haze of my blurry dreams, with the chilly echoes of loneliness reverberating in my carcass.

This is not disintegration, only my abrupt immersion in ice blue waters, as you slowly but resolutely dissipated behind the somber curtains of this masquerade.

I vacillated. I sank into the abyss of my mind and swallowed myself. Then I swayed in brutal lucidity, as the pouring sunrays pierced my eyes, penetrated my brain, and engulfed my soul.

Why is letting go the only path to serenity? And why is serenity so fleeting?

This is not bitterness, only the deafening smirk of Fate as it strikes its whimsical arrows once again.

And so I have found another you. Nay, it was you who have found another me.
Forgive my erratic aloofness, for I can’t help but wonder: will you, too, confine me in the midst of a maze?...But I am already within your alluring reach.

This is not new love, only the recognition of hope under the disguise of irrepressible desire.

This is not jadedness, only the quiet realization that the sea waves will always yearn for the shore, and that no one can embrace them everlastingly.

Birth.
Death.
Rebirth.

I am bound to no one, only to the persistent, fickle tides of Time.

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You are intricate and playful,
and I'm a demanding dreamer;
the end of us will be dreadful.

Desire is neglectful,
passion is a deceiver,
but the mind is forgetful.

Imprudence,
recklessness,
loneliness
of an ardent heart that would not yield,
though its scars are plentiful!

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Firefly

Is it the beginning or the end?
Stardust and reckless fireflies
Clouds of wine and purple sighs
The days grow longer
With every ocean wave
And you try to numb our names
But our tears keep flowing
With memories of crimson leaves
And you must not forget
The winds hiding in our hair
And the cries of our dreams
Behind our fretful eyes…

You know you are dying
When the moon screams louder than you
And you are too lethargic to bleed.

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Oh You

Oh you,
Wicked you,
Prowling in a veiled corner of my heart,
Drinking from the veins of my sorrow,
Disdaining the emptiness of tomorrow.

Oh you,
Beautiful you,
Imprisoning me
in your feline eyes,
Planting
Sweet poison
On my nostalgic skin.

I will always be
Swept away
On the wave of
You,
Even in low tide.

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Porcelain

Between inhaling and exhaling
There is the moment of you
The sky slowly fading
And the sun turning blue

A siren’s lament
A sigh, a regret

Your breath frozen inside
My porcelain eyes.

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Silent Cacophony

Oh the beautiful pain of the bright days of spring…
I wander in the everlasting shadowlands, far, far from the piercing sun. The cello is incessantly playing grave notes in my head.
I feel safe here, will you please leave me alone? If you are not the prince of my dreams, if you are not the one to make me whole, then be gone and bring your game to an end, for I need not ardent hands and blank eyes.
I gaze at the putrefied ashes of my forsaken innocence and wish, once again, for indifference. Yet oblivion always seems to elude me.
I was singing a song of despair and whispering someone else's name, and then you came to me with the eyes of hope. Why do you stare at me like that? I have swallowed my soul a long, long time ago. Yet you say you believe in me.
Your kiss is ambrosia but your skin tastes like familiar misery. You are a solitary, like me, but your touch is oh so soothing.
Breathe me. Taste me. Will you be repulsed to lick my scars? Have you the strength to mend my broken back? Have you the patience to guide my clumsy fingers? Have you enough gentleness to kiss my fearful eyes?
You embrace my cold body and the dying flame in my eyes starts to flicker again. And my pulse comes back to life. Slowly. Hesitantly.
The howling of the sea fades away, and I pray I find redemption in your arms. Sorrow and bliss are struggling inside of me.
Shall I immerse myself in you or wrap myself even tighter with the translucent veil of the In-Between?
Sweet dissonance, silent cacophony that is tearing my heart apart…

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New Year

We woke up to a new day...to a new year.
To the majestic sight of mountains covered with snow.
To the stillness of a picturesque village tickled by harmonious raindrops.
To diffident birdsongs intermittently disturbed by unsystematic church bells.
He covered my shoulders with a blanket and, submerged in quietude, we gazed dreamily into the heartwarming flames dancing up the chimney.
Precious ephemera...

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Champagne

Tonight I dance under the stars, and the thought of you tickles my senses like a glass of bubbly champagne.
I am entranced; I float between sugar lavender clouds and I have the bittersweet taste of you in my mouth.
Tonight I breathe magnolias and the dancing colors in my eyes sparkle like a bouquet of precious stones.
Your echoing laughter sends me higher and higher and higher…

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End

How can you fail to see that
            I’ve scratched my hands for you?
            Fallen to tiny pieces for you?
            Cried a million tears for you?
            Bled to death for you?

Do me a favor and carry me silently to my grave, for the stars are poisonous angel tears tonight.
You are the end of me, but I vow that I will soon be the end of you…

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Eternal Wait

I shriek at you from afar and the blank space in your eyes seems to get larger each day I spend alone on the desolate, bewildering path of shadows.
Your absent presence haunts my static nights and hauls off whatever sanity is left in me.
You look away as I drown into your abysmal, disquieting, lethargic silence, suppressed by my recurring delusions.
Can't you see I'm hanging in the wind?
You're the only one who makes sunrise worthwhile, with your shimmering tiger-eyes and your half-indulgent, half-sarcastic smile.
Leave me or lend me your wings to hinder my descent. But stop shunning me before I delight into agony again...
Never before have I fallen so deep into eternal wait...

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Last Kiss

With your glacial lips
You plant one last kiss
On my parched forehead;
Death's biting breath.

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Monochrome

Whenever the sea swallows the scarlet sun
And the skies and waves slowly overlap
In opaque, monochrome infinity,
Silence engulfs me whole
And obstructs all my senses.
And I stand there,
Barely breathing,
A brittle silhouette,
Faceless,
Nameless,
Because you do not see me.

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Bounty Hunter

I ride into town
I am hunting down
Yet another man;
Stop me if you can.

I have no name
But I know yours
I play a steady game
So let’s settle scores.

From Carson City to Los Rios
I’ve been tracking banditos;
Whether alive or dead
They have a price on their head.

In this part of the world
Death has more value than life.
Don’t you think it is absurd
To settle down with a wife?

Friends and family, I have none
Save for a cigarillo and a gun
For I am the rugged one
Who rides alone in the sun.

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Ablaze

Whenever day and night
Engage in a blazing duel
I still remember
Your footmarks
On crimson sands
And your muffled laughter
Beneath never-ending velvet skies.
A vision so pale
A sound so frail
That I can only wonder
If it is merely a dream
Or a trifling reverie
That will continually
Haunt me
Whenever I long
For what might have been.

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Bitter Liberation

This is an ode to silence.
The awkward, still moment that separates your inner pain from the first drop of ink.
The silly lullaby that suddenly stops playing in your head.
The glaring white flash that stings your eye when you admit your naivety.
The brutal bluish tint of your dune-shaped lips.
The thorny entangling of your hand lines.
The numbness in your ragged limbs.
And then your heartbeats slowly start to wane,
The second you realize
You’ve never had it all.
Illusion and deceit, intrigue and unfounded fears.
Is this the way you want me to see you now?

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Almost was...

It was a night of disbelief,
When joy was pure and brief.
A summer’s poisonous kiss
From the lips of a sinister thief.
Have I imagined the glow in your eyes?
Or was it my tear that washed it away?
I mourn the love that almost was…
And loathe the dream that died today.