Phil de Lange

And so I watched
in awe
-submerged under the moon's omnipotent sea-
An outstretched fiend
...

In the darkest hollow where
echo giants live,
a Lonely Cricket screams cowardly
in cold boots
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At only the rain's end
will I breathe my own
sweet silence
...

I planted a seed of false belief
to watch it grow;
(the slightest sting)
under six feet of libel smiles
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I lay praying for divine stars
to exorcise these troubles,
haunting that seventh swing of
happiness;
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We told stories,
with salty eyes
of frail folk sleeping awake
in times illusion
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Let us live with the clouds,
dreamy like white lilies
in a sky blue lake
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We cry;
like heavens wispy blanket
Our tears fall like
the stars
...

Watch as the sky, so
ominous and bright
Thrust open its wings,
on shattered doorsteps!
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emerald eyes glowed just enough to wake intrigue,
centered in the icy asphalt
it stood on the hunchback mountain
...

My heart pounds like a drum:
perpetually bleeding, feeding, needing
a smile of anxious wisdom
...

It was a day of sunset - raining emerald life
on the watery sky
Avian spirits
swam through the air,
...

Far too long have I slept with Two Pillows

For who?
For what
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As he sits
deceptively in his comfort,
I watch reflections in a broken mirror
of the seventh year
...

If I consider the riddles
of my mind
When I plunder
with brothers in arms;
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They cut you open to watch you bleed
with knives and ridicule-
they cut
They slash your pride, hungry for joy
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We fell
an innocent seed on pure hear
We grew
fed by the hopeful, foolish offerings
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I see the flash of pain
tear through your dark divine
Blackened eyes gleam
in a fit of panic
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My spirit is my own...
My spirit and body;
one creation
one being
...

Born into conviction –
a frail soul is formed in judgment
of a thousand tongues
Deaf and dumb –
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