Hanging (Tidal)
Key of diamonds, tempest
No stouter than the last,
bold glass of brawny ale,
porter to the pale
Time-piece
Day of crashing breakers,
Jewelled licence, tartan
blue dusky-purple plaid heather, crispy mauve thistle
Shipwreck plumage
Time-piece
Burst upon the finger
Crest of temptation
Jealousy's ration
(Some or other passion)
Decline of this nation
Crowned by the commoners
Portent of paradise, failing
Crowned by the royal
Parsimonious template of action
Time-piece
Blown by laboured reason
drowned and hung to dry, limply flapping in the wind
Sneered upon by fate's wicked grin,
These fragments have I shored against my ruin
Temptation's noose bites
As the flesh dies, whining.
Throat of harpoon, lambent flakes
of dessicated epidermis crumple like paper
Torn from books of fate
Time-piece
Pantheistic epilogue
Intoned by a wilful shaman
Guileful woman
whose tears descends from cheeks split by husband's hands
Time-piece
| Contributors: | P, Roland, Stacy Alexander, Stacy, Lucretia, A girl named Sue, K. D. Johnson, Nabarun Halder, K.D. Johnson, Bop, Zsa. |
| Poem finished: | 2nd February 1997. |