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  July 2023     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 6 total

Her No. 5

Smooth curved and half-naked,
plump tits bared,
jungle hair loose,
she stood at the piano.

She was the electricity in the room.
It crackled in her inhalation,
trapped in her held breath.
In her exhalation was the promise of the storm. ...

– by Marshall K. McGregor

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PETITION FROM PURGATORY

My last winter is soon to come
and the kids are already on fire

As I look back at their burning ashes
rising in the human smoke
like theocentric fireflies
flickering in the night
I ask why I am contented to merely sip
my tear-flavored tea
...

– by Marshall K. McGregor

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Revenant

Scrape, scrape goes the night
Waking me from a dream
To greet a nightmare

A ragged, hungry breath
Shambling in the shadows
Enfolding me
Keeping me still
With undiscovered terror
At what lies lamenting
In this living abyss

Pure fear...

– by Marshall K. McGregor

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SWALLOW

Kiss her lips electric
Speak in hidden tongues
Part her secret flesh

Enmesh
And sink
Deeper

Deeper than her skin
Into her succulent heart, tear
Upon her lovely mind, dine
On her sweet marrow, sip

Hear the thrum of music
Pounding on...

– by Marshall K.

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Frog

I am killing a man
you don't know.
So please,
let me explain.

I am prying his fingers
from the railing
of a bridge
just to watch him
fall.

Want to know
what it's like?

I'll tell you anyway.

It is akin
to aiming for the frogs
...

– by Marshall K. McGregor

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Darkly evocative and memorable. The use of apocalyptic language made the reader a witness to the imagery, and an accomplice it, and the moral threaded throughout resonated. Even after I was finished reading, it lingered in my mind. Well done, and well-deserved. 

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For the evocative use of language, the undercurrent of feminism experienced through a marginalized religion and culture, and for the subtext. The poem lingered in my thoughts after I read it. It resonated.

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What I enjoyed most about this poem is its musical defiance. The use of language, the flow of the rhyme scheme, and the narrative voice of the female defying her persecutors. It has a raw quality, and it sticks to the reader's psyche. 

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Between the alliteration and the vivid wordplay, this poem captured the energy of an artist creating something with passion and verve but by painting with words.

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The opening lines captured my attention. And the sussurance of the repeated "in the pale brightness" was both beautiful and ominous. It just kept me reading and resonated with me.

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Evocative, raw, and vivid.

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