venusianjade

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'I burn'd, and ached for wings'

  November 2024     21 days ago

Submitted Poems 6 total

a god in ruins

You are the hymn
sung after the world ends,
a melody sharpened by the weight of ruin.
A king whose crown is forged from ash,
whose throne is
the bones of dying stars.

Your hands,
calloused from war,
shape words as if they were weapons,
...

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Becoming

Life, a fleeting shortcut
carved in the fabric of matter,
a sly betrayal of stillness.
It leaps,
like electric arcs splitting the silence,
hungry, reckless,
seeking the path of least resistance.


We are sparks in the storm,
blades...

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Invoking

Her body is a sanctuary,
a cathedral carved from moonlight and sin.
Each breath she takes
echoes like hymns in the hollows of her ribs,
a prayer that trembles
against the gilded altar of her soul.



She is the keeper of the sacred flame,
...

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susurrus seed, the unfolding vine

To step beyond oneself
is to dissolve into the ether,
to untether the spirit
from the cage of the ribs
and wander the expanse of meaning—
a meaning rooted in the delicate balance
of binding and severing.

The whispering seed,
its fragile...

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Lingering

You are the dusk that lingers,
soft and golden, spilling over the horizon,
pulling me into a world
where time forgets itself.
Your hands trace constellations on my skin,
mapping out galaxies
only we have touched,
fingertips grazing like...

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