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The Tempest's Core - a double etheree poem. #PoetryCommunity #Poetry #QueerArt

hands shake and slip as the strand that tethers her bruised heart to the Tempest's core finally snaps and her reality shatters into a torrent of glimmering hopes now revealed as lies the spell disintegrates and she tumbles spiraling out of control and in her decent through the chaos she finally catches her breath she's free-falling into a new world where she does not have to bend to…

I cannot imagine a world without your inescapable, reckless charm. Without a doubt, my finest hour was all about you and being part of your life; a dangerous secret — knowing all too well that we existed only in my mind. If only “we” could have had a chance before you fell in love with her and without me. Until forever, my heart is yours. I hold you close each night in my sweetest…

Moondance…

Bars In place Imagined Invisible Freedom’s flight constrained Bitter necessity Becoming the prison cell Lives lost, grief overlooked, tears fall, The infection of fear continued By the continued infection of fear I sit behind a frozen window pane Glass holding me apart from the world Its sounds and smells too sanitised Immersive experience Subtracted from being Starlight is calling I…

Moondance…

Bars In place Imagined Invisible Freedom’s flight constrained Bitter necessity Becoming the prison cell Lives lost, grief overlooked, tears fall, The infection of fear continued By the continued infection of fear I sit behind a frozen window pane Glass holding me apart from the world Its sounds and smells too sanitised Immersive experience Subtracted from being Starlight is calling I…

To leave no place for regret in a life Save only mistakes from which to learn Letting error serve good purpose Redeeming remorse for hurt Carelessly committed Youthful folly wakes To see itself Mirrored eyes Reflect Pain Joy Growing Unfolding Other choices From a deeper well Embracing each moment A gift of living presence Harmony of body and soul Accepting human imperfections Part of the…

False Premise Play or prey A simple choice By corporate rules Predator or victim Conflict and separation With the single stroke of a pen In pursuit of imagined success Machiavellian machinations The route to riches is not paved with gold Fool’s golden glow of dangled carrots Luring donkeys ever onwards Towards a goal out of reach Beauty dies unnoticed Kindness forgotten Inner light dimmed Life’s…

Visions…

Mist Veiling Unveiling Unravelling Chimera conjured Memories awoken Visions of a past revealed Domain of fractured images Dreams bedevil rationality Logic dismisses imagination Dreamers enchanted by arcane shadows Freed from the tether of gravity Wander otherworldly pathways Embracing experience Minds open to wonder Encounter dragons Bathe in their breath Know themselves Unveiled Mist