Breathes Death by Larry D. Jennings
Ra’s bright device, while waning much too fast to herald an approaching night, has passed its zenith. Cloaking all the world in ice while waning much too fast. Ra’s bright device breathes death.
Catastrophe’s chill tongue… Flame dead beneath its skin; a cancerous and blackened sheath, is merely sign the fateful bells have rung. Flame dead beneath catastrophe’s chill tongue, breathes death
with stellar groan; proclaims an end to light. As shadows dance through days once clear and bright, the distant stars observe. What once had shone proclaims an end to light with stellar groan; breathes death.
No one replied as mournful prayers were said imploring pity. Naught was overhead but Stygian abyss; mouth gaping wide as mournful prayers were said. No one replied! Breathes Death,
“Hear now that solar sigh. Entropy’s rest has stolen time!” No succor from the breast which gave you life. All sightless stars must eye entropy’s rest. “Hear now! That solar sigh breathes death.”
Among the heaven’s height, a tiny branch means nothing. A galactic avalanche renews itself within black void each night. A tiny branch among the heaven’s height breathes death.
Hot air, wind from the stars, speeds heavenward. Zeta-Reticuli, no Saint... Bernard propels itself to meet Sol’s final prayer. Wind from the stars speeds heavenward. Hot air breathes death.
Ra’s bright device, like Isis’ faithful hound emerging from its underworld, was found to mark the solstice’s warmth. Shining like ice, like Isis’ faithful hound, Ra’s bright device breathes death.
Once molten star, Sol turned a sullen gray and sightless orb toward a place where lay its children’s frozen ashes. From afar, Sol turned a sullen gray. Once molten star breathes death.
Bewitched by Sylvia Maclagan
Summer air quivers. A butterfly unfurls its wings on my bare chest. I hunger for you. Picking blades of grass beside a river where I come to rest, desire arouses me to dazzling bliss. I lick ripples from your breasts, my body surfing unimagined heights from our together nights.
Hummingbirds flirt with flowers. I feel the radiance of your kiss under silken bowers, intoxicated with jasmines’ fragrance.
When night falls, will I have forgotten your love call among those whistling reeds, vibrations of infinite chords? I know moonlit willow-trees will tempt me to tarry awhile. I’ll succumb to sensual smiles in that glade beyond, where nymphs mirror their flesh on surfaces of serene ponds.
Yet April fled.... Cool May moon! I grow old. I might lose my way among the sumptuous shapes of night. The essence of my life may be a dream. I’ll stoop like a cypress weighted with snow, scorned by moonbeams on mountain peaks.
No! I’ll sip only from your fountain: one day it will whirl me to the ocean. I’ll make love to you with fevered heart, engage the teasing motion of your thighs, your impulsive lips.
Yet now, until Morning Star departs, I’ll bask on the banks of alluring creeks.
Note: Seasons of Southern Hemisphere.
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