Tag Archives: syllables

PoeTree 

Posted on November 26, 2022 by whimsygizmo

Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts.– Edgar Allan Poe  :: We’ve got this hunger, see? These walls around our chambered souls, these syllables overflowing.  Our veins are … Continue reading →

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i am

Posted on April 1, 2021 by whimsygizmo

bic, some rhythm’d pen -sive soul etching cloudwords to ivory sky.  landlocked mermaid, dry scales thirsting for ocean, ink.  thinking; thanking. drinking in the rum-bled scribbled scrambled  song of some language i no longer speak. i am tossing letters (spaces)  to the breeze and hoping some bright bird catches them … Continue reading →

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Orion’s Wheel

Posted on June 18, 2017 by whimsygizmo

…. We steal celestial moments, thread our words through belt loops touched only by gods light years away. We call names. Fall apart. Whistle and wait for the echo of our own syllables. The stars are pin-prick cat prints on … Continue reading →

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Spell, Bound

Posted on February 28, 2016 by whimsygizmo

Come, sit a spell in the citadel and help me coral (core all) my syll- a -bulls. Dey got sharp horns (and harps, shorn) and dey songs is harm, Mon -(s)izing up all this strange. You got a pair, a … Continue reading →

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she’s feeling howlish

Posted on February 1, 2016 by whimsygizmo

.. drunk on gin (-sberg) and a good standing dose of Saat -chi,tea. . list -en, you can hear her syllables beg ……-in.   ..

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What Say Ye?

Posted on January 24, 2016 by whimsygizmo

We entertain the mad. They whisper. – from “Tea Ceremony” by G.C. Waldrep .. Drink me …….(shrink me) down to nothing -ness, the best guess bliss of stirred honey, quiet leaves left.   Think me ……(blink me) sane, in small stages … Continue reading →

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{everyday} mischief managed

Posted on May 29, 2015 by whimsygizmo

  written for dVerse.  

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Measures

Posted on May 12, 2015 by whimsygizmo

.. Ohhhh. What does that pay? the people sometimes say when I tell them I’m a poet. I wish I could show them my extensive hyphen collection, or a thousand and one ways to de -scribe the sky, but usually … Continue reading →

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