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I am trying to sleep, and the ravens outside are crowing riddles only the dead can fathom.
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sciamachy

 all heaven abloom

adorns the naked cobalt moon

asleep on branches crystalline

reticulate

receding ghosts of afterimage

following the flash

startled bird

don't lose your voice just yet

identity dislimned in a haze of saffron dust

a dust that hangs these cloistered hours

of anamnesis ephemeral enshrined

and loft away some distant herald

a gaunt and death-majestic tree

an altarpiece enveloped in a fugue of red

we dare to vanquish 

some brightly imagined ophidian fiend

whose vatic feathers cindered carbon-black

and looming large

unfurl behind our every dread

Challenge
Haiku is a style of poem which originated in Japan that consists of 3 lines in 5-7-5 syllable format. Challenge: write a haiku about anything. The top entries will be published along with the Japanese translation in an exclusive Prose: Haiku Edition for Kindle on Amazon.
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espiral

matryoshka girl

I watch your secrets uncloak

shell by shell by shell

Challenge
Invent your own myth about the creation of everything.
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ex nihilo

a minute’s eons pass

in wanting hours . . .

expectant for such heavenly slips . . .

to slowly bring at last . . . your slightly parted lips . . .

to nothing . . . save a silent trembling

Challenge
Poetry contest. Twenty word minimum. First place will be decided based on the poem, of course, though the number of comments posted by others will be factored in (critiques or praise, no one word or three word quickies) and those who comment should "like" it to keep the judges looking for updated reads. Write a poem about anything. Aim for the gut. Winner gets $100.
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feu doux

take this flawed and leaky patchwork vermillion thing,

a parcel of threadbare hopes, of weary-laden dreams,

barely stitched with remnants of felicity’s string -

and evanesce it anyhow through the furnace of your fervent love.

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empyrean

writhing           wild        wide

grey wraiths of cloud

exiled from heaven

estranged from earth

mute shreds of liquid light

beckoning our souls

between the veil

beyond the fruit of Tantalus.

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transmutation

by some strange ritual of unwrit alchemy we drank -

that pungent - heavy - vintage dark -

of claret rivulets by violence bled - released -

from sorrow’s swollen vast impaled heart -

an aching vessel heaving fierce - perpetual - behind the ribs -

of that itinerant sorcerer from Nazareth -

and by that token - taken - broken - given -

we shared a table - with all the myriad blazing archangels

amidst their ageless flight.

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marooned

smoke encircles fire - engulfed by outer darkness -

coffined in a black egg - I tremble as I pray -

Love . . . pull me across this terror

Challenge
A poem about love
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elemental

impassioned devotion

whispered in sighs

deep enough

to drown

the moon

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evensong

our floating temple

ensconced in moonlight

beneath the votive stars

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