Five poems - Mad Swirl

Published 2005? 2006?
Mad Swirl

Five poems - Mad Swirl

Five poems
by Alison Ross

shadows of god

suns scream
a swirl of chants
clouds sigh
a halo of prayers
moons shed tears
of quiet karmas

raindrops bleed
the ghost of god


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Horrific harmonies
and terrific cacaphonies
share a room in
the Hotel of Symphonies
and make love on the bed of epiphanies,
then share a cigarette of regret.
So now the cacaphonies sing melodies
of tragic beauty
while the harmonies screech tragedies
in discordant euphony

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like big question marks of defiance
like exclamation points of smoke
like the debris of exploded commas
like hollow periods

are we

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I gave birth to the shadow
that burned in your breast
like a dark sun

I invented the echo
that strangled your voice
like a blind song

I destroyed the mirror
that stole your eyes
like a burning ghost

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The sea is on fire.
The night is bone-white
and you sing like a cemetery,
your voice stained with dirt and death.

The flames have thawed.
The day is blood-red
and you pray like a piano,
your chants filled with dreams of death.