by Rafael Domingues

Created on: January 15, 2007   Last Updated: November 15, 2008

Poetic Prowess

Fine times fly by fierce rhymes entwined in this mind

Talented tatters of textured tourniquets falling from old wounds

Playing parallel pictures off mirrored images of self

Managing to manipulate months and moons across memory

Time flows the fine flawless flow of timelessness adrift

Painted words vex verily the voracious and virtuous alike

Sounds soothing soft sorrows seldom selling themselves short

This poetic license liberating latent language forming luscious lyrics

Listing listlessly the liberties of life, laughter, and love

I jot my jogging thoughts just so, impaled on jaded concepts

Writing writhing, wilting emotions emanating from righteous words

Lustfully longing for a lavish release from these ludicrous letters

Tainted tellers trying to truncate truths in tight knots for tantric rebirth

As "all's well" flows from ink wells out of bottomless pits in endless hells

Try as you might to best the mighty, you must maintain this mountain's size

For to scale such heights as these I do defy is but a trickle to this river that is I

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