Love from the northwest base of Mt Fuji

several poems ranging in quality

Love #23

silver spun fable
from antiquated tongues
has the young throwing stars at the sun-
elderly coughing dust
as punctuation

#24

woke wielding a sword
of starlight
slaughtered shadowfoes
now piled, cresting at the pillowtop mattress.
trudged through inkspill-
emerged from bedroom ragged
bageyed, realizing i was awakening
from a dream of your
hair.

#25

when ope`d-your hand became-
for me to lock `tween fingers,
i believed biometrics and anatomy
betrothed

when ope`d-your hand became-
for me to slip `tween fingers,
i believe any belief
ceased.

#26

in my eyes, see the cheers
children on a Ferris wheel

visit in a hundred years
when they insist to forget

my name was Chernobyl
and i`d even existed

#27

identity crisis
you are not Bonsai
but Sequoia
which blossoms
bird feathers

#28

may i be just dust
between your feathers(?)
so, sweet Cygnus,
when your departure arrives-
you might not notice
the fraction me
you carry.

#29

found god in   Myrtle(,)
blossoms reflecting   Sun

silver sliver   Shone
forgotten now,   Brilliant(,)
though they were,   Petals

borrowed to  Entertain-
you found   Some-
                             (you)
only closer to None.

#30

should i have known then
how edible you are,
summer squash hair
skin of sliced radish flesh
(less blushing then more like sweetened rhubarb in a saucer of cream)-
your fig-center-lips
to water chestnut toenails--

i would have never hungered for the best of earth
and known its worth to only be valued as your garnish.

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:: wow... i haven't read anything as spectacular in a long, long time... for me this is an allegory... an extended metaphor for why we better be grateful we're alive and get to love... the reference to the chernobyl disaster was particularly hard-hitting and moving...

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hard to say which I believe to be the most brilliant as all are quite amazing, unique but if I had to say I think I would have to say #28, though all are truly wonderful.