Alchemical Delights
By The Walrus
A collection of arcane verse
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Apocalips
Those incongruously red hills and valleys hide a lovely yet disturbing secret.
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Again
Don't worry, love, I won't bite you. Not too hard, anyway.
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Aghast
I come to you and you freeze, bitter and poised like a praying mantis plotting all possible futures on the tawdry graph of life.
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Alchemical Reverie
And now, in the milky cloud of his worship for you and only you I sense a luminescence seldom seen, a delicacy rarely tasted and almost never known completely.
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All The Sixes, Six Six Six
It is good to be a satyr and a Saxon, a scholar and a sentimental fool in the same jumbled package, I think.
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Atavistic Resurgence
His face
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Belladonna
I had an inkling that I would find you here at the bottom of the undulating cow pasture carpeted with magic mushrooms and destroying angels.
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Blood Rock
standing blood rocks proud with lintels of blue-grey Welsh slate
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Perfect Pandemonium
Just for you, here's a love song.
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The Drowning Pool
A poem about water spirits
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Oh, Oh What A Girl
nevertheless we chose that special time to mix our magical elixirs,
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Sparrow
The spring has sprung, and the huntress sets her wicked toothed traps
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Swansong
A sweet tale of love.
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Vessel
The fluids within your secret chambers vary from crystal clear to inky black, from amber to the dusty blue of your eyes.
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Words 2
Words clashed in his head, warmed him, hurt him or merely teased and made him smile, their multifaceted meanings lost on the wind or disbelieved.
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Diary?
When mortally wounded the anointed seek soil from within like vampires craving native earth.
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My Pretty
Look again. Look closer. No, silly, that's not nearly close enough.....
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Equine Dream
As the dawn was breaking I dreamed a dream of three sentient beings rustling in the straw of a shadowy stable.
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History
Mystery Babylon the great, mother of harlots and sundry abominations of the Earth. Is this a mystery to you?
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Valley Of The Kings
In the shade of this lost valley
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When I'm Gone
I long to hear the pitter-patter-fizz of acid rain eroding the dank roof my mausoleum.
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My Lady
My lady hides her precious face under the busiest thoroughfare, a conveniently frantic place where bustling humanity mostly fails to suspect her presence.
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The Candle
The tables are turning.....
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Under Trees
The dream was of words lost in woodland amongst fulsome, grinning fairytale trees.....
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