Vixility's Poems

Here's the list of poems submitted by Vixility  —  There are currently 34 poems total — keep up the great work!

The Witch of Aberdeen

She lived outside of Aberdeen
Where Scotland woods stood glum and gray
Above a cavern in between
The rising moon and setting day.
Her laughter seemed to plague the night—

    That is, as some would say;
And oft, through yonder...

by John W. May

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On Beauty Untamed

“Poetry must have something in it that is
barbaric, vast and wild.” –Denis Diderot


The Falcon

In lovely light and lofty pose,
   It perched an autumn limb.
Rebalancing, a wing arose
   Revealing something grim ...

Though...

by John W. May

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On Dreaming

I often wonder with a grin
What imagery my dreams might show:
I blanket deep, pull covers in,
And ponder how my dreams will go ...

For in the haunt of last night's tale
A dreadful cavern opened wide,
And in a frenzy dogs of hell
Were...

by John W. May

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The Sculptor

With joy he set upon the stone
Releasing from its marble tomb
The likeness of a lovely maid
Whose grandeur filled the humble room.
What hapless rock this used to be,
Half-figured now, she seemed a god:
The more his chisel carved her shape,
...

by John W. May

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Candy Land

The swing that breaks the hanging bag
Sends candy bouncing all around:
The children rush, and pushing fuss,
And knock each other to the ground.
No thoughts of others—only self—
Where skewed desires all abound:
They rush and push and even kick...

by John W. May

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The Huguenot

"Love knows not its own depth until the hour
of separation." –Khalil Gibran


The orange moon ascends beyond the leaves
Like a child's balloon—upward it looms
Against nebulous night; upward it heaves
Its ancient amber light until it...

by John W. May

 126 Views
added 9 months ago
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State of Nature

"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself."
–D.H. Lawrence


Within some grassland's patchy heath
Of emerald and of springtime sedge,
Where wild grasses grow beneath
A bulging, sloping burrow's edge,—
A prairie dog is grazing free,
...

by John W. May

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added 10 months ago
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A Mystic to a Poet

The Lilies

“What marvelous symbols there be
Of heaven and its Highest Jewel—
A living ode to God’s own rule
Inscribed on everything we see!
For Nature is a shadow cast:
A cloak, a shroud, a second light,—
A medium for inner sight,
...

by John W. May

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When Sadness Has My Soul Distraught

When sadness has my soul distraught
And twists my weary, weary bones,
And owns my bright blue days with gray

  And manifests with moans:

I will not shrink, nor I repine,
Beneath the anguish running deep;
Nor sleep will I through all the...

by John W. May

 327 Views
added 2 months ago
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Dear Grandma

Dear grandma,

I could see you were just as stunned as I
When drifting its Body traversed our sky:
Noiseless, Black, Slow, it moved right overhead
Without a rumble, a wave, or goodbye.

It surprised me, too, that you showed no dread
As it...

by John W. May

 66 Views
added 3 months ago
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Colorado Sonnet

Colorado

The lark bunting trills with lovely refrain
In these soon-to-be, snow-laced, timbered hills.
I? I stroll with wonder through the terrain,
Enraptured with feelings a mystic feels.

My home, my heart from my earliest days,
...

by John W. May

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added 4 months ago
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The Harvesting

I slipped into a fatal sleep,
Alone the other day,

And waking found that I was reaped,
Like wheat that sickles slay …

The new realm was a threshing floor
That drew out inner grain—

My inner self, my inner core,
The ‘me’ that would...

by John W. May

 355 Views
added 5 months ago
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Emerson Park

There’s snow there now where once she lay
   Alone that Autumn eve,
And though that day seems far away,
   I still lamenting grieve …

For she—a daughter, mother, friend—
   She pined, I’m sure, in grief:
For...

by John W. May

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Sleep

A thousand angels watched him sleep,
His slumbers, oh, so ever deep ...
And she, with gazing eyes as they,
Approaching softly where he lay,
Did ever silent keep.

She touched his cold and pallid clay,
And wiped her weary tears away:
And as...

by John W. May

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added 6 months ago
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Birth

I.

I knew, before my birth to be,
   The planet that I chose,
But angels who were prepping me
   Induced a gentle doze:
They brought Amnesia's velvet soup
   And I, with willing heart,
Drank down the broth...

by John W. May

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added 7 months ago
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Slaying Dragons

Blood
Deep red
Rims a blade
Glinting silver.
"Is that the last of them", he echoes out.
His friend, peering down the cavern, shows doubt:
"I don't think so."
Both move in,
Cautious,
...

by John W. May

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added 7 months ago
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The Maple

When times of desperation greet me
With tempest and with livid storm,
And violent winds wish to defeat me,
And swallow me within their swarm ...

I will remember where I'm rooted,
And there with courage will abide;
And though the winds my...

by John W. May

 382 Views
added 8 months ago
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Narcissus

There came to view a gleaming lake
Which beckoned him to take a drink,
But beauty seized the thirsty lad
As there he bent above its brink ...

A stunning sight appeared to him
Who marveled at its dear design—
Behold! a face beheld him back,
...

by John W. May

 110 Views
added 8 months ago
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Fairmount

How calm the sound of snow that's falling
   Soft upon these lonely stones—
As if the north winds now were calling
   Sleeping ghosts from restless bones.

Some think this yard of graves as eerie,
   Filled with silence and with woes:
Where...

by John W. May

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added 8 months ago
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Nefertiti

Beneath the skies of goddess Nuit
There lies my passion's sole pursuit—
It's her, whose soul is beauty's claim,
A Nubian of Pharaoh's name:

Beauteous Nefertiti, hail!
Arise, my love, leave crook and flail,
And let us from this palace flee,
...

by John W. May

 347 Views
added 8 months ago
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The Red Sea

Come down and explore the azure realm
     Where blue-cheeked butterfly fish glide in twos—
Where valleys of fire corals abound
     In shimmering, reticulated blues.

Come down and see the meandering
     Moray sleek her length through a...

by John W. May

 84 Views
added 10 months ago
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To a Vernal Equinox

They mingle on the naked maples—
   Sparse, the yellow leaves;
And soon their plight will be our fables
   Told on winter eves.

The crimson hearth, aflame and glowing,
   Soothes us with delight;
And soon we come to love the snowing,
   And...

by John W. May

 75 Views
added 1 year ago
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The Sons of the East

They knew from Arabia's Golden past,
From fragments and scrolls that they had amassed,
That a sign, that a star would soon appear
     And testify that a king is here.

"Let us gather gold, frankincense, and myrrh,
And travel...

by John W. May

 51 Views
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Ballad of a Buddhist Boy

The Buddha is my guide, my sage;
   He shows me lasting joy.
He teaches me, despite my age,
   To be a humble boy.

I practice every Noble Truth,
   And meditate and pray.
I learn from other Buddhist youth
   The best and righteous way.

...

by John W. May

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Monarch

These lift me through the airy height
(These wings acquired through a night),
Into a foreign world above
Of light and warmth and truth and love.

What seems a dream are days gone by
When I knew nothing of the sky—
Just toil on an earthly bed...

by John W. May

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Thales

Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat, caeli scrutantur plagas
–Cicero


... and he was fixed on Pleiades
   Who moved across the tranquil night:
Her glinting gown, though hard to see,
   Had brought him to her precious sight.

He plotted,...

by John W. May

 29 Views
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Those Evil Few

With wealth, the likes of Helen's Troy,
There are these few that think they're coy—
They seem so modest, but I warn,
Their modesty is but a ploy.

They hung two 'thieves' the other morn.
In fact, the day my son was born.
Their crime? Some...

by John W. May

 71 Views
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Dream-State

It's late and dark. The TV flickers white
Ghostly lights, and my darling is asleep.

What dream, what world is she caught in so deep
That her slumbers would twitch her frame tonight?
What haunting image puts her peace to flight—
What goblin...

by John W. May

 33 Views
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The Wheat Fields

Lo, the drowsy heat of summer
Hanging humid, low and near,
As peasants gleaning frail and humble
Thank the Lord whom they revere.

Lo, the wheat-line yon receding
Into gray obscurity—
How thankless greed absconds with nature
And her virgin...

by John W. May

 25 Views
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Out from Concord

"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." –Thoreau

Walden Pond is...

by John W. May

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A Dawning of Dying

In my youth, I saw a bird's ravished body
Lying in the silence of a furrow.
Its auburn feathers were wilted and shoddy,
And ants stripped its flesh and belly thorough.

Strange, so strange imagining this bird to be—
To have once ascended the...

by John W. May

 39 Views
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The Trenches

They held with horrid hell their lines
'Til shells dispelled their noxious fumes,
Then through the labyrinth there fell
A myriad to Earth's grey womb.

A thousand summers 'ere that day
Those fruitful fields were green and bloom—
What once...

by John W. May

 19 Views
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Southern Outpost ... Lachish, Israel, 587 BCE

Omniscient eyes upon us seem leering
Out from a darkness that dreadfully grows—
A deluge of darkness, dreadless, fearless,
Swallowing all as it easily goes.
This darkness fills the empyreal heights,
Its quietude the Negev's lonely plains.
...

by John W. May

 135 Views
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Flower of Punjab

The orange moon ascends beyond the leaves
Like a child's balloon: upward it looms
Against nebulous night, upward it heaves
Its ancient amber light until it blooms
Like a lotus in the vacuous sky ...

There, alone below the moon's tender glow,
...

by John W. May

 391 Views
added 1 year ago
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