Annakya

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  December 2022     1 year ago

Submitted Poems 7 total

Maiden, Mother, Crone

The birth of the mother
Is the death of the maiden

A grape that is ripened
Or a bottle aged to perfection

Summer's lustful wheat in the fields
Leaves crimson become blood at the till

The sun has risen halfway
Standing in time until...

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Altar

Let me worship at your altar
on my knees
like a prayer between my lips
wet on my tongue
a fire in my throat
an aching in my soul
Hot liquid running down
dripping, staining as it goes
Darkness boiling beneath skin
forgive my sins, embrace...

– by Jesse Fron

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Archimedes

O lover of fates
Were the fates to love
Would maiden hold
Loft your bonzéd hair
Or mother gaze at
Roots and watered iris fair
In longing passion
Whence crone became
That jealous fire
Which yields one insane
Were Alexandria to hold
All...

– by Jesse Fron

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Autumn Ground

It wasn’t your fault your words cut so deep,
It was my fault for believing.
I’m a toasting glass in the midst of revelry,
Used and then crushed to pieces.

The bruises you left on my skin faded but
It somehow hurts even more
Like all the...

– by Jesse Fron

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Sweet Whisky

Out of my mind, drunk on lust, love
Sweet whiskey lips on tongues tasting
Moisture mixing deep in my chest, I feel it
A dull ache becomes a raging fire
I can't keep my hands to myself
I'm drunk on you, a familiar feeling
But it's scary to be...

– by Jesse Fron

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