Broken Lantern
(incanted)
(incanted)
Cricket sing and beat the bat
deaf against a stony post.
Rub your legs that can't be fat;
chase away the sonar ghost.
Broken lantern lost his light
thrown on the rocks of endless night,
snakeskin succubus lost her bite
cast out by a wafer and an old man's fright.
A broken hag saw her mirrored face
A broken hag saw her mirrored face
plowed up for flowers with a double-bit brace.
Changeling child found a cold embrace
in a boomerang's claw, in a fickle grace.
Light was broken, curse was spoken
Light was broken, curse was spoken
though she made no sound. It lay on the ground.
The sun gave a shout, the well gave out
the cow went dry, but the bishop ate trout.
In a hawk heavy sky, when the moon was round
In a hawk heavy sky, when the moon was round
two doves died fast, two sins flew past
the nightingale singing her bloody last
of a lightness broken, a curse soft spoken.
Closed door womb, a raddled room
Closed door womb, a raddled room
littered with toys as a baby's tomb
where the curse was spoken, where light lay broken;
where the babe's bound tight and gently lies
in arms of steel where the knife never dies.
in arms of steel where the knife never dies.
Too soon, too soon, for the hard lullabies,
for the waking sleep never meant to keep
where the curse is spoken, the light is broken.
Cricket sing and fool the bat
deaf and blind, lost and found.
Wild wolf howl, wail black cat;
light is broken and lies on the ground.
~November 2012
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Posted for OpenLinkNight at dVerse Poets Pub
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