Gardenia

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    Gardenia

    Oh cunning charisma
    Oh gardenia pale and bright
    Fragile, weeping in the lonely moonlight
    A wicked whiff of saccharine in the coldest night
    At my breath, breathing breaths wet and dry
    Blinding to my darkened eye

    Spinning are your yielding petals
    Screaming are your taciturn leaves
    Outstretched, grappling against a breeze
    Inflamed in a hot white fire
    As a dancer losing rhythm in torrent wind
    Coyly bending, stem over stem to aspire

    On a miserly draft, cloaked in exotic sheath
    Dangling on Death’s wire
    On two weightless feet
    In my desiring, half wakened dream
    Silent and serene, you gracefully careen
    Singing dulcet in my weary mind, you blanched devil
    Calloused by stinging rain, twice disheveled

    I spare a few heart strings for you
    A basket of sentiments, though slight as dew
    For a trite love sits on those torpid petals
    Yet beneath that layer of anguish that nettles
    Lies
    A lake of wanton love
    In quiet repose, full and true
    In those heavy tears which bulge as dew

    A circle of sallow
    A divine light in the eve, though wilting at break
    Your blossom is pure, make no mistake
    Delicate like a note played by harp
    Winter’s melancholy song sung sharp


    One blossom, cold as ice
    A phantom in its colorless fright
    Your whisper wisps off into shadows
    A mane glows against blackest hallows

    What sin is charisma
    The gardenia that calls
    With passion deceiving
    It trickily crawls

    I shall pluck you from your dirty garden!
    Water you, set you atop my table
    Watch you grow in my heart’s longing cradle
    One voice, one blossom full and bright
    Fading graceful in my hungry light

    In desolation, a beauty of fairest flesh
    Kind to lips, unkind to breast
    Weak and subservient to eyes that gawk
    Watch the leaves grow sour, the flower taut

    And petal after petal shall fall
    Dropping to these palms without flaw
    Your feet do not graze the table anymore
    They graze the tapestry of my memory
    Which maimed, floats on the floor

    Wicked, oh wicked white devil
    Oh welting with your watering charisma
    Whipping and wafting with wooing scent
    A kind and gentle mannerly gent
    What brings your pain such a foul tongue
    Spinning me round like a shawl undone
    You impervious thing, you blanched devil
    You phallic siren with a head of thistle

    Gardenia bright, mellifluous light
    Peace be with thee
    You will die tonight
    As I squeeze your stem and cut it with my heart
    Cut it away, quick and hard

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    BlackLabel commented on Gardenia

    04-01-2009

    I like it a lot, your writing is truly artistic.

    Grito commented on Gardenia

    03-23-2009

    Hot heart, cut to the quick!!!

    Gabriel85 commented on Gardenia

    03-23-2009

    Just brilliant. I'm so envious of your way with words.

    Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

    Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997) U.S. poet.

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