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Rose Petal Dreams

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Photo by Meiying Ng on Unsplash

Laid hearts open, revealed and revered
Our eyes tug towards the moon
Always the moon
As we dream of rose petal skies

There are no stars to guide us
No cloudburst tears to wet our roots
They’re not needed
For we are dreamers of rose petal moments

Silver and gold may flow in our veins
Stain the ground in ventricular bursts
It’s never crimson
Not for dreamers of rose petal lies

There’s a chill upon him
And a heat upon you
Always so warm
Perhaps, from my rose petal dreams

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Richard

Richard M. Ankers
Author of the brand new steampunk extravaganza Britannia Unleashed.
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Faking Dusk

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image courtesy Sonja Langford Unsplash.com

Tungsten sky sits heavy across heaven
Impassable barrier dividing life and Life
Crushing the air from tired lungs
Faking dusk

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Richard

Richard M. Ankers
Author of the brand new steampunk extravaganza Britannia Unleashed.

Sea Spray and Stars

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Photo by Gabriel Tovar on Unsplash

Over the clover fields and far away
Beyond the rolling hills
Where unsettled horizons pulse and stir
And a roiling ocean caresses the sky
Blowing kisses, day and night
White lips pursed to darkening blue
Always touching, just
Sea spray and stars, they meet in love
Aside a jilted moon

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Richard

Richard M. Ankers
Author of the brand new steampunk extravaganza Britannia Unleashed.

Coquette

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Photo by Alexandru Zdrobău on Unsplash

A look,
a raising of the eyes,
lashes batted,
half a smile,
the wiping of a lock,
the slightest cough,
flirtatious traits exaggerated
by an impudent desire
to remain single.  
This is the girl in the corner. 
This is the girl for me. 

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Richard

Richard M. Ankers
Author of the brand new steampunk extravaganza Britannia Unleashed.

Live Wires

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Photo by Eunice Stahl on Unsplash

Live wires dare to touch

To spark in cobalt blue

To start a fire and burn the world

To burn this observer, too

–

Live wires, they dance

They pulse and wiggle like worms

Multicoloured, though browning

Touching each other in turns

–

Live wires, we were, once

Not split and spitting

But a single conducting cable

From where I was sitting

–

Live wires drawn together

To kill the gloom

When truly the gloom was ours

In that little, sheltered room

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Richard

Richard M. Ankers
Author of the brand new steampunk extravaganza Britannia Unleashed.

Only

Image by me
Image by me

Only in sadness is happiness found.

Only in melancholy is there a shift to peace.

Only when the ravens bow is life acknowledge.

Only at midnight do we cease to die.

Why?

Only time will tell, and only if we listen.

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Richard

Richard M. Ankers
Author of the brand new steampunk extravaganza Britannia Unleashed.

Cold, Cold, Love

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Photo by Kristopher Roller on Unsplash

Fingers entwine like November branches,
The chill offering pleasurable release;
There’s no benefit to being overly warm.
We swish amongst the decadent leaves
Raining down in shades of gone:
Ah, the bliss of the festering mind. 
A moment in the meadow is a lifetime on the sea;
Translucent waves like polished glass
Revealing only an inverse night. 
The hole looms like a collapsed bed,
And I can’t wait to draw the obsidian sheets high. 
A raven rattles a warning, or a joyful dirge,
Flapping wings to dispel the buzzing bats;
They’ve already consumed the flies.  
She bends low like an avalanche 
Destroying all I’ve ever known, been, seen.
I welcome it, her, this unmarked legacy, 
One colder than my heart. 
The impossible shades of an afterlife found
Embrace this shell and pop out a nutlike soul. 
And though I wish to scream ‘come back’
She spins a maelstrom, shifting time and tide for me,
Only for me, always for me, as she ever has and ever will.
For though our cold, cold love is abhorrent to most,
The universe has just gained two more stars.

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Richard

Richard M. Ankers
Author of the brand new steampunk extravaganza Britannia Unleashed.

Lost in Worlds

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Lost in Worlds

Lost in worlds so far removed
From time, and tide, and thought
Above the clouds, beneath the sea
Floating in-between
Preferring views not seen but felt
For I am but a man
As sand, I’m filtering
Through the hourglass, now
For each and all to see

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Richard

Richard M. Ankers
Author of the brand new steampunk extravaganza Britannia Unleashed.

Haiku 10

Artwork by me

tired skies beckoning
the pale-faced insomniac
familiar blankets

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Richard

Richard M. Ankers
Author of the brand new steampunk extravaganza Britannia Unleashed.

Cerebral Attack

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Image courtesy Bethany Szentesi Unsplash.com

—
Scissors cut these eyes
Sever all they’ve seen
Push harder, deeper, further
Slice away stem dreams 

—

Delve new holes to Hades
Silver blades to black
Echoes born of memories
This cerebral attack

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Richard

Richard M. Ankers
Author of the brand new steampunk extravaganza Britannia Unleashed.