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  Where My Tail Used To Be

  

  By TheCapturedBat, Los Lunas, NM

  There's a little pain At the base of my spine A few nerves the surgeon Just barely touched. We adapt and lose things. It's the way of nature, I suppose, But it makes me sad....
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  Reality

  

  By TheCapturedBat, Los Lunas, NM

  Reality is a ripple On a mirror Stolen from a memory Dreaming on the edge of sleep Trickles and trickles Rubbing gently Just like always Experience is a slow tapping On the window of the soul A doorbell breaking the silence Starting from a sleepy state Where all is gossamer Happiness is ...
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  I'm Not Here

  

  By TheCapturedBat, Los Lunas, NM

  I'm not here I don't exist. I leave no print In your mind When you look at me. Someday I'll die, But I don't think I was ever born. I have memories, But they don't build a past. I'm very distant, I don't appear to be real. I'm nothing you, you see. ...
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  Feather Plucking

  

  By TheCapturedBat, Los Lunas, NM

  Pluck my breast bare Tear out my hair Preen to quiet the need For coveted touch Preen because it hurts It hurts so much Eyes turning to the frayed strand Looking for pain I'll make myself understand But I have to look away I have to tilt my head And pluck my breast Pull out feathers...
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  Heather Dale: Trial of Lancelot

  

  By TheCapturedBat, Los Lunas, NM

  I first discovered Heather Dale when I became fascinated with unusual approaches to well-known legends. Her beautiful, perceptive songs are derived mainly from medieval history and Arthurian legend, and provide a fascinating perspective. In her two entirely Arthurian albums, “Trial of Lancelot...
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  Only Stillness

  

  By TheCapturedBat, Los Lunas, NM

  I wake to find you are not here. I stir, I tremble, I open my eyes. Only Stillness can bring you near. I huddle in my nest of death, waiting for you to appear. I am veiled in my lifeless guise, And I wake to find you are not here. You wait in the darkness. everything I hold dear Is scatt...
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  The Gloom of Distance

  

  By TheCapturedBat, Los Lunas, NM

  Poetic thoughts of death Soak through the claustrophobic embrace Of morose thoughts Filled with soft gloom Too many endings I am breathing water And Swallowing Emotion Afraid for him His pain What he goes through And I don't know If he is safe While I wallow in pain And want and w...
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  The Melodious Cave

  

  By TheCapturedBat, Los Lunas, NM

  Waves pound inside, Blood returning to the heart, Through the mouth open wide Gushing in to be torn apart. Ghostly light Forced into the gloom; Too much beauty For human eyes to consume. The Melodious Cave Thrums with a pounding song, A rhyme of swallowed wave, The crash of a watery gong...
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  Hold You Close And Keep You Warm

  

  By TheCapturedBat, Los Lunas, NM

  You stare at my twisted arm, Follow the scars, a punishment many times decreed, And I hold you close and keep you warm. Bright One, I loathe your beauty, your sunrise charm, Your constant, clinging need, And the way you stare at my twisted arm. In the harmless dark I sense your alarm, An...
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  Mark My Skin

  

  By TheCapturedBat, Los Lunas, NM

  Mark my skin I want to mark my skin I want to find other voices To echo my pain I've lost I am so close to alone Rejected I need to make something Out of my tears Self-pity I should do better than this I want to hurt myself for it But I won't Pull Then tear Touch Darkness B...