Short Story: Blood And Ink
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Frans Jozef Goossens
A poem born of the observation that reserve our hopes and dearest wishes for one day, but it's like a two-faced person, who cajoles us first to set the heart for one course in particular and then brings us up short in our ambitions, never to seize our rewards. 'One day' can be a pathological liar, but with some luck and shrewdness, and a determined will, we can fool the bugger and snap that reward from his fingers
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In the ablutionary light of a hiemal Eve,
treading over the tapering path of ash and soot,
knees buckled, skin splotched and eyes chinked,
his shadow is the gun-metal-grey serenity of
a fey yonder arced above dormant ivory beaches.
His soul is ink and it mutes chapters
on the endurance of a cursed legacy
and bedevilment pelting the heart into a tomb
of disgrace, drown in burning poison;
that ink feeds his blood, races his life pump
to move on, never surrender, to foil the mirage
of mourning with the shield of patience and
the dagger of wit.
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Short Story: Blood And Ink
In the ablutionary light of a hiemal Eve,
treading over the tapering path of ash and soot,
knees buckled, skin splotched and eyes chinked,
his shadow is the gun-metal-grey serenity of
a fey yonder arced above dormant ivory beaches.
His soul is ink and it mutes chapters
on the endurance of a cursed legacy
and bedevilment pelting the heart into a tomb
of disgrace, drown in burning poison;
that ink feeds his blood, races his life pump
to move on, never surrender, to foil the mirage
of mourning with the shield of patience and
the dagger of wit.
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