Any Number of Little Scoundrels, New Poetry, Digital Photography and Art, You Belong to the Night, Poetry and Spoken Word Revisited

[prydefoltz]

Any Number of Little Scoundrels

petals and leaves
open and unfurl


kiss capricious zephyrs


toss about
with aimless breezes


until a growingly, savage grip
becomes an unyielding
grasp

coy, haughty belles
unravel their helical hems
the slip, the fall, the autumn
of their allure

it is a glorious descent
a wonder to behold

attractive to bird, bees
any number of oglers

consumed by ravenous
little scoundrels

they will take
what they can get

play while Parvati allows

for eventually even the most
boisterous blusters turns iced
stills to a white nothingness
an entombed ungraspable
unfulfilled promise

          

joints and limbs freeze
the soft and vulnerable
cut down, immobilized
to stem and seed

how beautiful and youthful you were
how sure and unpitying

but in the end
we all pray
for spring

the renwed worship
of fickle, little scoundrels

You Belong to the Night

(Click on thumbnail to visit the spoken word)

Ra has withdrawn his lapis lazuli shield
left you unsheathed, bared and vulnerable
to the whims and yearnings of Anubis

the dark one reaches out
you protest with impotent resistance
he offers insistent intimacy
the thirst for moonlight brims
mutual desire must be quenched

Cleopatra, Cinderella
Snow White, fallen before
the charms of caesars and princes
fade in the shadow-spill
of Stygian ink

dream darkly, fair lady
this is but a Duat visitation
drink it up

Red Riding Hood
has beaten the path
follow

Rapunzel’s shorn gold locks
have flattened the meadow
lay back

there is no slipping
the Persephonic mesh
for Sleeping Beauty …

while onyx reveals the stars
you belong to the night

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Words and Images are my own.

Any Number of Little Scoundrels was first published today.

You Belong to the Night is published in Monsters, Avatars, and Angels.

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Comments

[old-guy-photos]

I really like those shots against that deep black, Pryde.

[prydefoltz]

Thanks, Paul. That took some time to achieve:)

[photohaus]

Wow, beautiful!!!! Cool photo 👍

[prydefoltz]

Thank you:)

[kamrunnahar]

Nice flowers photography.

[prydefoltz]

Thank you:)

[poshtoken]

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[ludmila.kyriakou]

Very beautiful flowers!

[prydefoltz]

Thank you:)