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The Eclectic Pen - Neptune's Rainbow (A Sestina)

By: Laron C. (icepigs)   + 5 more  
Date Submitted: 12/28/2006
Last Updated: 12/28/2006
Genre: Literature & Fiction » Poetry
Words: 250
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I looked in the frosty night for the Rainbow And my feet shifted against the street’s tile The shooting star flashed so flamboyant Causing the lone dog to bark. The air was cold and sweet as sugar And I prayed to the god Neptune ”Oh, Please,” I begged of Neptune “Guide my love home with your rainbow For her lips to me taste like sugar” Then I tripped o’er a crack in the street’s tile My palms tore against the tree’s rough bark The bright red blood looked flamboyant Blood oozed and dripped so flamboyant Down three fingers like the trident of Neptune “My sacrifice to you, Sea God!” I said with a bark I grew weak and my eyes saw a rainbow In my blood splashing on the tile My thoughts on the lips of my sugar. How I wished to kiss those lips of sugar Lips painted with colors flamboyant Layered lipstick like a mason lays tile Shades as deep as the seas of Neptune Encompassing the colors of the rainbow Red as the blood caused by the bark Wait! Do my eyes see a three-masted bark? Through the snow as fine as sugar I lost the vision of the rainbow In pure white nothing is flamboyant Freezing the home of Neptune Encasing the sea in icy tile The ice cracked like the crack in the tile And in the harbor was the three-masted bark All praise be unto mighty Neptune! He has returned to me my sugar My happiness made my smile flamboyant Tied to port was the ship called “Rainbow” To the tile her feet left the Rainbow The departing crew barked their praises to Neptune Her kiss tasted of sugar, my heart flamboyant

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