BLACKBIRD POETRY PORTFOLIO - "GENTLE AND TRUE" (American English)
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Published for the MARTYR Poetry Compendium, Volume #2
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Brilliance of rainbow glares my field of vision,
choosing the course of solidarity is my ever glooming decision,
to free my conscience of sin has been my desire's ambition,

Is it love or lust that they will always want?
that epitome of false affections for me continues to taunt,

Chimes in the distant horizon prompt me to take a chance,
on the possibility that our relationship may traverse into romance,
until the last card is dealt and we blemish our last dance,
the meditation of spirits is complete and I break the folds of a deep trance,
to seek out the heartache of my essence's independence,

The apogee of intent is striking the final hour,
which one is truly my prospering flower?
been locked away in my private little citadel pondering atop the tower,
what right do I have to trade my feelings for another's power?
From whence I prevailed shall I step once more into the mirror,
drain away the last drops within my core of terror,

To taint those doves would merely condemn me further,
but how can you when you love both sides of her...

"COMING OF AGE" 
Composed by Blackbird / MARTYR on Tuesday November 14th, 1995

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Your scent reaches me in the outer realms of sleep's breath,
the smell of roses and warm flesh soothe my cares and worries,
keep the coals burning for as one body we will defy a cold cheating death,
tempest taste of you fills my nostrils as full as that of nourishing berries,

I turn to you and whisper of how sweet you taste now that I have you at last,
sometimes I remember your perfume when you are but a ghost in my mind longing,
you overwhelm the room when you enter with a presence so vast,
a beautiful odor of roses in a bed of womanhood for a man mating ...

"FRAGRANCE"
Composed by Blackbird / MARTYR on Friday January 19th, 1996

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Questions in the mind's landscape of me born to your breast,
may the meeting of the minds professed lay your restless doubts to rest,
why bring this all upon us unless it was my devotion put to the test,
you will never believe my soul's honorable word without my mind's consent lest
I venture with you on a journey that weaves into a direction headed for jaded west,
you've desperately wanted to meet him and before you now finally stands your invited guest,
so much to learn from me; it would take a lifetime to sing life's epiphany in song at best,
besides, there is time replenished to learn of each other in our quest for rest,

You are not someone I will grow to detest even if sometimes you disagreeably persist,
overstaying my welcome would make me a pest in spite of my feeble willpower to resist,

I can't imagine a time or place without you in the painting somewhere,
all the answers you will ever need are foretold,
by looking intently into my timeless eyes so old,
reflecting the utterly simple innocent warmth of a little boy's compassionately adoring stare.

"MEETING OF THE MINDS"
Composed by Blackbird / MARTYR on Monday January 22nd, 1996

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I stroke your forehead softly as clouds forming in your translucent eyes weep,
the wraith reveries force you to reconsider all prevalent seductions of sleep,
in my arms does your frame collapse from its pallid desolation in a heap,
until the enveloping darkness treading within your ideas shall creep,

the shackles bounding your flowing resonant energy in cages of hearth,
left free to be devoured by the the shining ambiance of my mirth,
transfixed were your gentle eyes upon the verility of my ethereal girth,
dire consequences await to consume you in your eminent rebirth,

reflected glances fleeting across the lush surroundings of my luxury chamber,
adhering your disposition to the fluid form of my dancing shade,
merriment before my very countenance came she to me in the everglade,
and we partake of each other's company until the hours grow waner,

her radiant cyclone of joy randomizes even the simplest gesture,
rendering my memories of her useless for to me the sorrow prior is a blur,
of the delicate balance in the fate of the future, all in certainty is unsure,
except underlying the encounter is that there is nothing I crave more than her...

"BELOVED MELYSSA"
Composed by Blackbird / MARTYR on Sunday March 17th, 1996

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I reach for her hand as she sleeps somberly,
her lithe physique spread luxouriously next to me,
all that flamboyant youth is everything I will ever see,

how can it be possible that she,
take her hand away in lover's flee,
when all that I am has become an unheard plea,

will my worries be absolved into my foggy mind of gray?
can we confront our differences day after day?
of misdemeanors and melancholy, I may
make my love the casket where I will happily lay,

It's true that she cares for me in the same way,
she just doesn't always say,
but instead tolerates the fray,
and decides for her sake of sanity to stay,

"NURTURING SEEDS"
Composed by Blackbird / MARTYR on Saturday April 6th, 1996

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The wind in my ears whispers of her voice,
these are her words burned into my brain,
driving me completely insane,
what remains is an inquisition of choice,

Moments suspended by her incessant decision,
authoring our passion's future,
redefining my affectionate nature,
my tears scoffed at with melancholy derision,

The broken trust stained like red wine,
her flawlessness drawn from a natural source divine,
hoping our lover's bond cleansed in clean slate,
yet in her mind was my confession too late?

"CONFESSIONS"
Composed by Blackbird / MARTYR on Tuesday April 30th, 1996

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