John M. Marshall
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Within the sun and cloud shaped halls
of ancient, sculptured windswept walls
you were waiting
for me to find you.
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A night with black clouds, eminent, foreboding;
a wind filled with snow and arrows of ice
through which flew on massive wings
the Silver Bridge cryptid with ruby-red eyes.
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The black wolf howls
as dusk prowls among the shadows.
Freed from the stones of ancient altars
his haunting song drifts above the willows.
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When asked we speak in chromatic tongues,
polytonal, quadraphonic, tetravalent, precise.
We think in ultraviolet. We dream in cyan.
Our names are endless and alphanumeric.
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The Vision of Delphica
(A Sibyl - one of the oracles of Apollo at Delphi, Greece – circa 600 B.C.)
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Sky Pencil
So wistful within the spirits I call to the clouds before the light,
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John M. Marshall Biography
Founder & Editor – Epiphany Arts; Epiphany Arts Press; Cape Fear Poetry Society ______________________________________________________ Poetry Publications - U. S. Tribal Soul Kitchen, Beautiful Nuance, Wormwood, Poetry Motel, Charlotte Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Alpha Beat Soup, Coastal Plains Poetry Review, Orphic Lute, Ingénue, Bouillabaisse, Earthwise, Innisfree, Word Salad, Locust Magazine, King David, Whatever Is Pure, Universal Personality, Quill & Ink, Bone River Cantata, The Lyricist - Campbell University, The Cairn - St. Andrews College, ATD Bulletin - Federal Aviation Administration, Dark Moon Rising, Poetic Rainbows, Ariga, Foliate Oak, Cross Way Publications, Caffeine Destiny, Ujamaa, Swans Commentary, Penwood Review, Poetic Voices, Autumn Leaves, Underground Window, The Horror Zine, The Star News, Twice The Fright: The Horror Zine, Vol. II (http: //www.amazon.com/Twice-Terror-Horror-Zine-2/dp/1593933584/ref=sr_1_2? ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1273397642&sr=8-2) ______________________________________________________ Poetry Publications – Other Countries Germination – Canada Panda Poetry – Wales Flowing Mist – Romania; Open Wide – Liverpool, England Mageworld – London, England Poetry, Songs and Writers of Scotland – Scotland Cyclamens and Swords – Israel Poetica Magazine - Israel ______________________________________________________ Short Story Publications Germination – Canada Tintota – Australia Word Salad – U. S. afterDinner – U. S. ______________________________________________________ Writing Awards: 1992- Charles A. Shull Award 1993- Caldwell W. Nixon, Jr. Award 1994- North Carolina Poet Laureate Award 1994- Charles A. Shull Award 1995- Charles A. Shull Award 2004- Poets’ Choice Award- Beautiful Nuance Magazine)
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Rain
Within the sun and cloud shaped halls
of ancient, sculptured windswept walls
you were waiting
for me to find you.
Among the nubile nymphs and fawns
wrapped in the raiment of vernal dawns
you were waiting
for me to see you;
and so I came like a child of night
into your eternal, ethereal light;
as you in silence and starry lace
illumined my path to humility.
Upon the mossy, marbled floor
where like rain you draped your hair
you were waiting
for me to touch you.
Beyond the dark and mystic door
where stark and cryptic dreams appear
you were waiting
for me to find you;
and so I came like a child of night
into your eternal, ethereal light;
as you in silence and simplest grace
illumined my path to serenity.
1994
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