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FANCIES

The tantalizing scent of a single rose
Oh, how it conjures fancies and such
Its gentle fragrance,
a faint remembrance
of a once favored, intimate touch
...Only another distant flower knows

Each thorn spurs an urgent tremor
as if, a tender, pleading hint
Deeply silent cheers,
muffle latent tears
enfolded in swirls of vibrant tint
...Through the seasons it endures

Melancholy caresses of a velvety petal
never fail to stir a suggestive mind
A long ago Summer day,
your certain way
Cherished moments lost in misty time
...Where the dew has yet to settle....

                                            J. Carlton Ross

BLOODLINE

I ride Temptation's Serpent
for everything it's worth
Yes, I am the one sent
predestined ere my simple birth

I face down the hideous Gorgon
nay, and shan't be turned to stone
With the coming of a new days dawn
still my name shall not be known

I shall never rule aside the Beast
neither will I bend knee in Beulah
I will live my life, at least
with no omnipotent as its ruler

I sit astride the mythical Dragon
breathing fire 'tween Heaven and Hell
No, I am not his long lost Son
nor have I soul to sell

I have rode hard, countless Creatures
none have proven my defeat
No thought of another, regarded Sir
neither will I anoint their feet

  I was born akin to lethal Viper
to remain intrinsically wild
Never to be a tame or groveling cur
no babbler will I "Seig Heil"

I sit well the many headed Hydra
deep into the scurrilous Inferno
To tell tales of what I saw
once I matched the hidden foe

I make no lame, no tired excuses
from me no whine of complaints
No need for me any feeble ruses
have no use for scheming Saints

I storm the raging Whirlwind
finding pleasure where she stray
My life I'll not concede as Sin
no matter what hypocrites may bray

A Man cannot serve two Masters
lest he be slave to one
I'll not kowtow to any bastard
now, or when this life is done

In my veins flow a Barbarian Bloodline
inherited at such an awesome price
The World will ever beget my kind
to battle hordes of mundane mice

J. Carlton Ross

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Poetry Readings

Winning Coffee Company 111 Harvard SE 505 266-0000 readings by UNM's students and professors "Works in Progress"

Wed Jan 12 8 pm - Urban Verba: An Autobiographical Intersection of Hip Hop and Humanity in Five Acts 516 Arts 516 Central SW 3048189 www.516arts.org  $18/$15 Sen.