1.
Portrait of My Skanky Muse
(Dawn-joy Leong, 17 November 2007)
Hungry eyes
Wet lips
Swollen thighs
Painted tips
Tired sighs
Desperation
Tall tales
Aggravation
Poison Ivy, hemlock juice
Portrait of my Skanky Muse
Putrid honey
Filthy sluice
Spread legs
Rancid puce
Hot licks
Sweet venom
Milk shakes
Feigned innocence
Poison Ivy, hemlock juice
Portrait of my Skanky Muse
2.
Bleeding into the Cesspools of Beauty
(Dawn-joy Leong, 15 October 2007)
Bestial creature
Gaze transfixed
Craving pleasures
Hunger drowning
Ravenous anger
Slowly, softly
Languidly bleeding
Into the cesspools of beauty
3.
Haunted Houses
(Dawn-joy Leong, 18 October 2008)
Living inside
Haunted houses
Specters deride
Empty trousers
Witches don’t die
They just get stronger
Riding their brooms
Harder, rougher, better
Last night, I cried
I would die for you
But I know
You’d kill me
Before I could
4.
Call and Response
(Dawn-joy Leong, 25 October 2007)
SWORD OF FROZEN BLOOD
Piercing
Warm, pulsating softness of my heart
Reaching, collapsing
Embracing, seeping
Melting, dying
“Of course I love you, darling pie”
Mock me, taunt me with your lies!
Angry, hot icicles
Numb, welded limbs
Helpless spirals
Suspended dreams
Mute echoes
Silent screams!
“I can give you so much more than pain”
Strip my soul, leave me bleeding in the rain!
Copious, velvet trickle
Ardent crimson flood
Tearstained canticle
Wailing specters
Anguished whispers
Hemorrhaged darkness
“You’re my angel from above”
Heartless climax for my unquestioning love!
5.
Invisible Child
(Dawn-joy Leong, 24 June 2009)
Tears misplaced
Fear disgraced
Yearning without solace
Burning, empty furnace
Screams suspended
Dreams devastated
Tender love
Mocked, defiled
Mute hope
Invisible child
6.
Wake Up in My Dreams
(Dawn-joy Leong, 8 August 2008)
Dancing with my shadows
Whispering, “Good Night”
Humming silent wishes
Smiling deep inside
Dancing with my shadows
Jarful of moonbeams
Come, lay down beside me
Wake up in my dreams
Dawn-joy Leong 