Read "What is a hybridanelle?" for an involved explanation of the hybridanelle with examples.
Hybridanelle #1 is part III of "The Phantom of Wheeler Camp": allpoetry.com/
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I guess I've gotten tired of sickles knives and daggers,
chucked about with nearly careless ease, -
I'll not forget your whispers, nor the poison words
you coated on the rusty spike of truth, -
From molten ores to flashing thunderheads
to fields of glowing gasses joined with dust, -
the wood that should have framed your living place
rotted from neglect and left you derelict, -
Gather up your mass and spill your shadows down
across the crawl of long distempered hours -
My will was petrified beneath the strain
of heavy fears, imaginary needs. -
a silver sickle sinks into the twilight
as fallen leaves are scattered by the wind; -
Long remembered eyes reflect the twilight
and close against the nascent touch of dawn; -
vapors breathe against the moon
raising plumes within the void -
in memory of Del Warren Livingston (1944 - 2005)
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Indistinct impressions resonate within
like woodwind solos etched against the moonrise, -
a broken road before us wanders who knows where,
shrouded deep in mystery like alders steeped in mist; -
Connect me to the place where light is born,
from where it swells to crest in consciousness -
when was there never famine, never war,
no bloody battles fought for real estate -
Exposure to the elements betrays
emotional and mental negligence -
Shrieks of terror sizzled on melting lips,
reduced to coals that sputtered in the heart; -
I feel the shadows fade before your gaze,
those blurred recesses deep where dreads are stored; -
I drifted through a world of predators,
my larval soul awash in rapid fears. -
like sea-mist on the wind our minds are touched by phantoms
immersed in their love and hate—a plight we cannot escape -
sequoia roots are weaving out into your grave
a crescent figure sings above the west -
Etched amid the suffocating gloom,
Monster clouds roll black against the night; -
time is fractured into mental shards,
strewn against the darkness of my view; - This is a pretty involved explanation that defines and exemplifies the hybridanelle.
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