Beneath Autumn Starlight~Songs for Creaturely Hearts~

~victoria pettella~

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Autumn engulfed 

the last wounds 

of Summer

Kissed every petal 

to its withering end

Made pyres 

of burning altars

all for her

Combed her 

glittering 

mane 

 down into 

the earthly roots

Fused in a tapestry 

of eternal seeds

And dressed her  

in a shimmering frock 

of Majestic 

Death

~victoria pettella

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In the Autumn flowers

where life 

was fading

I began to live

again

~victoria pettella~

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Creaturely<<Birds>>Hearts

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Birds hang their hearts 

like beads upon 

burning threads of sunrise

Fire and glory sing 

in Summer's grand pyre 

of wild blooms

Violets circling the Lily's 

first opening

Tangled Harebell comfort

the dying mound of Iris

Catnip swarms the floral 

husks from Midsummer

There were stones overturned

from night creatures

Swiftly, the Robin swims 

for worms in 

a newly revealed 

wave of earth

The Moon still hides 

in an ocean of daylight

the palest blue dithering 

on pearlescent-grey

The Raven has 

muffled its grim caw 

in the highest pine

Untouched by 

the golden

Elven-breeze

so close

so close we are

so far from 

infinity

~victoria pettella~

SPELLS<<<HEARTS>>>Faery-bones
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Faery-bones weave my Heart

with vaporous spells

of haunted flesh

and Forest blood

Wild in their mischief

they lace my dreams

in Wreathes of Red Toadstool

and Rowan berries

Soul twined in burning Hazel

Poems stitched in Elder Bark

Kisses for the Darkling Elves

who dance nightly

for the Queen Lark

~victoria pettella~

Creaturely-Fae...so lingersome

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Lingersome-Fae 

Near the white Lily Glen

Birds of paradise soaked 

in Summer's waning dew

Should the Elm bow down 

to the sleeping wren

I will come near

For it is here 

where I found you

With your inkwell and poems

and wild sunrise potions

The fawn and flora kissed

beneath the slumbering 

Maiden of May

You read aloud not knowing 

I could hear

Listening to your dark voice

like a velvet bell 

tolling in the 

thundering void of my heart 

I knew who you were to me

and I sat upon the mossy hill 

Hidden by the brambles

 and the stolen skeletal berries

Where the maimed fox lingers still

like a phantom tiger-lily-bloom

Mane of marmalade-fire

Your eyes were made 

of hidden firelight 

Cloaked in a cape 

of infinite-black

And I yearned to fill them 

with my love-light of stars.. 

For you to gaze upon my soul

and feel your sad eyes open

so newly healed

and glimmering for mine

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~victoria pettella~

a tapestry 

of Wolf-bones

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Beneath pale blinding 

spires of Moonlight

How silent the ivy grows

swelling from 

the honey-torn earth

Emerald-stars gleaming

the shadows upon bark

Liminal , my heart sank

then fell no more

Lost between the ritual 

of time and its hidden portal

A tapestry of wolf-bones 

hung high upon 

the black pines

She danced like a wild 

Faery-witch

cloaked in the woodland-blur

soaked in Autumn's darkest wine

A myriad of splitting mirrors 

and broken birds

spinning songs unknown

Daggers cleansed in the rainfall

the forest quelling 

with gasping light

quietly disappears

beneath fading galaxies

How silent , the ivy billows

upon graves of moss

And carves through

daisy-grazed meadows

Liminal, my heart sank

then pulsed no more

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~victoria pettella~

creaturely-wizards

Foxglove hovers atop

green crinoline

and drowns for Spring's 

Eternal rainfall

Spells unearthed 

like blooming wounds

Songs undone by 

the banshee-heart 

still lingering 

upon the Heathered cliff

The sea-birds crave salted-air

and shrilling gulls fling their 

ballads of doom scant-across

the sea-foam rocks

The wizards of old

unmask their ghosts

to those unafraid 

of what they have lost

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~victoria pettella~

Songs beneath Autumn starlight

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Beneath 

the Autumn Starlight

we become

Beautiful Creatures

Hauntful, wild

and luminous

In October's 

strange magic

~victoria pettella~

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Autumn's breath

a storm of ancient bells

ringing wild

with wind and fire

upon Summer's

Floral grave

~victoria pettella~

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Garden of Wolves

Stay with me

Wander my

 Creaturely Heart

For within it 

live infinite 

Fairytales 

of the Dark Forest

and beneath every Moon

you may dream with me

cloaked in the Garden

of Wolves

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~victoria pettella~

SONGS>>>HEARTS<<<OCTOBER

Skeletal whisper 

on your lips

poems of death 

seep through 

October's  skin

Autumn leaves sweet 

in my mouth

Love blooming 

beneath 

the graveyard dirt

~victoria pettella~

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AUTUMN STARLIGHT

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Autumn Starlight

burning 

mystic wild

in the Ancient

Woodland-heart

~victoria pettella~

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Forever..beneath Autumn Starlight

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Softly, where

the dying meadows 

linger

in the hush 

of Autumn Starlight

the birds gather to chant

where is October's 

dancing breath?

She is the gothic rainfall

parting the leaves

bleeding into 

the rustic forest

of heart-torn melancholy

For Summer has 

sunken away

like a swollen grave

where frayed-angels 

wear wings

of broken seeds 

and ripening clay

Tourmaline-flowering skies

rushed out of your eyes

and I was forever 

changed

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~victoria pettella

Beneath 

Autumn Starlight

words~victoria pettella

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