~poems for invisible creatures~

victoria pettella

The Bluest Flame

Wild

my bones 

could not feel death

the rain in my skull 

wore the bruise 

of lonely flowers

Alone

near the strange 

mossy hollow

the rabbit fell away 

like mist

and I was no longer lost

For the endless 

glimmering thread

split itself 

upon the bluest flame

and I was free

~victoria pettella~

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 poems for invisible creatures

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I am 

a strange creature

in love

with my own hauntings

~victoria pettella~

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It is the scar of Dawn 

that lingers Upon 

the Dragon's stolen-Breath

The skull of lone-Bird

in regal-sunset

The darkling-Oak 

to the wild Fairy-heart

The Bard of solace to the dying Lark

It is the splintered Star

Upon Night's

jagged -tongue

the Lost-Meadowhawk

stitching

her way

back to the

Sun

And when the lamp-light Heart 

becomes a looming-Sky

full of hurricane-birds 

and haunted-Song

the Coyote-Willow bleeds down fast

into the feral-dust of Invisible Arms

For Autumn sends her Bonfire-ghosts

into the vanishing welts of Dawn

to kiss vaporous-Wings 

of fractured birds 

Now faded, wistful 

And gone

~victoria pettella~

She fell into the arms
of the dying forest
and gave all of her flesh
to the wilds
of earth

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In the deeps 

of the Eternal

Silver ravens plucked stars 

from my soul

Spiders made graves of lace 

in my skull

Fireflies danced their light

into my bones

and Autumn's grimoire 

set itself on fire

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victoria pettella

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In Winter sings

a silent bird

that only those near death

can hear

~victoria pettella~

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INVISIBLE CREATURES..

Veins of Emerald-Armour

The Trees 

pour their Emerald-Armour

into my veins

Forest-Marrow fills my bones

My dreaming-flesh

wears the Floral-Shield of Faery

My heart long dead

in the bark

~victoria pettella~

I N V I S I B L E  

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To All Things Otherworldly and Beautiful...Destroy me

I would rather take the risk

of being destroyed

by something

otherworldly and beautiful

than to keep living

in an empty tomb

with nothing extraordinary

to weep for

~victoria pettella~

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Lay with me beneath

the sharpened husk

of the Moon

Braid my raven-hair

with blue stars and sapphires

Sing me your dark Autumn-song

Let me belong only to you

and make a sinewed grave of magic

for our flesh to sigh and dream 

forevermore

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poems for...Invisible Creatures

So hauntful-glows 

my Faerie-torn heart

wounds -Upon-tide 

and Worlds they-meld

All in the Moonlit-dark

Searing, jagged-waves burn

Across the Vampyric-clock 

Skeleton-keys lost 

in the hungering-Winds

To the Enchantress hidden-Nigh

fernseed-dried and crystals buried 

in the Forest-Tomb

The Red-fox gathers 

Round the Elm-tree-Eye

and the rain-kissed Roots

where lullabies of Dark 

weep in the Earth

where the sad-Witch-lass 

burned and burned

And her Heart-lay

beneath the Emerald-mound

armoured in metal 

encased in a locked-box

with lost-poems, the Darkest-stars 

and such Lonely-torn-moths

~victoria pettella

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 We are Blue Wildfire

poems for invisible creatures

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I have been wearing

the Lost-Stars

Feeding from death

Swimming in Fire and Ashes

Seeding my wounds

in the-Evermore

of unanswered-dreams

Searching the drifting

galaxies

Someone send me a sign

I have been dying

for years

Someone send me a sign

I have been alive 

on the Other-side

of the Universe....

Waiting to merge

explode, bend into light

Waiting to find you

A haunting-Plethora

of nothingness

still carries the Light 

from your

sleeping-Heart

I wear your Starlight

and your Sword

Stitched to the Cosmos

last-lingering-Veins

Hoping you will find me

inside the Breath

Of this Lonely-dream

~victoria pettella~

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poems for invisible creatures

No longer impermeable 
Light glimmers from the veil of the Moon 
She has come to taste and free my wounds 
Cosmic Ghosts soak me in Auric Bloom… 
For I am no longer caged in dreams 
No longer a dormant seed 
No longer impermeable
My soul in transit
Now winged and free

~victoria pettella~

All poetry~Victoria Pettella

poems for invisible creatures

POEMS

FOR

INVISIBLE

CREATURES

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The Lost and Faery-wild Forest

 

I gave my breath to Nebulous Dreamworlds ~1

~ victoria pettella~

Longing for wildflowers

she 

was like the wind

eternal 

and longing

for wildflowers

like a bird 

deepening 

her song

and pouring her 

honey-wings

into the wounds of sunlit 

meadows

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victoria pettella

My dreaming skin

It is the wild lark

pecking through 

my dreaming 

skin

telling me my wounds can fly

telling me my scars 

are thin

biting through 

emerald veins and dead 

flowers

setting fire 

to moon-kissed flesh

in Summer's final 

hours

I have ripped 

myself 

o p e n

so I can climb 

the Autumn trees

My light escaping

the dark bird 

in me

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victoria pettella

s o l i t u d e

solitude

a beautiful abyss

an exquisite loneliness

a longing for the soul

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victoria pettella

I gave my breath to nebulous dreamworlds

I swam through 

Night's obsidian heart

Tasted velvet skulls 

and moonflowers

Painted my skin

in the blood-nectar 

of starlight

and gave my breath 

to nebulous dreamworlds

The Moon adorned me

in her most radiant armour

and set me adrift

upon waves

of the Eternal

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victoria pettella

Herbarium

The softening strands 

of existence 

the lasting wounds 

of impermanence

Here... we kissed the dying sunlight

wafting wild from our dreaming lips

luminous threads 

weaving dark flowers 

through our skin

Strange forests, phantom nectars 

steeped in secret 

here.... on the gentle brink 

the blackening cosmos

never told me why

my eyes remember yours

And eternal-sleep came

to taste 

the decadent-haze

of my final breath

the moon... parting my skin 

the sacred chasm-within

Can you see my bouquet of bones? 

my skeletal-pyre burns sweet 

and stains the wind with a lilac-kiss 

I have slipped far past a lingering wave 

a herbarium of invisible flesh

where burning stars 

once lived

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victoria pettella

Summer's veil

Where I have been lately..

I have been

Dreaming with the foxgloves 

along Summer's veil

Reading poems

under the ghost-bride 

of moonlight

Chanting as all wild-hearted 

witches do in the forest

Wandering through the towers 

of goldenrod and sorcerer's violet

Offering my soul 

to the rain-soaked gardens

Swallowing the sunlight

in the mossy labyrinth-womb

Standing still in the bones 

of the blue night

Listening to the creatures 

and leaving offerings

Tangling into branches 

searching for wisdom

Sleeping in the ivy 

and waking against the bark

Harvesting mother's greenery 

and weaving new seeds

Letting my spirit dance 

with the never-ending cosmos

Finding my freedom 

in the season of light

~victoria pettella~

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eternal-spiral~skin

one night of fireflies 

and wine I wandered

through the tall sweetgrass

my skin fell away 

into colored shards of mica

the sky swallowed me whole

as though I were an offering

I felt the cosmic mists

take hold and whisper to me 

within

dancing through 

like wild dragonflies

a divine collision,  

spirals and tails

sliding down an endless spell 

of Moons

i carry the memory as a child 

now gone

and still I cling 

to molten stars

still i dream of worlds afar

I never could quite see your face

but it has always belonged 

to my heart

it carved a sacred meadow 

through my soul

and returned me

through spheres of pinks 

and gold

shimmering skins

fastened with light

a vessel pours me back 

to life

starry elixir

stitched into my hand

I awake beneath the Birch, 

glass and sand.

~victoria pettella~

I gave my breath to nebulous dreamworlds

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In my dreams

the Raven 

pecks through

my sleeping heart

and feeds it

to the whirling 

Cosmos

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victoria pettella

The Wild-eyed Moon

Victorious

All poetry ~Victoria Pettella

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I gave 

my breath

to Nebulous Dreamworlds

Even in the darkness...

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