The Poetry of Mark Daniel Milbocker 
Firetender

Beauty
captures the idle
thoughts of words placed
side by side.

What enflames the quest
quenches the pain of ennui
quiets the bone hinges
of the errant eye.

Those lapis-like veins
flood in sky lightning,
frenetic synaptical
rush.

Crevices buried in myriad
mountains of color prismisms
falling from an imminent
meternity.

Shadows shrouded by rounded
palms from a raging whirlwind
splintered scintillation rains
on wincing flesh.

An emerging ecstation peels
sinewy sentience from a virgin
radicle radiant	
blaze.		

Ignite the comet's angelic	
wrestling against night's ocean	
expent to the universal edge	
of everything.			

Suffused with potent virility	
Blood filled eyes the gates	
Hears the choral silence of	
golden light.			

Tempest known in the eternal	
tides of the now vista		
spread over the galaxies'	
crown.									

Sapphire seraphim knight the	
voyager's venturing 		
beyond and before the		
blind plateau.			

Guard the ardent ascent		
Guide the burning bright	
Grieve nothing.			
Give all.			

I lay history's mantle			
aside asunder astray			
Watching the nova mesmering,		
emberring smolders			

Erupts the Beloved			
sudden showers around me 		
joy born blazing,			
my Brilliant.							

I tend the moment			
Guard the nascent now			
Give nothing ever to			
hold the wonder.			

Thousands are the fires burning		
in the royal dance of stars		
each gem your eyes			
each quasar finger your touch.		

Plasma peels from a flesh found		
newly consumed from every		
side and size and scene			
embraced.				

Awe open, you are my instacy,		
my presence, my piece of 		
all that ever be			
me.										

Shout the jaden trumpet glare		
Praise the right and			
thankful ever be			
me.										

We fire heaven's furnace		
Flood earth's jubilance			
Found the frenzied peace		
My whirlwind of We.
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