Love Poem: Untouched Orchard
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Written by: Ink Empress

Untouched Orchard

She's untouched fruit
from forbidden orchards
barren and wrinkled
with fragmented twigs,
whirling to the beat
of melancholic musings 
of black-winged butterflies 
that croon and reflect
the true tragedy of a queen
waiting for the 
return of her king.

Beneath splitting dusks,
above wicked woodlands 
of weathered grim dreams,
personified pomegranate seeds
drip in sangria sins 
that feed her fears and lies
from familiar chalices,
but below the streams of
poetic gardens,
raspberry rivers taste
sweeter than honeydew melons. 

Cosmos decipher
her destiny designed
for a silhouette emblazoned 
in tarnished trinkets, 
But there's nothing left
In her shining throne 
that reflects in sorrow
like a tombstone
adorned with tilted 
tulips and wilted roses 
in a ruined wilderness.
All that remains is 
a crown that lays
amongst ebony
and bones covered in
cobwebs coated in 
memories and hurt.
Her tears swiftly freeze
into frost glazed lakes
holding the last breeze
of mourning dunes
searching for a valley
with his finest tune,
but empty chambers below
her feet echo with ghosts
of his rhymes,
as pantoums tangle in the
paralyzed streaks of 
her golden hair.
She sits in silence listening to the wind
carrying wicked witches
and mythological stones,
Hearing the tale
of beloved cities separated 
by unforgiving constellations.

If eternity can be illustrated
with calligraphic scriptures,
this poetic saga will reveal
immortal affections
through metaphors that 
stretch beyond medieval
manuscripts of an 
infinite infatuation.