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Best Poems Written by Terry Riley

Below are the all-time best Terry Riley poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Skeletons

My honor I placed
On a sepulcher
A gift unto myself

I plunged a knife
Into it's heart
With betrayal
And excuses

Now -
Its death is
A dark shadow
Covering
My shame

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Heart Disease

Phantoms lurk in
The hallways of
My weak and
Tortured mind

Their shadows loom
Both night and day
No place 
For me to hide

A wrong not mended
Eats away
A cancer unto
My soul

Redemption is lost
Hope that’s gone
For death has
Close the door

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Sacred Time

Bursting through the trees
The Daystar's ephemeral
Casting long shadows

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Enveloped

Dragging their shadow
 A battalion of white clouds
 Overtakes the Sun

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Escape

My father drove a tractor
when I was a child
He raised black and tan coon hounds
And hunted the wild

When father wasn't looking
I'd go into their pen
crawl up inside the doghouse
So small and dark within

In explaining my notion
Felt safe starring out the door
World outside so far away
Like being in the womb once more

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F Alse E Vidence a Ppearing R Eal

A clear bag of
Water
Hung by the
Door
Flies, Flies
Hundreds of Flies
Swarming
The back porch

A disguise 
For through their
Eyes
A spider web
Distorted.