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Best Poems Written by Ernest Nepomuceno

Below are the all-time best Ernest Nepomuceno poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Tiny Words

tiny words

'went to the gas station
and opened my mouth 

filled my stomach
with gasoline

lit a match and 
swallowed it in

burned myself
smoked with fire

i spread like charcoal 
smeared in a kid's hand

stenched and charred black
i spread to the pristine clouds

deploring the blue vault
like a black shiitake flower

suffocating lungs
with a dire myth

then went to the ocean
and devoted myself 

to no resistance
and drowned .......

'cut my lips with sharp
visceral shale and waited

for the sharks to gnaw
my weightless lips and

useless mouth ..........
while the rest of me

traveled in the bellies
of fish ..............

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fed by tiny words .

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A Deluge Coming

"a deluge coming" 						7/20/11

there i stood,


….out in the rain

 umbrella full of holes
perforated like a shower drain

… the rain..
.  .  .    .     .      
.    .    .     .    
.    . . .   .     .   
. .  . .
. .  . .
.  . .   .     .     

…dripping down my face

why bother, i would say

……………………………………

so i stood


while droplets glazed my face

,"where are you?" 

i would say
as i slowly turned to clay
    
.       .    .and felt the putty in my throat
begin to weigh



as the moisture stayed

a stillness  parged my voice

there is a deluge coming,
i would say ………………….

,"where are you?" 
just come . . . . .

be my sun

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Coldness

Coldness


I


these winter nights undertake my body 
usurps my reserved warmth with a strangle hold
scraping my nape with night fissures
of black bleeding

my body shrieks to the jerking marrow
and denudes the caverns through my nose
as my breath is a frozen gust along 
the obsidian sky 

fingertips paralyzed -curled to the clutch
of my palms that can't defrost
the serrated shards of the night solidify
as my body convulses and crystalize

the coldness' thickens 
as the pace of the air pervades
until all of me 
- sent like ashes 
from glaciers burned 
- begin to evaporate ..
..........


II

as i ascend 
- there is a silence
a linear silence 
that tauts the horizon

and there is abscence 
-the abscence of the light
...........comfort about the infinite dark
with the pulsating breathing 
of the shimmering stars
and the clarity of the large sky

i oscillate around your satellite
forever like a mortal coil

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The Difference With Mist

the difference with mist		


this…. landscape of blurry fog
mist that rise from breathless trees
kiss with vapors from the mourning rain
wish upon a lonely breeze

place with sorrow your heavy dew
encase thy eternal lips
traced by charcoal and vellum
erased with lightness that is missed

A poetry contest sponsored by Rick Lento

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When I Was a Stone

I 

when i was a stone  
i laid tirelessly on this earth 
high atop a knoll and was content to be 
until someone had fallen  
and loosened my grip    

different from when the rains came 
different from when the drips drained  

the gap that distanced me  
allowed me to suddenly roll 
as much as i could  
until momentum took hold 
and spirited me on
  
and though the winds quelled 
i crumbled along a trajectory  
landing finally   

finally   

II  

and my pores 
slowly relaxed   

my igneous skin cracked -   

i laid and saw the ultra sky  

III  

the sand that shored around me  
was always the thing in sight 
and i smiled with great delight  
looking back from where i rolled  - 
up on the long hill 
where i had forever been 


the sand came  
washing over me 
with silent whispers  
in harmony
 ...... i can finally hear what  
they're saying to me ......   



............we were once like you …….