They Never Buy
...the bannisters were cold, house dark and dreary, I was alone
no surprise because I have been in solitude since my death
ninety-six years of stark, staid, stillness, hearing no voices
I am tired of...
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Categories:
bannisters, life,
Form: Narrative
The Designers Eye
...The Designer’s Eye
I look up to the blue expanses,
Needing to see just a trace of my designer,
Just an eyelash, or the tiniest of a skin flake.
Maybe just the descent of a strange leaf,
So t...
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Categories:
bannisters, life,
Form: Free verse
Room Won'T Disclose
...Majestic flight sweeps up from lobby sprawl
Mattress padding pink carpet creeps corners
Bannisters ornate in century's old discussions
Omit disclosure of grim history above
Uniform scuff tread...
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Categories:
bannisters, death, fantasy, halloween,
Form: Free verse
It Was the Word After All
...Wrapped into a cocoon of impenetrable meaning and faith he followed the light
Doom and gloom had once shadowed his library of dreams and contentment
Scattered in his loony resemblance of a rati...
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Categories:
bannisters, books,
Form: Free verse
The Cat
...If my cat could talk i wonder what it would say
With eyes of total wonderment and times of yesterday.
This is what I think my cat would begin to tell me now
If she had words and not of variations ...
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Categories:
bannisters, animal, appreciation, crazy, cute,
Form: I do not know?
Gathered Round Our Christmas Tree
...The stately fir and cedar
are roped in garlands green
about the staircase bannisters
edging old wood's polished gleam.
Their bracing forest fragrance
punctuates the air with spice;
on the tree ...
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Categories:
bannisters, angel, christmas, missing,
Form: Rhyme
Another Time, Another Porch
...Once upon a corner in the City,
An old porch of craftsmen days
Vine winding posts and bannisters and rockers,
Drawing one and all on their way.
Afternoons were busy with our mother,
Rocking, men...
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Categories:
bannisters, nostalgia, sweet,
Form: Free verse
Walk Down the Stairs of My Poem
...Chicken curry worry about finances
of dinners on the table consisting of
bank statements eat paper water vapour
s...
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Categories:
bannisters, adventure, blue, fantasy, good
Form: Imagism
Rainy Days
...Rainy days bring moody ways
whilst listening to the earth's
blood fall to the ground in rapid,
persistent beats.
Cars make their way home
after a long day at work,
gingerly picking their w...
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Categories:
bannisters, rain, weather,
Form: Free verse
Memories
...Little boy, dirty knees,
kite floating in the breeze
Findings frogs, tadpoles too,
fall in water, soaked right through
Lolly stick race, down the stream,
school apple pie and shaving cream
I...
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Categories:
bannisters, childhood, family, children
Form: I do not know?