Best Accoutrements Poems

Mom gave me it.
A last moment thing,
as if I gave a flit
about silly customs.
Yet, for my daughter
it's preserved... ****!

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Nancy Jones
POEM OF COMPRESSION
9/23/13...

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The Accoutrements of Knowledge



The accoutrements of knowledge
had crept into his life, overtaking it.
No more did he sit and think,
idly allowing nuance to shade gray
the black and white of learning’s
playful inconsistencies.  Old books,
manuals, manuscripts, texts,
subscribed to journals, cluttered
his encroaching space.  Old thoughts,
ideas, dreams, brainstorms...

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