Best Brume Poems

The city is a milky, oval opal
cradled between the mountains' breasts;
from my airplane window I view her misty shoulders,
her features masked by darkness,
quiet in midnight...

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you ...
are my moon
(whisper me, coolly)
wan and pale as porcelain
milky moll - `china doll ...
dancing the sky like a Ginza geisha
stars tickling your toes
prettily petulant,...

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In London fog, the river stills.
In silver sleep, it cools and fills
with cobalt mist as dawn unfolds;
above the Thames, the sun bleeds gold.
Into the haze,...

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Lost was I amidst the Scottish highlands
          The evening sky was blushing heaven-kissed
   ...

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I saw her footprints daub the sand
    no other tracks to show, just then
      late afternoon, near...

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oh there, the dappled meadows held
   our dreams, though unassuming
 love twined amidst the highland fells
like grasses thresh -
 sweet saffron flesh 
...

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again …

here I am -
a glum ghost
a somber shadow
I have come to dream

to pledge duty, your gleam
to venerate your foreday liturgy
ah, and mend the mist...

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The earth is sleeping under the blanket of fog,
daylight gently awakens her from her stupor,
misty mountains melt in the magical morning,
as each step surprises us...

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oh, love …

do you still dream?
pray so, find me here
and haunt me -
stab me with those beautiful,
bloodless lies -
I’ll believe it all …
til waking

there -
I...

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oh there, the dappled meadows held
our dreams, though unassuming
love twined amidst the highland fells
like grasses thresh - sweet saffron flesh 
two callow hearts soft-blooming ...

we...

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The last embers of daylight gleam across a round sky
to leave a red ribbon on the horizon...to underscore

The flourishing evening invites us in
as we slide...

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sun’s lucent red orb
                     ...

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Watcher ...
he wandered the mists
the high fells of Scottish countryside
wrapped in robes of their own wan light
aglow like the full of the moon
and aback a...

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Contest:  Trilonette Contest		Sponsor: Joseph May		6-21-23
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River of Clouds

Lazy mists dawdle through valleys,
Wending in a river of clouds,
Surfs deep dales on rising tides.

Silver curly-cue veils dally
On...

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and in a sleepless silent fog
memories burnt out in faded sun
ossified bones shape quaker guns
the past a needle of deeds undone
dusk another skirmish yet unwon

and...

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