Best Canvasses Poems

Must you mileage chalk up in free verse speed way

   For Kim Patrice Nunez*, with hope

Must you mileage chalk up in free verse...

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 [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral...

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Tossed my slippers, walked barefooted
through the alley of my wall where my paintings are adorned, 
saw the canvasses lined neatly on wall
where dim light of...

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When the sky rains down in jelly bean lights
Colors bright, multiplying themselves through lightning bolts
Seen through their candy cracks opened loud
Like clouded green glass glowing...

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 [Poem read at Sekoto’s inhumation ceremony at the Neuilly-sur-Marne-93 Cemetery, near Paris. Channel 4 in London recorded the reading as they did the funeral...

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          Corpus

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let these words to read roll on as ramble reflections of another setting son
Shadow painted pictures in leaves of fickle breeze
Under changing skies of purple...

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SHOCKING!!!!!!!! WHAT? THAT?


Bad taste?
They know not what is at stake
They do as they please
Then later beg for forgiveness
A right sin
And a dismal business

Nothing is shocking...

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I want canvasses
littering my room
fed by paint from my brushes
and lukewarm water from my brains
I want to see a billion stories
scattered all about my walls
and...

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"Mona, oh Mona, when will you ever understand

our mankind is not for your taking, as you smiled;

I had taken your hand." I had clearly witnessed...

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Remind me of magical things
Enhance my joy, my being alive,
Tiny newborn babies who thrive
Precious jewels in golden rings,
Canvasses of sentient colors
Starlit skies of deep velvet...

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It is a dreadful burden to see
Life through the eyes of a poet

Rambling rivers become languorous heartbeats
Cloudless skies drawn as cerulean canvasses of god
Winter is...

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Oh, those birds—there goes another one flying by
Wonder where he is going and why?

Of God’s creations, they are the luckiest in deed;
They can fly away...

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Moods oscillate in cadences of peaks and valleys
Music to fractious emotions on greasy dance floors
Mistimed cues of flares smouldering relationships

Angst of redundancy seethes from within...

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Red and blue blending
into liquid purple build 
spiritual tranquility;
violet energies
swirl into hues of
jubilation and unbound
elation,
euphoric ecstasy.

Lavender sprays
engulf the senses,
as nature paints her canvasses
with amaranthine song;
I...

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