Best Chipping Poems

constantly chipping away—
seventeen years of weathering
arguments, differences, rebukes
and then reconciliations
I gave in some, you gave up some
for the smiles in each other’s eyes
opinions, values that we once held tight
we let go reluctantly but gradually
to make us work, to keep the promise alive
erosion of personalities over...

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A day of tedious repetition and replicated interest
Weigh down a young soul.
I am tired,
The warm sun my sweet lullaby.

My heavy head rests on my arms,
And I fall to sleep not before an imperfection
Steals my eye:
A minute area of chipped deck stain.

Face so close to the...

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