Best Cigarette Paper Poems
After Light...Through cigarette paper skin
such a thin, translucent sleeve;
the light of your life beams out.
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Your eye: a spotlight on mum and dad
as they sing to the beat of
your pulsing heart......
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Categories:
cigarette paper, childhood, death, loss, light,
Form:
Free verse
London City Aka Skater Arcadia...woke up to a full day but i can tell the sun's only come half bright
on the cemented pavements and shameless statements of the
buildings towering high.
lately pacing shadows of motion
with squeez......
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Categories:
cigarette paper, allusion, england, environment, girl,
Form:
Wood With a Mellow Breath...With palms so chaste and a grip so pure
She wraps her fingers around the mallets
Letting them sit in the space between her thumbs and first fingers;
When she makes her first few strokes
Hammering......
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Categories:
cigarette paper, africa, nostalgia, poems,
Form:
Free verse
LIKE CIGARETTE PAPER...
My poor mother "La Daniela"
As they called her at the Casa de los Picos
In the capital of Segovia
Where mothers and children took refuge
In the fratricidal war in Spain
While their husbands we......
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Categories:
cigarette paper, allusion,
Form:
Free verse
Eaten By Ants - Part 2...luckily for our ambiguous plot structure
and the stern requirements of partisan doggerel
the ringing coin toss bounced then came up tails
and fortune directed that the box be opened
gingerly grip......
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Categories:
cigarette paper, how i feel,
Form:
Free verse