Best Cutout Poems
Castaway CutoutGlue together
Flu barretta
Sick sorry sad soul
Alone in my bones
Castaway island moon
Crying at me dying whilst the suns sighing
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Categories:
cutout, beach, blue, deep, journey,
Form:
Cathedral Window CutoutMatisse’s “Christmas Eve”
in a procession of candles
Through the church window
in the 20th century of faces
impaled gingerly
in velvet glow
flickering shadows against
the walls
an organ streams
Through the church window
lost cutouts found
humanity gathering
into a moment of flame
Even Godless poets
recall lifelong enigmas
of golden glow
recording the same search
the same wonderment...
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Categories:
cutout, allusion, art, christmas, imagery,
Form:
Imagism
Shadowy TalesShadows are unforgiving,
stark in relief,
dark in infill.
These stiff hollow silhouettes
of gutted entrails
follow us around,
lacking the detachment
to avoid being brutally honest
about our outline shape and
where we've been and why.
We avoid looking back at
the shadowy dark-side behind us
that is plain as day
to those who watch our
tell-tale...
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Categories:
cutout, perspective,
Form:
Free verse