Best Dead Letter Poems

"Dead Letter Queues"


In the In-Between time 
the letters materialise 
words lost, suspended
in the Forever Gloaming


(Lovejoy-Burton, August 2018)

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the evening was a beautiful blue
when i got home from my workday

i went to the mailbox, retrieved a pile
and quickly perused the stack

i saw it...

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somewhere, close to the very end
to protect, a lover pretends,
faking what is long gone
cutting my losses and moving on
we take what we can get from...

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I open it, leaves are stuck
prick it, no movement
burn it, expels fire defiantly
speak to it, no response
sit on it, no complain
What a dead letter this...

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Departed poems in a gray post-dated heaven
clatter wings together like hens in a jailers coop.
Words never die, they bury themselves in
heaps of dry leaves, distant...

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rainbow sparked haiku
picture without metaphor
dead letter address

Brian Johnston
December 13, 2015...

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Chounds like 
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Chounds like 

 Eye chased mye deer into the rough the golf was tough and leathery the...

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Eternal God is the author of Sacred Scripture
The divinely revealed realities
Which are contained
Presented in the text of Sacred Scripture
Have been written down under the inspiration...

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“Unwritten” 

intermission 
breezes 
in 

8 ball 
pockets the 
dead letter queue

silhouette 
seen through 
windows veiled, still

breathing

secrets 
kept, for the 
chain letters

road trip
stories,

unwritten

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022)


“Something About...

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An Unlively Very Stiff (upper Lip) Masquerade
(any resemblance between averred one laid
to rest and yours truly...purely coincidental
regarding unnamed person liberated 
into heavenly glade!)

though innocently youthful...

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...industrial machinations insyc – 
   dynamited, sheared, sound blasted to rob 
   (point blank with no criminal sentence), 
  ...

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I feel like I'm torn,
Cut open and bleeding,
But there's nothing I can do 
'cause you're all that I'm seeing.

I see your arms wrapped around her,...

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The past has always been a foreign country,
step four decades into the future
and you will be an alien to your ancestors.

Many mothers have lost their...

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Tarry not, worry not, hurry not
When fountains of fears
Overwhelm the dot and clot
Congealing in tears

That rain rivers
On your serene court
As hope shivers and quivers
At the...

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Repeat, remember, re-rehearse, recall,
embroider the memory, live it again.
Various variations repeating a theme.
The pain come back,. repeat,
yet the dead and gone spring up more strong.

Images...

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