Best Identikit Poems
Patron SaintCold Morpheus snowflakes descended all night
You blinked them away with amphetamine tears,
A veil so defiantly, sugary white
When the whole sleeping world disappears;
For who will remember your un-ravaged face
When you stood like a child at the edge of the park?
You may leave no particular trace
As you...
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Categories:
identikit, death, life, people, sad,
Form:
DormitoryThese are photographs of my village
Taken over a hundred years ago
The streets look just the same
As those I used to know
When Fifty or more years later
That village was my family home
And i wandered them as a child
With streets and fields to roam.
They show...
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Categories:
identikit, change, family, memory, nostalgia,
Form:
Rhyme
Field and HedgerowLet's entertain no doubt. This book was ,
but birthdays come around, and must be feted.
Five brothers and one sister celebrated
each other's anniversaries. Close-knit
would hardly do us justice. When you fit
into the world around you, predicated
on shared assumptions, fine. I knew we...
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Categories:
identikit, nostalgia,
Form:
Sonnet