Best Matting Poems

   time …

drips as color, inked and puddled
minutes like sable bristles, bound
laying down the hours as fading bands of value
what are the shades of a life - of a person?
how do aim and purpose and fallibility
influence what's placed on actuality's canvas?
instance and interval...

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Black –

darkness pitches, naked witches, almond moon of hallowed season
crossing stitches, dogs and bitches dance entranced for wicked reason
powdered sulphur matting hair, licking dirt and twitching praises
sanctify the night in pain, evil stirs and sickness raises

magic black and legion spawned, circling stars of salt and...

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Makes Me Nervous
 
  The busiest highway runs
  as usual but alongside it
  pin drop silence of death
  spreads feathers at Chicken-stalls
  makes me nervous.

   The caged chickens were
   fasting , praying silently
   No...

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He fell one stormy midnight clear,
His feet upon his head,
He deaf of mouth and blind of ear,
All purple, green and red.

He dined politely on a rose,
Then with a speckled hen,
He quickly drew himself a nose,
And put it on again.

He paid the hen all shiny pound,
Then...

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The leaves coated the ground in a tapestry of colour,
strewn around like matting hiding all sorts beneath.
A woven carpet that blanketed the earth with hues
of Autumn colours as slowly they returned to dust.

The trees seeming ten times taller without their cladding,
reaching, stretching high branches stark...

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crossing over…

her chilled breath
caressed my cheeks

no reddening here
just a darker ebony hue

the color collage 
of  foliage

canvassed my eyes
falling rainbow tears

dripping to nourish
mother earth

matting
her joseph’s coat

reflected by scattered rays
peeping through shuttered  skies

the bridge over the river of change
is indeed a delightful crossing...

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Finally, that vicious day was over
At last, my labor was through.
Before I could rest my troubled head
Slowly I knelt calling to you.

Lord Jesus, I am...

“Frustrated by my frailty
Discouraged by my pride,
Aware of my constant failure
 Desperate to you I cry."

“Everything seems so fruitless
No matter what...

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The smell of blood
        awakens me
                from my slumber.
I find myself in the center of a room,
walls splattered with blood
and chunks of what...

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High summer at the Regiment,
Admin Inspection coming around
So they placed a little saluting base
At the edge of the Parade Ground.
A coco matting covered floor
On a stout square wooden base
Which the fatigue party 
Manoeuvred carefully into place.
Now I may have worn a uniform
And been a soldier...

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When you lie at home all day
Watch yourself a waste away
Watching TV shows again and again
Think of places I might've been 
Covered with a blanket, lying in bed
Sweat matting the hair to my head
Can't find a position that seems right
There is no way for me...

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Can you see the darkness, the utter blackness that surrounds me
The only light shinning down from a single street lamp
reflecting off the water on the street
a sad run away story

the black pavement blends in with the sky
the yellow glare is from a street light
the metal...

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Now that no one can escape
      its time to turn it up a notch,
going over to my other “victim”
           I slam her in the chest
restraining her,
then turn to her acquaintance
...

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The clouds
are tinted red
as the sun sets,
  I watch from
    the shade
      of an old oak tree.
The sky 
looks like after
    a nice savage attack,
stuffing from furniture,
      ...

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I don't know 
    Am amazed 
    spider's web self made.

   What a ridiculous !
   You claim live 
    after matting. 

   Serpent 
   behind beauty 
 ...

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From many houses, pots, tubs
I'm begging my words

the alms of poems
I'm begging from-
the stars
sun to moon
star-spangled ship to the space, cosmos
the drop of the snow
the morn breeze of the autumn
smiling spring rose
the flying chirping birds
swimming pond fish
the shyness of new married woman
cats and dogs raining
matting...

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