Best Pewter Poems

Patty Potter bought a pot of pewter.
Yes, Patty Potter bought a pewter pot.
Patty Potter paid a pretty penny
For the pretty pot of pewter Patty got....

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November's bright dawn

mirrors a slate colored lake

beneath silver clouds

manifesting hope's glimmer

on this polished pewter day


Written 11/8/13 for Francine Roberts' Tanka Me Fall or WinterContest...

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Like an eye through a keyhole
the moon's eclipse obfuscates
sun's white incandescence,
turns the solstice to morgue-gray.

As mist rises from a charcoal lake
laced with ice's torn edges
minions of leafless oak and alder
witness in slate silence
winter's pewter ghost,
floating phoenix-like
above July's embers
when water shimmered with indigo, 
rippling tangelo butterflies...

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in shades of silver
                        when heavens and land entwine -
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                                       On heavy pewter clouds I rise
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Dishwater creeks are iron rails in the cold light.
The sky is thick
with the muted warnings of exhausted banshees.
Harken little sparrows
for bells in toll booths peel in their empty boxes.

The farms are lost, the fields have drowned,
cattle wander, levitating just above
a ghostly ground.
Wade we all, eye...

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Firm brazen and tempting to boot,
subtle and elegant.
Well defined shapely and haunting
void of color yet as colourful as they come.
Bound for parting red
beckoning with wanton,
A kiss a simple kiss perserved
forever in heaven.
Bound for bliss....

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