Best Sinewed Poems

He just appeared to me, like wispily curling 
Chimney smoke, 
One grim and early morning in the very midst of 
Decembers briefest days, on the...

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A priest once told me that the lump
on my hand was a ganglion,
a fortress of fat besieged by health.
At last it burst and the hand...

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For more than forty years he mustered horses to the yard,
Reminding all the younger blokes “You’ve ‘gotta’ stay on guard,
For even decent broken horses have...

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Blizzard, Blizzard Everywhere

Frozen branches scratch against the window. 
Snow flakes flash like daggers through outside lights. 
Frigid wind comes howling down the chimney. 
Pine trees...

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1	A plume of dirt and grime envelops sky;
		The hellish slug of gas does creep along.
		It casts an orb three hundred stories high
		Over the Sun and...

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My veins now spill forth scarlet waters,
Rent by serrated silver teeth.
Like Her breast sinewed all life,
Fervoured my wrist, when She jilted me...
Repleted by once Her...

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Olga Scheps embodies Chopin's Piano Concerto n° 1

           For a pianist who ponders her prey

The...

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Creeks in your heart flower the moss that stagnates
blood is red rubied and frozen dead
it is protoplasmic is my guess
rooted deep check with floss
slights and...

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SPRING - LOVE    TRANSFORMATION



His river-bed flows in love-warmed lands
But when it’s shelled with loneliness frigid,  
(That isolation brings in empty ...

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Oh come with me ye boys and girls;
And what stops, I ask, the youth and the old?
Come ye of all  age and gender,
I'll lead...

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Chapter..........1..........Part..........2..........1b.

To the right,
where God's light had shone bright,
Warrior Queen,
know your beast is come, 
all may not be lost,
he comes from his land of endless night,
indeed,...

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BEGIN 
AGAIN
It all began
with a torch, 
then a touch:
—from pale, lustful glances—
—of a burning desire—
—to muscles sinewed—
…then the whining 
of an unwanted child…

Brother Sole!
You've abandoned...

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mohair grips
as certainty slips
away beneath the covers

blanket
heavy as sleep
recedes
sinewed lovers

breath
escapes blush lips
sense
fingertips

hush
touch lingers
caressing
fingers...

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Time will catch us by surprise, reach out with greedy talons 
scratching moments from our eyes. Bucolic broccoli lives. 
Born again Christians, prophets all. ...

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The tanned brown leather is stretched impossibly taut atop the battle drums.
A thousand sinewed warriors beat their war cries as one.
The thunderous pounding echoes across...

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