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Best Starkness Poems


The Starkness of the Day
when the sun rotates

backwards in the sky

and the blue goes on and on

without the wisp of a cloud

we are in the starkness of the day


when unmeasured time

passes on the hands

of a broken watch only

do we understand when these

days are gone the starkness of the day...

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Categories: starkness, day, imagery, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
The Starkness of Love


   Dulcimer dewdrops
 paint the leafy canvas,
hungry mouthlings bobbing 
   a rambunctious sway 
   from
clear pleasure of impact to receive 
       blessings of the day, 
the celestials milk of lactate rain;
  ...

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Categories: starkness, 6th grade, art,
Form: Free verse

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