Best Swatch Poems

Glowing Forever


As simple as bringing a flame to a candle
I now hold the match ever tight in my hand
Striking the swatch in an emery fashion
Watching...

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Ghastly sights on the day of the dead frighten me,
Zombie ghouls from the grave will arise from afar
With a howl and a scream sodden ghost...

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Garish should be the undertone
so say the ones who hold the line
desiring only that mutes explain
the breadth of life beyond the pale

until the souls who...

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I sit and watch you everyday
From a bookshelf where I will stay
Not quite like new, patched with a swatch
You everyday, I sit and watch

You used...

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The wind
comes in at night,
bringing with it new ghosts
but I'm wrapped tight in mother's quilt, 
each painstaken swatch stitched by her own hand
She sings a...

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All her belongings fitted into a suitcase and a small carry-on bag.

After 18 years, my helper was going home for good.

During those years, not a...

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It was, perhaps, the perfect place to watch
the storm roll into the eastern boundaries.
Too far inland to be submerged, the swatch
of land was close enough...

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Visual Melodies
 

Fresh evergreens stand beside

 A crisply clear slow moving brook

Reflections of minnows glitter

 In the midday sun’s warm look

 

Bare branches began to...

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Daydreams from the butcher block:

Cannibalistic tendencies require cannibalistic standards. I don't want a fast food consumer. No Sir, no soda pop fed meat for me....

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As soon as I stepped through the doors of the mall
I ran into two old friends John and Paul
They were with two girls the first...

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Fresh evergreens stand beside
A crisply clear slow moving brook
Reflections of minnows glitter
In the midday sun’s warm look

Bare branches began to don
The tiny green leaves of...

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Proxies shall forever 
Urge tender embrace 
Of unified skin swatch
Dark-dripping crimson
Draped on commoners...

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Skipping down the walk on a sunless, foggy day;
a bright red coat surrounded in shades if gray.

In a smoldering mass grave, on a sad and...

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I knew the day will come , yet never realised this soon 
watching you so pale but yet so peaceful 
I knew it in ...

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hard to remember an image as precious as this offering 
the gods must have been in jubilant spirits
jagged edges through out this ocean~view 
the aqua...

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