Best Velum Poems

For all the planning
and learned preparation
poetry remains part
mystery

a write only dimly solvable

a poet wisely advised to
proudly accept 
all credits, while adhering failures 
to sacrificial muses,...

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SPEECHLESS SPOKEN WORD ARTISTE

So if my vocal folds can’t collaborate to produce sounds to communicate loudly to your beautiful mind that I have an endless...

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My life is very insular, I move from page to page
never straying far from words which prance upon the written stage.

like a sputtering engine my...

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Physical is the coat I wear-out
in the elements – the ephemeral
shell of me, and not the yoke, man's 
embryo of spiritual wealth...longevity of 
experience and...

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Drivel
dribbled from those lips of ours
while climbing streets and chasing cars
peeling back our velum skin
removing duty, tasks again.

Drivel 
trickled from our sanguine lips
reddened by a...

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*original poem follows the Dramatic Monologue

Dramatic Monologue by a Coldcocked Husband

Yes, you know my wife is nuts,
no ifs, but oh her butt.
Mercilessly, I fell hard
for...

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A second hand book shop watches the Sunday rain
beat against a resentful pavement. Its second hand
door opens up its second hand world to second
hand people,...

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I noticed that
 even in death
 lilies held beauty,
 arched to one side,
 white petals
 glistened in the light

There were poems
 in their drooping folds.
...

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Buttermilk, Golden Brown, Crepes
  Soft, Smooth, Farmers Cheese
  Add the Sweet Yellow Raisins
   Small Curd  Cottage Cheese
   ...

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The day seems long
the night longer
waiting
in treacle time,

oozing hours 
drip molasses minutes, 
toffee apple sticky seconds. 
The peculator coffee hisses
as I sit reading the newpaper,

the...

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Buttermilk, Golden Brown, Crepes
  Soft, Smooth, Farmers Cheese
  Add the Sweet Yellow Raisins
   Small Curd  Cottage Cheese
   ...

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inflamed by its sputtering,
cavity muttering-
opened by oaken and metal frame fluttering,
lapsing from pavement and pierced into meat.

uttered uncomfortably, aortas ushering,
sizing in varicose clumps that then...

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Bittersweet, sorrowful, the air tonight tasted.
A gentle breeze swirled around and into me.
With each breath, I drank in the ambiance-
Fragrant, the autumn evening rushed me;
a...

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White wings fly from fingertips.
A white swan held up to the sun
illumines the eye.

Paper flowers velum vanilla
perfumed.
Cupped hands
flowering in the air.

Almost weightless,
almost real,
almost living,

when in...

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The voice is mine and yet not,
I have nurtured it, both goaded,
and placated it,
until its tongue is as liquid as molten
silver.

It is not human, never...

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