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Carapaces Poems - Poems about Carapaces


An Empty Carapace
...Along the waters edge I strolled, as wavelets wet my toes Rockpools filled with hidey holes where wary crabs had chose To wait for the coming tide to venture out once more, Hiding from the h......

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Categories: carapaces, nature, sea,
Form: Rhyme
She Is
...A dry wind lifts a damp fringe of gray hair. She is wrinkled, her mouth sunken over dentures. She's as thin as dust but glows on the edge of her ruin. The earth aches. It once made love......

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Categories: carapaces, poetry,
Form: Blank verse



Premium Member Maudlin Mary
...Modeled by the skilled and clumsy hands of artists and artisans into an ideal state of she-ness, a penniless waif appears on a stool last week a stranger called her Mona Lisa. Statu......

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Categories: carapaces, allusion, symbolism, woman,
Form: Ekphrasis
The Cape
...I should just let you go But it feels a little like Holding your beautiful face under the water Watching your reflection flicker into your last breath I should just Summon suitcases to pack ......

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Categories: carapaces, friendship, loss, me,
Form: Quatrain

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