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Clinkers Poems

Fall of the Rainbow Bridge

...All is burning, cinders and ash
		flakes float in black rain,
		falling on a ground
			of clinkers and flinders.

The hand of ruin traces sigils
		of chaos and strife
		on broken city walls,
...

Categories: clinkers, surreal,
Form: Free verse

Roger's Waist

...Roger’s waist was the linchpin 
when we launched “The Rose”
off Garrison’s Cove on Bailey Island.

He let out the rope around his belt
as she slid off the trailer
at high tide.  We weren’t youn...

Categories: clinkers, death, death of a
Form: Free verse

Dungeness

...copper burns across an endless sky
competing caws claim salt, surf and sand 
sailing high above slowly sagging carcasses 
long forgotten at the edge of the world 

buckled rails swim over a s...

Categories: clinkers, beach, bird, boat, feelings,
Form: Free verse

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And Then I Wriggled Free

...Hooked on love
I wept for the serenity
I felt I could no longer have
In all probability for eternity

Conspired with Cupid led
Assailants my peace of mind to steal
As disfigured on my aching b...

Categories: clinkers, poems,
Form: Free verse

Cupid Clinkers and Blinkers

...Love in its majesty and spendour
Visits hearts kind and unkind
Waxing her odour and ardour
To help the love-lost to find

Little spaces, loving faces
Enamoured enough
To rise from surfaces
Wh...

Categories: clinkers, poems,
Form: Free verse

Landslide

...
Landslide
Avalanche; executing terrible
approached unexpectedly and
Made everything despair;
Torn out, worn out
Making cry and mourn
Landslide came;
Vulnerability inc...

Categories: clinkers, grief, seasons, song, sorrow,
Form: Free verse