Concrete Poems | Concrete Examples

She snaps like a brine tendon, spilling embryo chords across the basalt shelf. Tongues of nacre split her sides, each vertebra strung with gravid silence. Kelp-blind, she threads the continental rift, her fingernails seeded with unfinished continents. Magma foams in the pouch of her pelvis, grinding up vowels like crushed coral....

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Hail nails the skin. Wind stabs the spine, the mountain stretches, breath freezes the tongue, Snow visible on the summits High-altitude crumbling cracked hands claw at dry stone, Paper thin air sharp, jagged edges. Bald Eagles circle overhead Alpine sky, dry and broken— no more Earth Day vegetation Cherry Creek scrapes the sand She lifts the bedpan Chapped gloss superstar lips Cocoa fur, stained by cigarette smoke and...

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Moist sheets tossed aside soaked pillows Side by side She was wet Dime sack and tree rings Green sight meet brown peepers Plumb late April Boreal Plains humidity Abittor Unami eau de cologne Thin plain pink blanket on the window Air conditioner recirculating Salmon rays preen her face Noon spring afternoon the rain stopped the sun peeked in Bare cucumber blooms sticky seeds Hanging over pickled The...

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A Shining Flower Vase ...

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"Arrogance, a harmful disease, Never keeps human souls at ease ...

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The Sands of Time ...

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The fire crackles—I take the heat, but my hands pass through my frozen skin. ...

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Another daughter, another day. Another daughter another day At 6 her life was taken away. Another day another daughter, from her there will be no more laughter. Her mother’s addiction is no fiction. She chose a life of drugs and living with thugs. She sold her daughter. From Joshlin there will be no more laughter Her big beautiful green eyes will never blink again. Her...

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My hushed song begs for a refrain, I need a traveling companion. Could do a trip by myself, but it isn’t half the fun. Let’s fill an hourglass! We could mix our media, ...

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Wedding dress rides bicycle. She cracked ribs staring in my window. Crocodile teardrops jail cell. Peat shale lignite. ...

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