Detail Poems - Poems about Detail

A Flaw In Creation (Basso Continuo) She joked about him often taking time to mention him by changing her voice to mimic him. She allowed her view of him to dictate the pace of there relationship. Once afella tried to get her attention by wearing something wear most of him was visible. She and her friend smiled and she said the words "hide my feelings:...

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The haibun can be a standard(where haiku etc follows the prose) or afterword (where prose follows the haiku) or prose envelope (prose para haiku,para) verse envelope(haiku prose haiku) or interlaced (chorus, verse, chorus) or verse sequence (haiku,prose,haiku,haiku etc) a haibun ABSTRACTION The soft yellow streaked the terra cotta,shadowing the speckled sallow saffron a bluish buff upon the cochineal;brilliant...

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Nobody really likes a short-form read a small screed about the mind-shattering infinitude of the universe or the endless grandeur of nature - I mean not really. We must move along, be willingly captured by a more comprehensible minutiae. The ordinary is the realm of the poet, let the mystics ponder that big stuff. For it is we who make our omelets just...

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*** DRAWING YOUR DAY *** Well, wake me, then, before it’s Time to sleep, so I may eat Some bites of cheddar cheese (A delicious catalyst for lively dreams); And,too, tell me, please, Every detail of your day, because I Will, draw it all — to treat the eye — In the corners of a flipbook (at least I’ll try). I’ll depict...

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He sits quietly on a cargo hatch, Patiently watching deck apes Secure rat guards to hawsers. They make his job a little easier. There’s no requesting liberty. Not even the thought of it. The Bos’n won’t approve. It’s been entered in the deck log, He’s a ship’s cat. He's always on the watch list. He never goes ashore....

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seductive sensuous enigmatic ambiguous prolific & precocious breakfast pieces peopled in detail pin-sharp accuracy & ...

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Laying on the floor beneath the window, staring up at the painted plaster, little cracks run through the goosebumps in the paint. I can read where the wall is hollow where it is brick, by running the tips of my nails across its gibberish braille. In certain spots, the paint is almost smooth and slightly darker, polished by years of rough feet, the...

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This is the third time I’ve done it this year to be honest I feel a pride in being picked to do it but the very thought brings forward a tear. Dress uniform ironed and ready, creases sharp as a knife brasses gleaming cap badge straight its time to commemorate not a death but a soldier’s...

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Think, it is a fix amount unequally distributed But how, since labor contributed For commodity, growth, and reserved pile What explains the one sided dispersion? Not rent or taxes, not expanded hire, but guile One earns more than thousands in the labor equation So consolidating now, peasants fortune contracted Machines long invented has left their task unaffected But the streets are bigger, wider...

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Number Four two four one Cars racing by stealing Images of consequences Entertaining clowns collecting their trash “That could be me” clicking tongues chirp Four two four one just smiles Those were his thoughts Before...

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No, no, no. You still don't understand That my hands tend to tremble and you don't even think about A butterfly's thoughts in it's last moments You don't pause to consider the colors of a tree And until you do, you'll never understand me....

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Oooops!!! I didn't mean to.. That's ok. I should have knocked. Yes...you should have but ....awkward to say the least You're still there I'm still here Why?!? I...I don't know... habit maybe Maybe... Yes... I used to be able to... not knock Yea... What happened? A word... friend....

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Not one pursuit but led to disappointment The system was designed to fail Corrupted judge has tendered resignation The horror lurked behind the veil Another's cruelty fueled his vindication The true believer's cause for pain Described to him in full blown cosmic detail The dronings of a world insane...

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Oh Depressed world Dont fail me now every ones gone and coping i dont now how oh depressed world shine some light on my views of life tell me why i shouldnt use this knife oh Depressed world Dont touch me the way others do Raping me of my dignity and innocence as a child oh depressed world i'll keep talking till my face bursts...

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Gentle caresses sweep my skin with creeping tenderness, devouring every curve of my body and feeling its sizzling melt against your skin. Your loving gaze enters my soul striking away all attempts to keep the padlocked heart and mind shuttered from any harm. Your finger tips tantalize my womanly form raising delightful awareness. You lead my chin towards you brush your nose and lips over...

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