Dog Eared Poems - Poems about Dog Eared

...Her face is a clock I know by heart, laugh lines like sunbeams, worry wrinkles like pencil marks from all the times she erased my fears. Her eyes are forget-me-nots, blooming blue even on cloudy......

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...a practiced smile on her face a mother’s oenomel breath puffs wind under gossamer wings reminiscent of the translucent wings of green lacewings— mistaken for a pest, but beneficial— to strike ......

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...In smoky halls where echoes groan, They carved the truths in tempered stone, Yet none recall the scribe who wrote, A chap in boots and mismatched coat. His quill was plucked from harpy's wing, ......

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...I still see my mother sitting at the kitchen table copying out her favorite recipes from the Women’s Weekly magazine. With pen in hand, she’d carefully write the recipe, word for word in her no......

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... Self Analysis Miracle man 1/31/2025 I’m like an old book that sits on a shelf, Dog eared pages reveal things about myself. my pages are yellowed and worn from my years, some chapter......

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...A cigarette A dog-eared, tattered book Worn as me And the tired clock Tick Tick Tick Time unyielding The hand on my shoulder Recognition Comfort My old friend......

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...[An Autumn kitchen a crucible of y e a s t and y e a r n i n g] Samantha kneads dough with determined hands, she hears Hank's cry—"Vi vi an"—a phantom yeast in the air Her wor......

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... Written: November 12, 2024, for — Glenn Hughes Sponsored by: Robert James Liguori, inspired by the song “Let America Be America Again” ______________......

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...Euridice, Euridice daughter of mortals, sworn to divine; the bell tolls, the bell rings “I’m sorry, I miss you” Orpheus turns; Euridice. the unmade sheets, dog-eared pages stacked, dishes s......

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...I cannot die tonight I dog-eared a book Of pages I haven't perused You know how long that took? Scent of pages Frayed and yellowed Always get me Calm and mellowed The spine cracked and worn ......

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...Unstain As I reach for fresh paper In the hopes to start over I dog-eared that chapter Yellowed in time Seeped in tea Sepia to the tee You stained me Like old photographs From distant m......

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...Today (Director): Lights up on the stage of Now, Where Past and Future take their bow. Yesterday, Tomorrow, come forth and speak, Show us how time's voices peak. Yesterday: I am the scri......

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... "The Stain Crusaders" Plath left the pages long ago and Bacharach’s Blue-on-Blue is an ineffectual softer numb-shade-of-Blue dear green green Anthropocene this m......

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... Tucked away right at the back of my husband’s bedside cabinet lies a brown leather wallet The money is long gone but to him it contains something far more precious ... My bus......

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...She found some mementoes stored in a box before the new owners came to change the locks. An assortment of items almost forgotten now partly hidden under protective cotton. The items were in her l......

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