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how …
how many odes have been composed
for the sake of the human eye?
since humans first etched papyrus
or chiseled stone
or painted cavern facades by firelight
the magnificence of the visu...
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Categories:
epicanthic, analogy, beautiful, beauty, feelings,
Form: Free verse
Cat's Eyes
...Your epicanthic folds were my undoing.
Your rosebud lips enticed.
Your morning moon-face was my awakening;
long gone now from these eyes,
but love has not hidden its face behind clouds,
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Categories:
epicanthic, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Markov Chain Reactions
...It’s 5pm and sunny in Ohio, 40 degrees
and dropping,
by dusk it will be grey turning to red
then black.
Where is the oyster shell now?
The heavenly picture
of a pale s...
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Categories:
epicanthic, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Once I Was Prince - Part One
...for Granny Letchumi (b. fin 19th C. - d. 1978)
Once i was a prince in your highbeamed palm-thatched house
timber and stone
of hardened mud and cold green shiny cement
in your village ribbed wit...
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Categories:
epicanthic, family, day, me,
Form: Free verse