Gape Poems - Poems about Gape

Before You Were Born

...
There must be 
an entry point
somewhere in the fabric 
of being, perhaps 
an unhealed 
wound in the bark 
of an ancient tree 
deep in a primordial 
forest or gouged 
in the cliff face
of ...

Urn of magic potion

...I fell in an urn of magic potion.
About my locus, I had no notion.
I found myself on a wide, whirly sea.
My boat had holes. From fall, I couldn't flee.

From shores I seemed to have gone far awa...

a match in the dark

...
a ghastly …

prospect ...
the ground torn open before him
a wound in the earth that called to his dark heart
pulled on his better judgement like lead ...
warm, the darkness -
warm and peacef...

The Unknown Room

...I walked into a room and did not know it well
yet, feel I should, for I have been there many times,
not a liminal space, though sometimes this is so.
But this time, oddly, somewhere I should know ...

Life's First Passion

...
    Clouds move in random fashion

        ‘til roused by life’s first passion

           ~ We gape at Heaven’s reaction

  
...

Six-Line Shrug - Modern Art

...
     Petrified zombies march
       past displays of potato starch

     Onlookers stop to gape
       at what’s depicted on their capes  

     The clue connecting all this 
       floats u...

Rivers Jumps Our Banks

...Households unhitch, clapperboard hulls creaking -
the sound of storm-lashed rigging, as washing lines
and telephone wires twist
netting loosening foundations.

Where we once believed roots gripp...

The Hollow City

...(The Hollow City Cycle include:
The Hollow City
I Remember You -- the city speaks
Last One Left)

No footsteps echo on broken stone,
only wind dragging secrets through dust.
The city si...

A Home with a View

...
      I’ve a home with a view
          lawns, bushes trees
      sidewalks, parkways
          an avenue

      I’ve got to tear myself away
          from all that 
      enticing as it ma...

A Pure Mind So Unspoiled By Sinful Thoughts

...Imitation of unmerited personality can be called
envy when its impact disrupts the daily routine
of an individual who's not happy for anything good
given to him by God: is it a mere lack of fortit...

Circus Act

...Underneath the blazing sun
horror widens it’s gape
A merciless ploy to encapsulate gullible minds
It knows you are familiar 
and yet you abandon your truth on the tightrope above 
Trying to main...

The Light Within Earshot at the Gas Station Snack Bar

...
Our oldest light goes by the name cosmic 
microwave background radiation—
CMB for short. She's everywhere: 
fluorescent birdsong of modern offices, 
hum of corner store ice cream cases. 
Have ...

Rising From Ashes

...I was born into darkness, a world full of lies,
Sold by the one meant to shelter my cries.
In the hands of strangers, my worth was defined
By the hunger for drugs, my body confined.

A child tur...

Dazzling Bright Boy

...
A light in my hands, 
Wonder in my eyes, 
No one understands
My glowing surprise! 

Do you see with me, 
As I gape and stare? 
Will you catch for me, 
This fire light I bear? 
...

of poetic reverberation

...I saw him
Well, I actually heard him
Shouting
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