poem number 10 from saltmilk
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… do you love me, woman
it is cloudy in this street
as that sandalwood perfume
stretching between our arms
here everything of it is gone
with the floods and good
you...
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Categories:
illustrate, anger, angst, anxiety, character,
Form: Free verse
Angelic Sulphur
...Angelic Sulphur
Angelic sulphur streaming downward on a glistening ray of light
Essence of daybreak imbues a radiant effigy of hope
Culmination of atmospheric shimmering and sk...
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Categories:
illustrate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Oblivion’s Comfort
...I wake to the desert, talking to the wind;
its voice is dry and muffled.
Sand cuts my skin as I walk;
nowhere feels like a place I belong to.
The seeming figs glow like a distant fire.
My feet...
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Categories:
illustrate, allegory, dark, endurance, imagination,
Form: Free verse
Passing Through The Moment
...Passing Through The Moment
Aesthetic communion for an artist in a ghetto
Prosthetic student union that is only there for the power show
Anaesthetic ex-communion for a doctor who does not want ...
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Categories:
illustrate, life,
Form: Rhyme Royal
Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
...Atmospheric Elocutions For Surviving Armageddon
Elocution lessons for the morality police
Persecution of those not callously elite
Convolution of the elongation of the technique
Revolution f...
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Categories:
illustrate, life,
Form: Rhyme
Passion For Writing
...Passion For Writing
Soothing Words.
Pen glides across the silk paper.
A passion for writing.
Ironically the next line.
With instrumental music in the back ground.
Calming as rain falls.
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Categories:
illustrate, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Night Tears
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Skies sparkled with snow diamonds drifting through
the magic that surrounded the effervescent darkness.
The tulle breath of the forest spirited the moonglow
in a spritely capricious demeanor an...
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Categories:
illustrate, fantasy, humanity, night, sad,
Form: Free verse
Death Entwined in Living Vines
...Something dreadful is reflected in this scene
Could be she's seen death in a horrid dream, or
perhaps a relapse of an affliction or addiction
has left her crestfallen, in an insentient state
with...
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Categories:
illustrate, betrayal, dark, death,
Form: Elegy
Heaven Turned to Hell, Then Hell Turned to a Heaven
...What's man that heaven turned to hell
in Eden's garden? It's a tale,
as old as time before the flood,
before Cain spilled Abel's blood.
Subtler than murder, the neighbor
grows rich against th...
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Categories:
illustrate, america, bible, fate, god,
Form: Couplet
Part Time Lover
...H e a r t ~
a museum of mosaic mysteries
of handwritten manuscripts
tattooed with crimson needles
from acrylic sunsets,
when dusk cradles
the obsidian chambers of celestial havens,
homing...
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Categories:
illustrate, crush,
Form: Free verse
MY FORMS 4 of 5 kuhlmann 2009
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KUHLMANN my kisses tristich HAPPENING
From Inspiration:idea,impulse,births:
a poem
A BRIAN STRAND FORM 4x5 (2009)
m.youtu...
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Categories:
illustrate, poetry,
Form: Tristich
THE VOICES OF STRIVE
...The Sound of Blackness
Echoes of Achievement that surround in surpassing opposition
Breaking down boundaries and climbing high mountains with
All the strength and endurance
The aroma of Forefath...
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Categories:
illustrate, appreciation, career, courage, creation,
Form: Free verse
Time a Construct of Control
...Time a Construct of Control
We were always taught from very young,
be sure to be ready & so on,
never late never wrong,
to consider time as our friend
this blasé thinking hasn't stopped, ...
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Categories:
illustrate, analogy,
Form: Prose Poetry
Dressed to Disguise
...Energy
A favored term
For a closer approach
To that which cannot
Be approached..
A story which
May illustrate that
All words are
Dressed to disguise......
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Categories:
illustrate, words,
Form: Light Verse
KUHLMANN SONNET paraphrase
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NOTE:This is my dynamic paraphrased translation into English of one of the 6227020800 possible variation on this sonnet 41 to illustrate what Kuhlmann intended .The complete 50 sonnets (in old Ger...
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Categories:
illustrate, tribute,
Form: Sonnet
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