Metaphor Imagism Poems

Police lady kneels in prayer for peace* against echoing bombshells
Babe sleeps midst quietude inside mother’s womb.

*Philippians 4:7 ...The peace of God, which passeth all understanding,...

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coral sunset warm
mother's fish curry

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attic
childhood memories dusted

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if petrichor were petaled 
jasmine-scented night 

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broken cistern
wafer-thin heart

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fast city life
smoky haze

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23rd March 2023...

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Neighbor's gossip carried like stones in the wind.
 Glass houses shatter.

3/22/23
Contest: Write Bantus Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Suzanne Delaney...

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Spider Plants
Twirling, striped summer dresses....

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a hibernating bear
          in the dead of winter
during the day,
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Today there are no rubber ducks, no flawless hues, 
To hide behind, as we once did.

This day is dark, and gray and dreary,
Air thick with...

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fractured; the angry march
to I’s nexus

red, not gold, tracks.. wired to
perfect black

catastrophic chiroptera
see this cornucopia -

what plenty?...

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WILLOWS

Willow rise and flourish —
A verdant contrast
To summer’s sun-blanched sky —
Lifting your branches ever high,
But then curving, draping 
In arcs on down, with your leaves
So...

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cascading waterfall
     of moments
            slow
     ...

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MID-SPRING

It is mid-May,
Mid the welcome of spring’s changes all
Over the norther hemisphere;
Amid still growing joy with strolls through
Parks and fields, admiring the all
  ...

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C A T

This intensive cat
   — with night-gray fur —
Steps out wary
   — as if the grass
    ...

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Light lives within lines of explored inquiry
As living light lines inquire exploration

The line of exploration resonates within living light

Living light resonates within line inquiry

As living...

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birds fly unaware of the danger of the weather.
from their perspective they may not realize
the roofs that shelter us cloistered
trapped in wooden or cement crates
from...

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Miss Ocean wears her blue-green dress,
Sprinkled with tiny crystals beads
That sparkle in the morning sun.
She shakes her ruffled petticoats of white
And shows off for the...

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A commotion in the heart
like a strong gust of wind!
A tingling sensation in the heart, 
as if current flown through veins..
My dreams seems flying high,
Like...

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