The Gist
...A macrocosm lucid
gem mocks trainees
and their ignorance
-jalousies-American
counseled coequals
...French innovators
to state their belief,
it ridicules directly
it was smoked o'er,
gotten t...
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Categories:
jalousies, analogy,
Form: Light Verse
Should Doors Close
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Should doors close, you'll find me awaiting
Harking to aeolian whispers,
Watching the windows for your return,
Sitting in crepuscular stillness,
Should doors close, balconies will open,
C...
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Categories:
jalousies, love, relationship,
Form: Verse
Lute
...Lute
Curved, inviting, light,
it has the look of antique ships,
a galleon bulge of straight-grained woods.
Fretful cat-gut cords
coiled taut by silver screws
above the calibrated neck
concea...
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Categories:
jalousies, arabic, music, silver, smile,
Form: Verse
A Momentary Lapse Re-Post
......a true story
Her house was just a shell, a burnt-out ruin...
standing apart, the other houses still intact
with painted jalousies and window curtains.
She must have fallen asleep, the ...
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Categories:
jalousies, sad,
Form: Verse
A Momentary Lapse
......a true story
Her house was just a shell, a burnt-out ruin...
standing apart, the other houses still intact
with painted jalousies and window curtains.
She must have fallen asleep, the ...
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Categories:
jalousies, fire,
Form: Verse
A Momentary Lapse
......a true story
Her house was just a shell, a burnt-out ruin...
standing apart, the other houses still intact
with painted jalousies and window curtains.
She must have fallen asleep, the cigaret...
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Categories:
jalousies, death, house, house, me,
Form: Narrative
4.2
...Mauve tigers roam
Assiduously down the riverbed.
Roland, my soul’s wanderer,
Is getting the itch again.
Jalousies creak from frames high on the watch towers. Even
Ulysses begged for mercy in the...
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Categories:
jalousies, uplifting
Form: Acrostic
A Momentary Lapse
......a true story
Her house was just a shell, a burnt-out ruin...
standing apart, the other houses still intact
with painted jalousies and window curtains.
She must have fallen asleep, the ...
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Categories:
jalousies, deathhouse, house, me, mum,
Form: Narrative
Fishnets and Convertible Spaceships
...Your eyes spring forth flowers from my soul.
You come to me in dreams,
And as the jogger on the street.
You haunt me as the moon haunts the night sky.
You are the ghostly promise of pure love.
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Categories:
jalousies, loveme,
Form: Free verse
A Momentary Lapse
......a true story
Her house was just a shell, a burnt-out ruin...
standing apart, the other houses still intact
with painted jalousies and window curtains.
She must have fallen asleep, the ...
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Categories:
jalousies, loss, house, house, me,
Form: Narrative