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Karin Poems - Poems about Karin


Premium Member To Karin: Brandenburg Gate
Like some dark frail bird she quivered and fluttered there at my door one dark cold Advent night, swearing to return come the new year with a photo of Brandenburg Gate. Arms, hands, fingertips, eyes, then nothing between us but electrified space – her light tread descending the steps – my heart drawn downward by the diminishing sound. Sometimes still my heart is snared between winter a swirling hem and Brandenburg...

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Categories: karin, december, farewell, feelings, lost
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Karin: A Plain Beyond the City
Coal-brown smoke smudged lightly with hesitant fingers into the wet grey sky at the edges, a yellowing of dried grass scattered with copper berries fallen from their vines, a leaf spinning crazily on a breeze, a tentative parting of fingertips and a face turned slightly from mine – a profile obscured by dark hair – and eyes scan and count the pylons for something to do. The...

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Categories: karin, farewell, goodbye, imagery, lost
Form: Free verse



Premium Member To Karin: The Unsent Letter
I called you my Magyar princess because of your smoldering eyes and dark hair but maybe you were just a woman who knew how to disappear while standing still. I got your number from your grandfather five years after you left on a trip to visit the Brandenburg Gate with a promise to return in the spring. A Florida area code, and a man’s voice...

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Categories: karin, farewell, lost love, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To Karin: The 'Touch Me'
It looked just like a coaster— a membrane of soft plastic, yellow, green and cobalt blue, the colors swirling at your touch, like it could feel something too. I did not know ‘til later, that it also reflected you. I thought it just a trinket, a trick of vinyl and hue, given not with coy delight, but offered straight and true. It changed when touched ...

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Categories: karin, beauty, blue, green, lost
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member letter to Karin -
so long ago, I found you, sweet and yet, our tome is incomplete through all the recollections, us a query that still haunts me, thus: what are those things I do not know I've done, to make you hate me so? ...

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Categories: karin, lost love, metaphor,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Oye, Karin - I Will Never Forget
Everyone was gone, and the pool beckoned - one-piece bathing suit, on your perfect petite form ... very broad vertical stripes, just five of red and white. Water...

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Categories: karin, passion, romance, sensual, soulmate,
Form: Free verse

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