Lacquer Poems

Emotional Voids

...hearts of glass
hurled through air
in pieces

plastic idols
nesting dolls
caned by fear

opaque tears
swept beneath
smiling lacquer...

Heartbroken is Love's Token

...
Hearts must break to earn the token.  
That love is tired and too softly spoken.  
How else can a hurting heart bleed,  
to reveal it’s overlooked and in need?  

Gathering the pieces, startin...

Death Bids Me Welcome

...Death bids me welcome
Into his tended garden
Where quiet plots of bramble clots
House names now long forgotten.

Engravings faded, darkened serifs 
Tower over brighter plaques 
Sooted over gen...

The Gallery, Gala, Larry, Part 2

...Students their little burning harmonies | you compos’d it 
One single gallery | public arras blasé debate re-placed
Sheets just- | cool on clothesline whiskered with wear.
Variousness was it| trus...

A Beast from a Forgotten Land

...In the jungle's heart, where shadows and spirits blend,
A silent hunter, a forest's friend.
Stripes of amber, black and gold,
The tale of power, courage and bold.

Its eyes burn bright, flaming ...

Nutcrackers Last Waltz

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                                    Upon a high, cobwebbed bookcase
                                    there lay a forlorn nutcracker
                                    who once ...

Kintsugi-TB

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Kintsugi —  means “join with gold” — is the Japanese art of repairing broken objects, often ceramic pottery or glass. Traditionally, gold lacquer is used to piece shards together again, creating a ...

From the Earth's Depths

...Written: September 24, 2023
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In the dawn-like haze—a shriek was heard,
An echo so shrewd, yet birdless, oddly slurred 
I...

The Cat Dreams

...The cat dreams,
To whom? To What?
Not at Mount Fuji
That he has never seen
With green eyes.

The cat dreams,
To whom? To What?
Not at the Eiffel Tower,
Too bright,  
Of lacquer and paint,
...

Kintsugi Me

...Last Night was a beautiful night
The fire pit burning bright
Today is full of rain
With barometric pressure pain
Blanket on to keep me warm
While I listen to the outside storm
Hot cup of Joe by...

To Heal With Gold

...To heal with gold
By Michelle Morris
08/12/2022

I felt your brokenness
When you came near
Your light had flickered
And died a little

The death of a child
Is the Universe's pain
For each ...

Grandpa Gave Me a Gift On Christmas Eve

...Twas the night before Christmas and all thru the house
My grandpa's fast at work carving a wooden mouse
In the spirit of St. Nick he bloomed from his heart
And sang holiday cheers and Noel's  from...

Infant Spring Fervour

...Dewdrops stream down boisterous 
children’s freckle-strewn mischievous dials,
as they dash in cartoon costume faux denim
apparel amidst the pale yellow sunlight glare.
Marble stone button twiddle...

Kintsugi

...I thought about Kintsugi this morning while looking in the mirror…feeling old…Kintsugi is the art of repairing cracks and breaks in pottery with lacquer dusted in silver, platinum…and gold.

The ph...

Beautiful Black Girl

...Beautiful Black Girl

Beautiful black girl your shade is divine, your silky lacquer skin looks so rich against mine.  You are so beautiful, in time you will know it, you will be refined.

I lived...

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