Long Voile Poems

You’ll be a man tomorrow, child, yes,
If you respect animals and pristine nature,
If you don’t kill elephants for ivory,
If you don’t kill the whales for soap,

You’ll be a man if you can stop time
If you...

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North Richland Hills grew a rainbow I wanted to hold in my hand
Wand for wishing I don’t know what to reach-ask for?
Plethora is sunshine below the bow along your Texas land
Donned a different approach—your rainbow...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s The Cat Sat on the Mat, La chatte s’est assise sur la natte by T. Wignesan

(Unless I’m sorely mistaken, this’s EM’s first published poem: Poetry Magazine/Poetry Foundation, Chicago, February 1959, pp....

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An occasional gust of wind will lift the translucent white voile curtains and then drop them like a child losing interest. The effect is like flash photography, a burst of sudden sunlight that paints our...

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With my bedspread on the floor again I wandered through the night
To where those ink stained messages were written black on white,
And I struggled in suspension, as my dreams were transposed there
Like thoughts of sleeping...

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The Swan King.

Fine fibre lashes flicker, flutter.
Sailing trance-like on warm reflected glass,
Royal icing sculpture, still Lily-White feathers.
Ripples giggling, Dragon Flies dipping,
Sticklebacks cha-cha clumsily within own shadows.
as pulsing circles steady...peaceful.
Lilac Water-lilies whirl-curl open,
as perfumes whoosh! Midges...

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Moonlight is my favored language
It  shades  aglow,
Though cold night etches  wilted boughs
Raking the muddied fields--
Lean willows change into argent gold:

In dripping furrows of hollowness
Fragile seed stalks
Glimmer against pale weeds
As tassels of orb’s...

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Rose and crimson-hued petals look ethereal
In the pouring chromatic wizardry darkness
Golden silken colors are included in the boreal
Every red drop of a vivid array, cut starkness.

In the pouring chromatic wizardry darkness.
Rejuvenating the gaze of magnificent seawater 
Every...

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The horizon is sleek :
       No sails coming
       No boat slips
>     And I remember
That you embarked, joyful
for this distant...

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Each Crystal shape fell white and clear
spreading a film of shimmering snow
like a curtain of voile draped from heavens door
on earths patchwork quilt below

Softly silently swirling
as busy clouds darkened the blue
and each snowdrop covered the...

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Maiden alone on the misty beach
Dressed in fine voile like fabric and hat
Is your desire for your sailor a miraculous feat
Wishing him home and close to your heart

The waves are slow and gently crest
Clouds are...

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A thousand dots of  bulbs flutter wildly
exploding into my summer’s  redness
to gather awed murmur upon these lips, 
my amazement tossed beyond open sills—

How I watch you glitter from a dance
as  late afternoon...

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In the center of a fresh pageant,
she throttles like a mythical woman
quick to dance among open flowers,
whirling like a hundred stars
with curves round and breasts oyster pink
as the trees, ovules, candles in her eyes
open the...

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A trellis of leaves flutters so naturally, 
reams hanging free… timeless in a swirl
on the curving breasts of night. And they dance,
prance without restraint
onto altitudes of orbital light,
glistening through their
 russet-gold flesh…

Somehow, these leaflets enter...

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A warm breeze gently lifts the white voile
I watch it dance from across the room where I lay
Half awake, and recovered from yesterday’s toil 
I’m awakened to the smell of an early summer’s day

Honey suckle...

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When you see a white sail in the harbor of Brest,
A sail under a burning sun,	
It’s a nagging sail,
She has not the tranquility of a sail on the Nile,
Her mind is not at peace, her...

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Listening to your heartbeat
I lie with my head on your chest 
Voile curtains softly billowing in the breeze from the open window
Ecstasy still flowing through our veins 

Lately we have become much closer
A true friendship...

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