Newsprint Poems - Poems about Newsprint

Thirteen

...I found her as a whispered line in an editorial
stuck on the silk folds of a silver jubilee
like regret.

She had bled once in a different continent
A red thread pulled taut at thirteen
Doctors...

Dream-like Quality

...What is to be known of the honey comb?
A frightening look at overcrowding at home.

She comes to this tribal gathering in robes,
wearing slippers, newsprint on her thumb.

Affection awaits the ...

Room 2-A

...He watched her through the rusted window grilles;
While chalk dust danced in streams of morning sun;
His trembling hands left prints upon the desk wood;
The ceiling fans cut through the province h...

Poetry

...Poetry expression,
of fragile anorexic bodies in search
of affable systems
and psychotherapists
from beyond the garden.
Crepuscular foggy mangrove frames
that dilute the mournful search
for th...

Just For Laughs- Episode5

...Degree Holder Rantings:
I want to put my passport size photo on my degree paper. So that people can be seeing that it's truly my degree!

In five years I managed to bag a degree. Now, I want non-d...

Fearing Father

...There in the corner of the living room 
on a loveseat meant for two 
now only resides one
there he sits, by a warm fireplace
its occupant a man 
a man have I known only as a father
and as a man...

Old Pulp

...It comes wrapped up in clear mylar,
like the ones comic people use,
insides faded, creased and yellow,
big red letters boast of the west,
small rips and tears from ancient hands,
and the collect...

Beaten Down

...Beaten down for centuries
Splattered in newsprint for all to see

It has been that way ever since
they came from Africa on hollowed ships

Enslaved, raped, hanged, broken
Traded for sins unspo...

Cora's Clothesline

...What softness in silence amidst the cacophony of a spin cycle world war.
Lying next to your glow in sleep's stillness, careful of your bandaged hand.
Watching your breath enter and leave, the rise ...

Extra Extra Read All About It Slam

...Extra , Extra

Read all about it

I took out Add Space

To Crow Lyrical

Boom back from Self-Imposed sabbatical

So welcome to my Title Shot

At the Big Show 

Or heaven forbid

Criti...

The Night Soil Man - Part One

...              The Night Soil Man

			I

		Nothing sticks to-get-her like turds
                          No border line nor skin to cross
		Condescension's never a case for loss
		High birt...

Her Own Self-Imposed Purgatory

...folded into her 
own crinkled
wrinkled

newsprint self, 
delight and enthusiasm rapidly 
dissipate

Torn pieces of herself
languish
in her own self-imposed 
purgatory

joyless, she sees ...

Boxes

...Each box holds its secret.
Old memories, dreams that died. 
The sum of every promise-
the dividends and sighs.

Paper, cloth, and pottery-
a postscript of our prime.
Wrapped in yellow newsprin...

A Casual Observation

...It was not that she was the only woman in the group, when mingling precariously beneath the bronze figure of William Booth, or her classic stance, when placing saintly, the newsprint covered bottle t...

The Dunmurry Incident

...THE DUNMURRY INCIDENT

There’s a big row going on in Dunmurry
And the whole place has come to a stop
There’s a war going on with the girl who makes cakes
And the bird in the newspaper shop

Th...

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