Overlays Poems - Poems about Overlays

Christmas at the Kids Table

...red linen table cloths with white lace overlays
sprinkles of confetti shaped like snowflakes
evergreen plaid napkins rolled into a Santa napkin holder
Holly berry china, only brought out one time ...

Erratically-Tossed Sequins

...Erratically-tossed sequins
   Mark the places of night's stadium -
A netherworld of colored stones
   For the spry flights of cherubim -

And Jehovah - madman or genius -
   I cannot quite disc...

An Elegy for TikTok: My Battery is Low and it’s Getting Dark

...
I close my eyes, and the FYP still flickers.  
A faint grid overlays my internal vision:  
profile icons, captions crawling sideways,  
the heart button pulses in phantom rhythm.  

Swipe—  
...

Overlays

...Overlays
Are the seeming
Maps and filters
Stories and concepts
Memories and expectations
Portraying and explaining
What's happening..
Overlays may
Seem to hide
Nothing at all
Appearing as 
...

Street Souls

...How did he, she, they, and them come to be? 
Diminished, reduced, and ignored in society

Relegated or maybe delegated to busy city streets and desolate byways
Street souls somberly paint landsca...

Yesterpeople

...stair board creek
the house long empty
. . . echoes
stale shuffling
shadows to the sound
of overlays 
drained
the house bled
its final drops of her

merged, she
with watchers
faces trappe...

Languish

...The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
Mahatma Gandhi

         ...

Iconographic a Freed Verse

...ICONOGRAPHY
optical
  overlays
tangible
in
metabolic
  manifestation
of conscious
significance
refined
in
the bizarre
 appendage
of
allusion
to
  the infinite
appearance
of simulari...

Glimpse

...
 My heart a pouch of rich wine overlays yours
a drop of blood spilled over an arum lily
waits with longing intense, retains no tears
as it remembers its cringes of final fear when i...

Ekphrasis Snapshot Aertsen

...opticlal overlays
to emphsise
a still iife...

Portrait

...Paint me blue like the sky
rainbow's smile; thunder's cry
clouded curtains rife with rain
till shroud is lanced and bluebirds fly again
     Wistful moods in mahogany frames
     melancholy pain...

The Red Turtle's Gift - Redrawn

...The “Red Turtle’s” Gift

God's Muse both saves and offers Grace to sailors lost at sea! 
His ‘Reasoned Love' has Seasons with "Red Turtle's" buoyancy
that floats or steers...

Happening 119 Ear Candy

...quietness
        surrounds,
         overlays
the evening,
      thoughts
      come to mind,
becoming
larger,
louder
        drowning
        out
        all else:
so
peaceful
       ...

Over Hill, Over Heather

...Over hill, over heather
   Creeps winter weather
A thin mantle of snow
   Overlays the hedgerow

Wind whistles through trees
   As tiny twigs freeze
Creatures retreat to their holes 
   In me...

A Gentle Touch of Autumn

...The autumn comes, an open book
To satisfy our hungry eyes
But, sometimes things can't just be read
Not like a book upon a shelf
We can't just look, …..they must be felt
With every strain of ...

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