Papery Poems - Poems about Papery

...RED SEA At the mouth I lay splayed blood trickling, slowly dripping into soft mud or red Akashic ink mud of my anus, ink of my sacred septum white flags drench......Read the rest...

...The withering is so very beautiful. Eyes build translucent shells for themselves. there is a falling inward, mouths move beneath appearance, Expressions of mortality falter, as the mind begin......Read the rest...

...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The quaint but cluttered vintage bookstore is filled with tall walls of ancient volumes and stacks of books precariously balanced, making it hard to navigate do......Read the rest...

... on blue-frozen snow small mouse papery rustling ~ path sparkles w......Read the rest...

...I got a text from one of my professors yesterday saying, ‘Please stop by my office at 6 pm tomorrow.’ It didn’t say why. This was the first day after November recess, had I missed something? That nig......Read the rest...

...And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams! Edgar Allan Po......Read the rest...

...Papery feathers strain to take wing. Frills ruffle, mythic masks gnash at the air beautifully belligerent. Plucked, they dally daily between the surfaces of legend, and the finery of a silk-st......Read the rest...

... "As other spirits sail on music, mine, oh my love, swim on your perfume." Charles Baudelaire "Sometimes you find an old bottle from which the soul returns." Charles Baudelaire "Smell is......Read the rest...

...Strewn across a wide plain, sheep bones dazzle in the bright sun. On the horizon, phantoms coalesce then melt away into watery lies. The only sound is the dry, papery whispers of saltbush ras......Read the rest...

...A soft excited glowing sunburst center shows her love to flying things a cheerful strawflower shows love to grasshoppers whose legs zing Papery bracts pose as petals, fooling beetles falling from f......Read the rest...

...A field afire papery petals glow like ruby votive candles a collection of cupped solar flames vowed to shine despite the dew before dawn evaporating any doubt the sun would rise the mist would l......Read the rest...

...The birch tree bends over the abandoned playground its papery thin bark peeling exposing the stark white wood beneath A few brown withered leaves that stubbornly refuse to fall continue clin......Read the rest...

...Lisa, Leong and I were supposed to eat at a sushi place called “Bow Wow”. Lisa and I were coming back from our last class. I covered my face with the back of my hand and yawned as we reached the quad......Read the rest...

...On an empty page, my quill Does not sit to quench Its thirst to lessen this quandary To let, nay make, quintessential Inroads, biding thy quiver Of lexiconical bolts; queuing And firing for......Read the rest...

...What do theologians call a life without events? The lights of my prison-like room dawn before sun's first blush. I open sand-papery eyes as my AI announces the morning. I begin the puppetry o......Read the rest...