Papery Poems - Poems about Papery

...Oh! How I despise dawn’s blushing optimism and dried hydrangea blooms sepia skinned and papery thin. Humdrum hands beat doldrums drum. Why won’t the summer solstice light this darkness? A gnawi......

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...In the middle ages these roughed and scuffed decades between newborn crocus snow-melt-nursed and dried hydrangea blooms sepia-skinned and papery thin I earned the right to wear sapphires and bur......

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... On spewing wave, our departing ride Crazed currents crack, an azure slide Freedom mingles in sea foam seethe Cobra throat coast gulps river relieve Estuary entry rest......

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... Bleak winter Melbourne morning, a cold wind coming in from across the Bay and blowing down the street, past the Esplanade Cafe with the smell of coffee and warm air spilling out from an o......

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... sun … glints off sweaty trickles as they plop … plop … little lad’s littler fingers tickling a tide pool’s papery face things of mysterious intention, darting there to here to there … wide......

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...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......

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...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......

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

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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... "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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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