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Porphyry Poems - Poems about Porphyry


We Did Not Dye In Vain
...we did not Dye in vain! from “songs of the sea snails” though i’m just a slimy crawler, my lineage is proud: my forebears gave their lives (oh, let the trumps blare loud!) so purple-mantl......

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Categories: porphyry, purple,
Form: Verse
Connect
...We are here but brief on the scene of Love The worlds a stage we war, we peace in life We find pain to connect, pleasure in strife Under it toiling endless sun shines from above Shattered sh......

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Categories: porphyry, humanity, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet



The Eye of I
...THE EYE of I What is life? What is love? The eye of I took it in… The material rolling sweeps highs and lows--valleys cuts, grooves, gullies and gorges eye engorge crevices of porphyry heat fli......

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Categories: porphyry, allusion, senses, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Jailbirds
...here are those whose bones inhabit clothes and muscles feed on flesh except for mine — here in concrete and florescent light between closing walls and slamming locks where the doors bear nam......

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Categories: porphyry, prison,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things