Seersucker Poems - Poems about Seersucker

... * I’m honored to say that this piece was used for a “War Poetry” class by Ann Marie Thornton at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Many thanks to her and the students for their questions and pho......

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... A translucent bluish-white mineral with a mysterious sheen I hear them rustling behind heaven's plisse, fabric seersucker curtains, opaque but unlaced One breath and suddenly ......

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...“We’re cleared for takeoff,” the pilot announced, “settle in, our flight time to Atlanta will be 9 hours.” The Gulfstream roared down the runway and in a moment the tops of trees flashed by. We cl......

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...Release the shelter of bare feet, rhinestones on big toes sparkle. The tentacle-shine of sunwheat on the scrapyard-swig of river. Like a sunflower, the mudlark shuts her eyes, c......

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...* This poem was written for a contest originally, but was used by Professor Anne-Marie Thornton of Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, to teach her WAR POETRY class in the spring semester of 2017. ......

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...There, so long ago ... Precious little one, hair of platinum! If I could but speak to you from the "now", From the heart of the man you will come to be ... Oh, you have a pure spirit there,......

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...Her small angelic face ... Once a place where broad smiles bloomed like butterflies on marigolds, is streaked with the furrows that countless tears have etched into the layers of dust and di......

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...Incense clings in the air great clouds stealing into dark corners of stained wood and cold marble floors. I watch the casket roll by and memories take me. Unwilling. Here I knelt on red velvet......

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...Hedge with a Hole Stretched on the couch by the living room window, too tired to rise, verify locks and the stove, officially retire, he hears outside blasts of a curse, fists, and feet ......

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...Pastimes, purpose, those passionate flings; Fortunes and futures take uncharted swings; None deter dust when it’s your time to go; What will matter then – if it’s fast or it’s slow? Marriage, a......

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