Shale Poems - Poems about Shale

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Don’t take for granite who you are Just be a little boulder Remember that you’re made of stars And someday when you’re older You may be a marble statue That the pebbles gaze upon And the world shale marvel at you And of quartz you will rock on....

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A mackerel sky fillets the village then hides it in a breezeless blear. Heads poke out of net drapes sniff and fish behind trawling curtains. Shopkeepers brace for wet dog splatter and spray for slopping boots and salty puddles. On the sightless sea far beyond the shore and shingle, lost fog horns are lowing deep like colicky cattle. Later, misty reeks will be scoured from groggy docks. Hauling...

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Sandstone, rough, gritty. Shale. Cool, layered, shelved. Beryl. Ugly but if you can keep it for a million years You will have emerald and aquamarine from beryl. I am staring at my piece now, watching it not change....

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when you know yourself there is no key to things like wisdom the gates to a billion realities the shade through time we're shale people...

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