Short Enamel Poems

Chipped white enamel
Yet the basin still holds water
Beauty in scars....

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Little Girl Manicure

Pink enamel
bitten to
remnants of lacquer
not quite chipped
away.

Kathryn McL. Collins
September 29, 2013...

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success-
the enamel
disguising a mess
where the meaning
becomes less and less
forsaking confusion
for a state of illusion
with a gesture-
of subtle finesse...

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Hands down, the sleeper
Sits on a seclusive seat of hope:

Aging lips survey a feast 
With disdain, and crust at the 
Hair peach crying out for barber Enamel
Atop its push-up chair of
Amethyst and scarlet....

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often 
   called limning
 vitreous enamel
 painted on copper
or ivory
opaque,
 & gold
  to heighten effect 
of
ingenious illusion
 in
soft focus
images-

society's
face
in
detail-
stubble
  warts an'all
...

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                     tooth
               jagged, canine
        aching, decaying, eating
  denture, enamel, manicure, claw
       grabbing, clenching, filing, 
              etched, pinpoint
                       nail
...

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Rather than but like
graffiti it is

this life, this love
out there yet hidden

in the art form
out of mind

caricatured remnants
of moments past

the sniff of glue, enamel vapour
the splatter of it

on the backdrop of imagination
reality forms

Like Graffiti...

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Eating sugary foods
each day is known to cause 
enamel damage; so 
ensure you brush your teeth!
Eroded teeth can give
excruciating pain …
extraction could follow!


Pleiades E contest
Sponsored by Kim Merryman
Checked with how many syllables

09~17~16...

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The Winter is enamel;
buckets of cold,
sodden pots of late growth.

Snow ship.
Trees taut with
tackle of frost.

Earth hard as
the white sea,
adrift and lost

between seasons
made of ice and sorts
of rain, not falling,

not sailing.
Dull and still
as December....

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Curved and simple
as milkbone,
used as a hidden grail,

a pale listener.
When the morning rain calls
we carry buckets into the yard.

Warm lipped from mugs,
knights of clink and
clack, we triumph over

cobbles, flood past the latch.
We know grey and the
weight in one arm....

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The trinity of trees
Ice and weak light
Bitter as the

Sharp cold, pools 
Of thin water that
Grab like trolls at

Heavy ankles, breath
That steams off a
Horse`s back,

And the sky, the sky
Enamel under
An artic moon;

The year closed
Like a wet copse
Standing in the  frost...

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( for Syria)


Flywheels enamel
with heartblood,
aortal ticks hesitate

before the dull bang
of a falling fist;
the fat knuckle

of the next hit,
tick tick the small ones,

the eaters of dust,
stone-eyed they
fall apart like lost time,

the weights that
regulate all this
are unbalanced....

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Fun

Skating on thin ice describes for some
that nice Deception--fun,
taunting the chill fathom
beneath the white skin.

Too much like spending
small change for me.
All that over-shoulder peeking
to be sure the depth's not there.

When one hard look would send
those enamel eyes 
crashing through 
a surprise of air....

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Chewing is my favorite sport
You can have the wine, the port
My teeth were sharp, my teeth were fine
Until we hit that 30’s line
Enamel gone, chipped off by ice,
Tried to ignore dental advice
Cavities in my icy mouth
Five root canals, we’re going south
Pain and awfulness even a bridge
I think twice now when I open that frig...

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These are just for fun...I am trying my hand at them!

DROMEDARY'S NAIL POLISH
 camel enamel

SMALL UNSENTIMENTAL HORSE
  stony pony

WILD DOG LANGUAGE
  dingo lingo

INEBRIATED POLECAT
  drunk skunk

HOG'S MUSIC PLAY DATE
  pig gig

  SPICY WILDCAT
  peppered leopard

FELINE HEAD WEAR
  cat hat

OUTSTANDING MARSUPIAL
awesome possum...

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a basin of white chipped enamel
tips the wash over the pale streets;
lights appear in the random order

of secret intent; confused stars
in an untidy sky light the northern stone,
hours slip behind a rook`s shadow;

a rain curtain falls as we sigh with routine:
we are waiting for a small, clean death,
trapped between the sun and the moon....

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Each
      chiselled
                     line
enamel
              images
to float
upon
            sounds
                       sans
                       rime
staccato
syntax
              align
                     symmetry
as
iambics
                  beat
the
drum
           of
                  vers
liber...
         ....tine...

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Contest entry: Kintsuroi


Oh the mass of rotted enamel 
The disfiguration of an old time beauty
Brown gravestones twisted
It really is not me…

No amalgam to repair
I think I will be bold
And look into kintsuroi
And get them fixed with gold

A dashing smile of golden teeth
I will flash your way
But I think it is expensive and
You may have to pay

© GG 8 /01/2014...

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AN OPEN FORM
Each
      chiselled
                     line
enamel
              images
to float
upon
            sounds
                       sans
                       rime
staccato
syntax
              align
                     symmetry
as
iambics
                  beat
the
drum
           of
                  vers
liber...
         ....tine...

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charred and smooth
black inside white enamel
decadence from the inside out
that evil temptress here to steal a tooth
and replace it so sweet with caramel
to fatten my mouth and fill it stout

sparkling and rugged
white inside black soot
decadence from the outside in
mine own mistress bruised and mugged
rotten from the brain to foot
whip me right in my ugly sin...

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Mother of folktales
Milking and waxing.
I wish you for a taste

We'll sing and have cocktails
Under your enamel masking
A night with you never a waste.

Your beautiful smile
Subdues the nights' dread
And gives comforts in sleep.
You light every mile
Of your milking spread
A delight worth to keep.

My eyes await you
The sight of your white hue.

12/04/2013...

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Porcelain doll hangs on shadows and wings
Of twilight’s frame. Guarding an autumn child,
The toy lightens ink of stenciled dusk
As her enamel fingers gleam like candles...
Yellow the stars where she comes from
robed in  fine lace . Through heaven’s  print
An angel in disguise bestows love, as
Porcelain doll hangs on shadows and wings



Contest 236 Max 16 Lines...

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Planes breaking like towers on 9/11
Is anyone in heaven labeled 7
Stuck in hell with a big gun on my belt 
Ready to fight my way out til I melt
Hell’s kitchen is not as bad as you'd think
Oppression bears black; a giant mammal
I just want to rip out tooth enamel 
Ramble about my condition as a slave
N***** they call me, my mind is a rave 
Luck’s lost on lucky leigh way left of love...

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Wiggles and tugs
  not a chance for a pull
  excited and nervous
  soon to be a little less full

relief ne'er a cry
  the battle is done
  a few crimson drops
  freedom is won

filling the night with
  enamel fairy tale dreams 
  magic's released
  under down so it seems

with sun sparkling her eyes
  on a bed made for a queen
  countless treasures arise
  and her hole smile is seen...

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They began to quarrel,
After he heard ‘Squirrel!’
Instead of Stan Scammel
And he called him ‘Rommel’:
“The Not-Strong Enamel”
Who could Hitler blackmail 
While it was ‘Same Barrel!’

Then, they stopped The Quarrel,
When he heard ‘Becquerel’
A Laureate with a Laurel …

Quarrels from Nicknaming:
A Purposed Misnaming!
Who would such start claiming:
A hateful Misnomer;
KGB’s Informer
For OGB Omar …...

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