Short Evocations Poems

in soft outline
strokes
whorls&
      stains
cropping close
 
    piercing black
upright
&
 informal
  imaginary &surprising

 ambiguous
perhaps
 an allusion
      
 something from
 nothing
      refined
evocations
of
minimalist
  tracery...

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shadowy sparse
        brooding anxious restless
        introspection
moments simplified
      til the gloom breaks
twilit patches
             uninflections
              melancholia contrived
in abstract
            evocations 
              exemplified
&unbroken...

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In every sense I smell his love 
When the pure-scented moonlight bathes my window
Reflecting its tresses inside and the night-breeze
Spills a bouquet exploding of wonderful colors
Of evocations to mind which stroke perfumed
Warm touch on my glowing skin courted
By lavender whispers of memory… hmm…there
In every sense I smell his love....

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So many new names
 appear to grace the poetic soup
the myriad of talent sets my thoughts aflame
 as my head spins on the words in flowing loop.

Welcome all ye poets who write
 where have you been in these dark days of distancing apart
each line and stanza brings new delights
 expose your mind, the subtle gentle evocations of hearts
and happily, I'll read your wonderful expressions
 that lift me from sheltering depression.

Welcome all to the poetic soup!...

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gripping the shards of memories
ignoring the bloodied emotions
why do we torture ourselves 
with that which we cannot change
 
these evocations
vivid
disturbing
invisible to others
but our élan spotlit
driven
instituting mostly patronising
eleemosynary projects
 
perfect recall
subject to
experiences dictated by
accident of birth
the authenticity of memoirs
tenaciously defended
but ravaged by
subliminal influences
a testimony to its perfidy...

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