Short Insulate Poems

eyes shiver from the cold
of your appearance.
to keep tears from falling-
stalling-
close those lids,
insulate that fear
as growing&better prospects
approach&
near....

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Listen to poem:

as best she can
she tries
to insulate
each gap
of silence

the voids the cracks
with everything she can

anything to blur
the reality
she wants
so desperately
to gloss over
and forget

mindless chatter
most times sadly pathetic



AP: Honorable Mention 2022

Posted on March 21, 2021...

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Consider the versatility
of certain animal wearability:
The sheep produces wool
to insulate our body heat;
the cow a nonporous leather
to keep our feet dry in wet weather;
the pig puts on a layer of lard,
more commonly called fat.
But who, really – think hard –
wants to be seen wearing that?
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Charon 2001
by Michael R. Burch

I, too, have stood—paralyzed at the helm
watching onrushing, inevitable disaster.
I too have felt sweat (or ecstatic tears) plaster
damp hair to my eyes, as a slug’s dense film
becomes mucous-insulate. Always, thereafter
living in darkness, bright things overwhelm.

Originally published by The Neovictorian/Cochlea...

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