Short Lamp Shade Poems

My space ship of a lamp shade,
This little cardboard room.
What genius exists here,
In the abscence of the moon?...

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Gilded parasol on horizon's edge twirling
Twilight's lamp shade dying embers swirling
Sun's spent beams with embroidered frills quilting
Patchwork of tinctured gases simmering
Deep red, burnt orange ridges brimming
Violet, creme pastels periphery fringing
Dusk's opaque veil with palling shadows dimming...

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When I walk in
you are sat 
with arms crossed
loosely
watching
two woodlice,
one trailing behind
too slow to keep up.
The light bulb,
too white
for a cosy 
living room,
is naked
without 
its lamp shade
and it reflects
in your eyes,
a tiny white dot
like a lone star
in the night sky. 
Is it ridiculous
to say that
eyes are like mouths
because yours 
are open right now....

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trust is often written 
with counterfeit ink
it’s such a poor lover

mourning in the morning
as my blood curls
around the throat
of the world
and makes
the impossible
possible

soft sandpaper hands
promise and lie
like shadows entwined
on a lamp shade
the light goes out  
water falls to
dust death 
in wind shadows
low and down
liquor lips
and lies
and
the long goodbyes

trust me
trust 
lies...

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