Short Marbling Poems

Slyvia
Slips tongue
Rolls.
Hot water
On thin ice
Trailing Pattern
Evaporating
Marbling air
The ethereal
Blest Breath
Condensing
Misty windows...

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Burning, white heat coursing across flesh
		A honky no longer
Leafy flecks marbling skin like wire mesh
		Relax and grow stronger

Silence attacked by Dolly Parton’s CDs
		A boiling furnace
Darts competitions bring you to your knees
		The sun only burns us

The water is contrastingly icicle cool
		At night the sunshine abates
Trapped voluntarily here by the pool
		Package holidays are great!...

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In the beginning 
our hearts are cherry dipped stars
floating in forever clouds of
wonderment and joyful mayhem

At the end 
we are pieces of pottery and driftwood 
at the bottom of dead-end canyon called finality

In the middle there is a grand collision
of rain, fire wood, greenware and glaze 
thundering whirlpools of inspiration, creation
reality marbling the soul with mountains of never and always 
and the miracle of the now....

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It is the pure mystery of amethyst
that inhabits my world
It glows in dawn light along
 receding shadows.
Cool, enticing it embraces my soul
Adds those  fresh dimensions to trees 
in  rain-swept meadows.
Everywhere, I see its shades repeat –
in the marbling of shells -sheen on a bird’s wing- 
veins in a rock - flower petals -
I wrap myself each morning in its lighter shades-
 cool,  lavender chiffon, and you come to me
the magic of amethyst in your kiss.

For Frank Herrera's Color Contest...

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