Short Pumice Poems

Stone Washed
By Valerie D. Staton

stiff denim fabric
attacked by gang of pumice - 
heavily distressed...

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Igneous rock
Geological role
Puck or pumice
Sleazy plays
The tone
Keep your hands clean
Dig in your own dirt...

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Pumice! my throat cried!
:flames where words
should   always BE!
/trembled this world,

death warmed OvEr
  incredible!how the
ground cries & …skies
weep these Eternal Crystals
of Truth!

:: 09-28-2016 ::...

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A simpleton mewls.
Streams of martyrdom
sate white porcelain.
Sins and suffering
hover like pumice.

Pruned fingertips
scratch metallic
drain passages
seeking escape.

Dread subsides
as bubbles
vanish and

whimpers
simply

laugh....

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More precious than crystalline trances
are singular experiences flicking 
on my mind, a spill of alabaster, chrome
and pumice-like moments with you flow back-
In rampage and elation I wander lonely
through our stardust of intricacies blown off.


Stardust Contest/ Sponsor-Nette Onclaud
14 June 2020...

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Gargling   
Hurling
Glowing
Sprinkling
Gargling, hurling pumice, ash, tephra, 
Sprinkling glowing red lava trickle down.


Bursting
Firing
Flushing
Rushing
Bursting, firing red flames, cries, anger
Flushing, rushing lava, passion, power

                             ++++++
Sixth Place win
Contest: Sound of colors by Monterey...

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It was more than
I could take.
The phallic paranoia.

Can I come out of 
your body and kneel
before death ?

Less than dark
I dream of the nipples
spurting out venom.

A pumice raft
of the crowd, sailing
on the waves of narcissism.

Invisible sharks
on high seas
open the lambs for salt.

Can you eat your
words please ?
There is nothing left on the plate.


Satish Verma...

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The earths end, sky, sea;
pumice stone, windward lea
life grasped, grey alpine scree
Christian hinterland barren be.

Pillars, lentils, altar stones;
ground from Lug’s ancient bones.
Life minute, crevice formed foam
Erin’s core, St. Patrick’s home.

Where sweetness blooms, oh so rare;
petals leach such perfumed air
From seeming nothing fairest fair,
Ah, the Burren’s take me…there....

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Oh crap they taste bad like old spit
I cleaned them with pumice and grit
With extra effort they don’t fit

Maybe they are bent too

How about your’s, are they perfect?
Check twice, imperfect I suspect
Let me know if there’s a defect

If broken I have glue

Your’s also failed? Best put them down
This predicament makes me frown
I’ll meet you later near downtown

Bring dentures, mine for you...

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Pompeii 

Amid ashes pumice lay
Life in cinders Pompeii in disarray
Vesuvius plumed angry swell
Archeologists unearth deathly knell

Volcanic vomit ample spume
from sunlight golden to darkened gloom
Roman bathing in waters pure
Nimbus of fires blazing coiffure

In 79 AD it's eruption did occur
No time to flee , No time for prayer
For sure a wrong analogy of mine
but this 'Furnace' it froze in time 

thank you...

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