Short Silent As The Grave Poems

With your mouth to stop my sleep
I be as silent as the grave
Cheek by jowl
I hunger for the truth
unlike this silent appareil
that devoids the last  spiders return...

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ravenous vultures roam
cheek by jowl
battle lanes prolonged
Wrestle the weasel
in the tall grass
Laura dances
her hips throng
Lost paradise where did it go ?

We are born through golden forests
I will be as silent as a grave
The Son of Pan
appears in heavy guise,
beneath the pond
 he hears foremost of our melancholy
at a white aspen we chant...

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I bask in open sunshine

I bathe in tranquil waters

Each moment pacifies my soul

I work to feed my hunger

I watch past seasons slumber

Well knowing time will take its toll

I subscribe to mend my faults 

I strive for strength and knowledge 

Believing wisdom comes with age

I laugh gasping my last breath

I lie silent in my grave

As I ascend another stage...

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IMAGE PHRASIS II
Seeds of summer grasses wait quietly
‘neath the snowdrift,osier shoots burst 
forth below a gossamer welt,on a 
hanging thread.Fine dry easterlies flurries
silent as a grave,sunlight flickers through 
tall lifeless trees and falters as shadowed
silhouettes recall sepia memories.A trail 
of nows which echo to a distant horizon. 
From my Twist&Slant 2005
Listen to me recite this part phrasis on youtube under my pen name ichthys chiro...

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