Short Solarium Poems

a solarium
seems to cov'r the whole forest
sun awakens nature...

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Verdant plants take me into a jungle mode
This lunch is going to turn into a note-taking thing
Vitamin D hits my shoulders in a loving way
This solarium makes a marvelous lunch place
I take out my pen, eager to begin
When my lunch companion sits down.

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In a violent contumacious act
the rankled child smashed the terrarium;
the green shards of glass making an abstract
scheme on the tiles of the solarium.
Amid the sphagnum and the fertile dirt
sixteen years of tender growth lay dying
a single swipe with full intent to hurt;
the child listened to the mother crying....

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The  barren brown  desert, 
Seemingly  empty of life, 
Soap  trees  staring  silently at  the  sun, 
Everything  smells  burned  and  blasted. 

“Satan’s  solarium”  people say it  is, 
My  tongue  is swollen due  to  lack  of  water, 
My  dehydrated  liver shutting  down, 
My  skin  feels  scraped  by  sandpaper, 

The  remains  of the  camp  fire, 
Is  the  only  evidence  of  past  habitation, 
Getting  separated  from  my team, 
Was  the  last  thing  I  wished,...

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SOLARIUM SIDEWINDERS

introverted 
hermit crabs
share cavities
appeased in their 
shielded double
sanctuaries

solariums of solitude
misplaced platitudes
humoring normalcy
with crustaceous
pet mentality

prisoners of exposé
unventilated cage
soft pink lungs
dried out sponge
obligatory needs
waterdearth
disclosure



solarium sidewinders 
discharge
leakage and seepage
exposure
losing all sheltered
composure




© Kim van Breda—28 December 2015...

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