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Short Tailings Poems

Short Tailings Poems. Below are examples of the most popular short poems about Tailings by PoetrySoup poets. Search short poems about Tailings by length and keyword.


Stone Sculpture
The sculptor selects 
a mallet and a chisel, 
repositions the 
rock, creates the tailings to
pave the statue’s patron path....

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Categories: tailings, art,
Form: Tanka



Heartcrusher
Pebbles those thick drops of hard rain;  earth hail skittering
At the front of your mind growing, sloshing marbled and felt in your teeth
Scratching ache and unbalanced weight rolling forward to escape

Mud mouth soil that packed downslope; viscous vicious 
Damming down rivers the chest, collected tunnel tailings pressurize
Expanded space and collapsed place resisting to make face...

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Categories: tailings, life,
Form: Prose Poetry

Book: Reflection on the Important Things