Short Translucency Poems

the way you walk, and talk 
is at the mercy of tides and shifting dunes

the foibles,
the characteristically odd ways 
of your individual life
its mannerisms and behavioral peculiarities

will fall away by and by 

and what will be left
is this perfect alien species
formed by your every dazzle and daze

a translucency
all shall recognize as themselves...

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TACTILES

 blue
in
a
an arrested
 gaze

 slide
in
a
fused an
avalanche
 onto
 a bare
canvas
to
 erupt


then
to
burst out
&through
into
a
startling
 ravishing
melting
beyond beauty
 into
conceptual
 refinement
&
 shine
the
translucency
of
 colouration

an ability
to
decorate
the
 delicate things
with
a passion
for
the intensely
 tactile...

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Give me a dawn stilled by mist,
a gray haze unrisen.
The shimmer of nocturnal lamps
held high.

A time for tree magic; a quite majesty,
all growth halted, transpiring not,
but held within a mystical abeyance.

A pause on the lip of light,
when woodland dreams
are hung from trailing moss,
or a dew drop drip,
from spider webs of translucency -

a fairytale time,
when a walker's warm breath
is the only path,
through the stillness of self....

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