Short Wallpaper Poems

evening falls-

out of the blue  silhouettes 

wallpaper the sky...

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for Charlotte:  stuck in 
circles, bars, postpartum woes
yellow wallpaper...

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Repent at leisure when you marry in haste.
Never let a cat near wallpaper paste....

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I bluster
with what 
I don't understand
and cover up
the cracks
with anger and pain....

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A SUBLIMINAL ANNOYANCE

Over
the tannoy-
easy list'ning
relaxing the clasp on
our purse...

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dark desolate road
an unloved abandoned house
shabby and unkempt
makes me exceedingly sad
tear wallpaper from my youth...

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Memory is reality,
is what I find,
plastered to the cracked back walls
of my soul.
When I peel off the old wallpaper,
and the walls come crumbling down....

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touch flocked wallpaper
smell pink tulips
scream your absolute joy
taste salt and sugar
be as awake as you can be
every day is a gift
do not squander it...

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Vintage photo hanged 
In the defaced wallpaper 
A remembrace of years
Recollected and encased
In the cedar chiffonier














3-28-2016...

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Rise above the world
You have to rise above the noise
You have to become the figure against the wallpaper of the world
You have to stand out against the background...

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There was a virile wallpaper hanger called Brunn
Who did his best to make every job well done.
His fame spread far and near.
And clients were heard to cheer
“Hire Brunn if you want something well hung.”...

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war drums pounding dirge
`peace, peace, when there is no peace'
quicksilver madness



6/20/2022

Based on Jeremiah 6:14

Image created by Mark Toney on canva.com using iOS Big Sur Wallpaper...

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slipping
   when the wallpaper walks
   and the floor
   pulls the wind out of you



*saccades: a rapid movement of the eye between fixation points
  (impaired, as with concussions, causes vertigo, anxiety, fatigue)...

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Tonight I’m dressed up
in the finest wallpaper
As you waltz by
With your shiny 
Trophy of the week
Oh, you should be
A fly on my Wall
I rolled up in the edges
Of the Seventh Day Herald
News of your Armageddon
In my hands
Splat!...

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cut out the rotten stairs
a dustheart of demolition,
old glass, pictures

and all the debris of a too long
life, a foeteal child locked
under torn wallpaper,

no pulse, no water, shadows
of a stained man gone
this is the rest,all uncored....

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Tears,

Like the cracks in the paint

of the upstairs bedroom.

A corner of old wallpaper,

picked at and peeled til

the whole wall is laid bare.

A wanting that was 

there before time. 

(It only makes it worse)

The only thing worse 

is not....

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I love this painting;  it reminds me of my grandmother’s apron.
I see her kitchen and smell fresh chocolate chip cookies.
Another despises it;
It reminds her of being raped when she was four.
The wallpaper on her Uncle’s walls.
She smells him.
Art is subjective....

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There’s old wallpaper
Fading, cracking before me
Leads to a window
Open, with comforting breeze
View to die for, pleasant, free

A well-crafted place
That I dwell and reside in
Outside is wondrous
The air is peaceful and calm
Perfect, I love where I am

Russell Sivey...

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--Wallpaper portrait of  lake effect snoW
--Icy conditions, back spasms cripple. I
-sNiffle. goose pimples, brail on my skiN
--Thin sheets of black ice line my streeT
--Erratic winds shoot ice shrapnel, I fleE
--Retreat,  for the comfort of my reclineR 


Jared Pickett
2/10/2010
Asavvy1...

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Female skeeter singing for a favor
wanting my blood for her next caper
she's playing with fire
her future looks dire
joining others on my wallpaper.




8-23-17
For Lin's "Drawing Blood" Join In Poem
Addendum: Had to change the gender of the mosquito because found out only females bite!~Che :)...

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*Image of Pirates Of The Caribbean by Wallpaper Cave.


Errant Voyage

~~

wretched souls

lofty dreams

treasures

~~

gold

silver

and pearls

as big as the moon

~~

Picture #1


2021 July 07
*1st Place*
Picture This 2 - 7 Lines
~~Joseph May: Judged 2021 July 12...

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What triggers out-of-control emotions?
frown
whistle
lopsided picture frame
yellow flowered wallpaper
person
smell
landscape
poem
painted canvas
purse
postcard
antique mall
toothbrush
six thousand eight hundred other things
What triggers me is unique to me
And what triggers you is an anomaly to me...

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MIXED    METAPHORS

It was my surprise   - decoration of her hallway
But someone told her
Let the cat out of the dog
And the wallpaper and paint mixture was
Dead  as  a dado
But if I find the scoundrel who told
He’ll be in a hearse of a different color



Entered in Debbie Guzzi ‘s Contest    “ Something Different”...

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Moon is shining, 
window to the soul,
stare through 
the paper doll,
wallpaper hearts
are raining
water rivulets,
leading lines.
Into the ocean,
dreams and wishes
washed up 
the rocky shore,
starry expanse,
scars and clouds,
laughing scissors
cut into flesh.
Forget the heart
and hopes behind,
learn to forget,
remember that....

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What if. . .
after all the time
that seemed to have passed


you awoke
to find yourself
prone 
in a crib
staring blearily
through bars at sun-dappled wallpaper
mulling over all of the images
that before you had played
and seemed so very real


even if you could speak
how would you begin
to describe the dream...

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