Short Without Expression Poems

it's not your fault
that you are invisible
you have a striking resemblance
to a lightly drawn shadow
it isn't a mask that can wear you
no presence to strike
only loneliness can guide 
any essence left from you
but then
isn't it always that way
for a woman without expression....

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Deep are the questions, like quicksand sinking
Seeping into a restless mind pressing
Weeping with release, yet overthinking
Sleep comes uneasy with dreams distressing

Heaps of concepts lead to faulty linking
Steeping upon words without expression
Sheep are miscounted with rapid blinking
Leaping to conclude a wrong impression

12-10-2020...

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Sparse lashes span aged lids,
framing an eye that catches light
like the clearest glass.
The softest liquid sheen - of tears?
But the eye stares blankly
without expression. 
No crinkle of joy, no distention of fear,
yet the pupil dilates, eclipsing the iris. 
Snuffing out the moon.
And there, the faintest reflection...
watching, waiting.  
He stares down Death itself
with no sign of fear.

*Inspired by Escher's "Eye"...

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...of love; would'st thou speak without expression...

...would love without expression speak, if hearts were
moved without a smile; would we still yearn to kiss...

...for lips can say I love you; within their silent touch...

...their caress returns a dawning hope;  of love that sang
but never spoke...

...but to whisper soft light musings, of a moment's fluid 
embrace;  oh how the seconds changed us, as our years
remained the same...


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