Late Autumnal Flames
...Autumn expires In its own fires
simmering the fallen with flaring tints.
Leaves crepitate and crackle
skived to crisp skins.
Hedgerows turn to vacant
crypts, twigs to wooden teeth.
Arboreal em...
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Categories:
skived, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Marks
...We are marked,
a fervid sun brands,
icy winds score skin deep
marks at least as obvious as Cain's.
Every decade weathers us,
our leather skived; oils desiccated into
wrinkled smiles
but each f...
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Categories:
skived, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fish Tale
...Scales hardened over her skin
a condition called ichthyosis vulgaris
ik-thee-O-sis vul-Ga-ris
fish disease
(the ‘vulgar’ means ordinary
but at its worst
it is far from common).
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Categories:
skived, poverty,
Form: Blank verse
Fake World
...Down to the Earth she reside
Although many times she gyved
But from all the negativity she survived
For mental peace many times she skived
But about all her weaknesses she shrived
Yes in this fa...
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Categories:
skived, appreciation, confidence, courage, deep,
Form: ABC