Slices Poems - Poems about Slices

In front of your birthday cake, you divide your life into slices, and each slice bears a face, etched with the marks of the time it belongs to. A knife on the platter is your portion, sharp edges cutting the icing so gently, like your skin, that you cannot call it violence. It’s not contrast, but distance, measured and...

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A new tomato burst beneath a blade, its juice streaking my wrist, mimicry of something I swore off years ago. Seeds scatter like liquid mercury across the cutting board, smallest of reminders that life spreads even if it’s cut short, stunted. I keep slicing, pretending the stains ...

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Once there were millions. Now there are billions. Once there were kings. Now there are councils. Once there was ignorance. Now knowledge abounds. Once there was poverty. Now comfort for most. Once there was war. Now there is peace. Once there were traditions. Now there are systems. Our relative power is slipping away. Even as we all grow greater each day. 8 October 2023...

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Touching hearts - did I just call him a ham, her a turkey, another a chicken, as I directed them with smiles, my humor-filled wiles. I resurrect, as I’m directed to hand out love. This makes me generous…I generously give life, not eternity…directing the elderly…I’m at the fringe, to pick up their box (not the rectangular offing that will contain a...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs;" Samuel Taylor Coleridge Earth Rips different Not like cloth tearing, sharp, painful sounds Thicker cloth nêe bursts baritone harshness Ripping from earth, done solemnly, knowing greater calamitous unearthing is certain, feels like bursting Buttons,...

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Everybody has a slice of profound from the village idiot to the killer clown but do you have the patience to pluck the nuggets from the turd after all everyone wants and needs to be heard listen to the idiot ramble-between the babble he may have the cure for war-cancer -unhappy the mime and the butterfly may be etching the map...

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We never knew witches were real. Until you flashed your fingertip fire. Across our motherless cheeks and into our lives. We needed quilts of compassion and support. You offered only endless task and unbridled welt retort. Now you're old and retired the broom and the belt. Though your hugs and words are still north pole cold. Just like...

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I want to eat cheesy down home goodness I want to be mozzarella vegan great to eat the best flavors right off a non-dairy plate but, honest finance has told me so I will never know vegan in this price range I could stretch out my dough I could save up multitudes of pennies but let's face it...

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For a slice of splash From the yellow and green sky Through a chance window Both you and I lie in wait Sands of our blue time restless ______________________________________ 20/10/2016...

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slices of deep night cut through heart's embittered walls--- Dove's light passes by Haiku On Enlightenment Contest For: Marvin Celestial Daniel Port...

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LEMON SLICES rivulets of condensation drip down the sides of tall glasses-- iced water lemon slices flavour refreshing reflections...

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Underneath the hard tough bark of a tree Is a porous heart Underneath my canopy of memory Things fall apart The sun drops rivers of blood on wounded skies The silver sheen of sea The odor of the drowned carcasses denies O let it be Lazarus came form the dead to die again From broken heart and care I climb pyramids to come down again Going...

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A little brown river, Naked children splashing in its muddy waters, Their mirth and laughter of raucous delight, Untroubled by foresight. A tiny hut made of mud, Parching in the dazzles of the ruthless sun, The bent figure of a farmer as he nurtures The field of paddy that his simple heart treasures. A bustling bazaar, With its overwhelming array of sights...

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Food Lion is charging about four bucks for three small watermelon slices. It really ticks me off when I see these high prices. An entire watermelon only costs six bucks. Charging four dollars for three slices really sucks. It makes more sense to buy a whole watermelon for only two bucks more. If Food Lion would lower their prices, they'd...

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She straightens as she sifts though shells a parlotry of hollow bells aside from the ocean that heaves and swells these are the sounds she holds in her hands. She shivers in the midnight air the silver salt on each strand of hair her heart released from every care and the toll the world demands. She never looks behind for fear of seeing...

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