Sloughing Poems - Poems about Sloughing

...I am the traveller with stones in my coat Made opaque by staying nameless Though dark I am not darkness Swallowing the edges of days, overtaking I rinse my dirty fingers in a painted lake Runn......

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...The Vessel pt. 2 - Leviæthan I 'neath the grim pallor of a Plutonian moon, Sheltered in the cloak of Phantom's embrace, A tempest rages within flesh— ento......

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...(This time I've quoted my own poem titles. Everything in quotes is a title.) "Dear reader," again, this monolog persists. We're no longer "sparring" with figurative fists. "The blood of an E......

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...Your blind back lacks familiarity. Beside me you sit, chest rising, as if you were real. Your hand outstretched in expectation, mine carefully curled in. Now a sudden squeeze, so rapid a gra......

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...Slow flames under the blacktop, simmer-ghost rise from the sloughing road. Rubber scorches its skin shedding blackened snakes. It's a hot day, creeping turtles fill pot-holes with their ho......

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...Blindingly bright: flames devour rocky: the cliff. Provide shape: pace matter falter: ......

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...I will forever remember the day my Momma lay dying It is etched into my mind like a permanent scar The eerie quiet that suddenly settled over the room, Except for the lowing sounds of ......

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...LITTLE WINGS “No,” and they meant it. The dizzy seat almost threw the 8 year old. He was swiveling ‘round and around and around, starting to look green, ready to fly, free fall. Slip of balanc......

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...A Stolen Memory A Mirthful Chorus By Sy Roth We surrounded him Asked to let go. She stared at the misshapen face, Unshaven sandpapery skin Eyelids a tabula rasa Fluttery sere skin And......

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...Aspiration Antoine had crashed once again when tempting the desert Freedom fighter laureate poet daredevil testing the call of ~ Poisonous Times ~ A mysterious man......

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...A glorious sunset in an opening Never before seen. Miles from nowhere. Dimming iridescent sunset. The forest shines light to the East Eyes can't adjust to the shadows of the West. The light of ......

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...All alone, in the surreal, rayless eventide, gnarly, disheveled hands gouging from the rooted Earth, tongue forever tied. Melancholia echoing through Gods breath, despondency wrenching your azure-spl......

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...In youth, I lived in gray Gathering pearls, blood, and dust of those before me, Straying beyond lines of black and white Testing-Detesting- Spoonfed sweet lilac by society. My roots twine deepl......

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...We rise in the morning after many sunsets, Passing death, hurdling heartbreak, sloughing regrets Off in the distance we see tomorrows, known from pasts And at last we know, we know its as good a......

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...Androgynous Angel in white Wings of satin about to take flight like some Space Oddity searching for a bit of life. I gaze in fascination at this being which entered my house as a vinyl cover. ......

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