Sloughing Poems - Poems about Sloughing

...(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......Read More

...Your blind back is becoming less familiar. 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 rap......Read More

...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......Read More

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

..."Reduced, the mechanical universe -- which includes man -- naught is but countless quantum particles of force and matter in one vast void." -- the Reality minus the magic * * ......Read More

...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 ......Read More

...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......Read More

...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......Read More

...how dare you tempt me, beast (I said) you shall not plunge my heart you've never taken time to hear the breadth my dreams impart you can not breach the wellsprin......Read More

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

...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 ......Read More

...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......Read More

...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......Read More

...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......Read More

...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. ......Read More