The Iron
...Sits there and judges.
How dare you mock me!
Do you think I have time
to perfect smocked sleeves?
Turned down collars
Frilly blouses
Pleats wrinkle-free.
You are redundant
No longer of use...
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Categories:
smocked, home, humor, wife, women,
Form: Free verse
Today Again
...Today Again
It does not improve
the void where hope once lived
now genocide has set her tent
among the childrens’ toys
toy trucks and broken dolls
blood smeared
the silence smocked
in mot...
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Categories:
smocked, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
The Returning Smiles
...The Retuning Smiles
i see beneath pairs of almond-shaped, green leavess
On white fabric, flowers set with four heart-shaped petals,
The color of sun-kissed blueberries,
Decorating the smocked s...
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Categories:
smocked, child, flower, health, imagery,
Form: Narrative
Blue Hole
...Alice falls in blue hole dizziness,
bedraggled in white-smocked dress,
bloomers, too-high
knee socks, medusa-spread
of dirty-blond hair. Her nastiness hovers around
the royal-red throne...
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Categories:
smocked, animal, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
The Black Cross
...Silver and gold in a black Pellegrina cape
He moved like a bat flapping to escape
The thurible swinging as the smoke trailed out
His words floated across the congregation in a shout
The altar b...
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Categories:
smocked, religion,
Form: Ballad
Pretty La Conner
...La Conner is such a pretty small town
That has grown and has changed for many years.
One of the first settlements in the state,
It is so much more than it first appears.
Many buildings from the...
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Categories:
smocked, places,
Form: Quatrain
A Hospital Stay - Part V
...5.
The In-Between
There, in the In-Between,
No trumpets sound
No beings clad in gold celestial fire
Arrive as guid...
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Categories:
smocked, angst, body, cancer, confusion,
Form: Free verse