Unworked Poems


Arbeit Macht Frei

...The first weakening of night 
picks out telephone lines, 
black against sky. 

The eyelid of a garage door 
lurches laboriously up. 
A car coughs blue breath. 

With aerosols and plastic scra...
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Categories: unworked, work,
Form: Free verse

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Desert dust before the rain hampered our walk
                       on the Oregon  floor
             boards creaked with late afternoon lore
                 
Dry gin in a glass wait...
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Categories: unworked, art, books, deep, emotions,
Form: Free verse


Arbeit Macht Frei

...The first weakening of night 
picks out telephone lines, 
black against sky. 

The eyelid of a garage door 
lurches laboriously up. 
A car coughs blue breath. 

With aerosols and plastic scra...
...
Continue reading...
Categories: unworked, society,
Form: Free verse

Hollowed Out But Holding Heavens

...Stone set unblemished unworked faces create hardship floors on which to sip out of rock puddles. Such luxury. In a fine art landscape one must always wear clicking heels. And one must always lift one...
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Categories: unworked, beach,
Form: I do not know?

Premium MemberSoul Stance River - 30

...The Columbia is a smooth beast that has introduced us to a semi tropic clime
that produces a bewildering humidity even for November
and a panoply of tree types that canopy the mossy turfs
from a s...
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Categories: unworked, adventure,
Form: Epic


Premium MemberSong of a Cherokee Princess -

...Cherokee chamber,
where a pow wow stampeedes preconceptions of inheritence,
from Her beaded neck charms of chance & chains of change
glisten from opulent offerings of roots, corn & lavender ablaze
on...
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Categories: unworked, native american, dance, for
Form: Romanticism

Premium MemberInukshuk- Symbol of the Canadian North

...They stand tall like a monument, the wayfarer’s journey guide
Rough stones shaped into human form, the meaning to unhide,
Inuits first carefully piled these stones, the meaning becomes clear,...
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Categories: unworked, history, inspirational, , memorial,
Form: Rhyme
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