Velum Poems - Poems about Velum

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Dearly beloved, I stand here today,
A weight on my heart, a tear in my eye.
A time when friends gather to say goodbye
Everything’s mortal and passes away.
Books have been with us since someth...

The Velum of Clouds

...For all the planning
and learned preparation
poetry remains part
mystery

a write only dimly solvable

a poet wisely advised to
proudly accept 
all credits, while adhering failures 
to sacr...

Origami

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White wings fly from fingertips.
A white swan held up to the sun
illumines the eye.

Paper flowers velum vanilla
perfumed.
Cupped hands
flowering in the air.

Almost weightless,
a...

Voice

...The voice is mine and yet not,
I have nurtured it, both goaded,
and placated it,
until its tongue is as liquid as molten
silver.

It is not human, never was.
It came to me as a stray dog would...

Exterior Garment

...Physical is the coat I wear-out
in the elements – the ephemeral
shell of me, and not the yoke, man's 
embryo of spiritual wealth...longevity of 
experience and immortal growth – 

True! -- of t...

Ecchymosis

...inflamed by its sputtering,
cavity muttering-
opened by oaken and metal frame fluttering,
lapsing from pavement and pierced into meat.

uttered uncomfortably, aortas ushering,
sizing in varicos...

Dramatic Monologue By a Coldcocked Husband

...*original poem follows the Dramatic Monologue

Dramatic Monologue by a Coldcocked Husband

Yes, you know my wife is nuts,
no ifs, but oh her butt.
Mercilessly, I fell hard
for that cupi...

Breathe

...Bittersweet, sorrowful, the air tonight tasted.
A gentle breeze swirled around and into me.
With each breath, I drank in the ambiance-
Fragrant, the autumn evening rushed me;
a smooth and potent ...

Hedgehog Thoughts

...The day seems long
the night longer
waiting
in treacle time,

oozing hours 
drip molasses minutes, 
toffee apple sticky seconds. 
The peculator coffee hisses
as I sit reading the newpaper,
...

Speechless Spoken Word Artiste

...SPEECHLESS SPOKEN WORD ARTISTE

So if my vocal folds can’t collaborate to produce sounds to communicate loudly to your beautiful mind that I have an endless mission of loving you, can’t there be an...

The Book Shop

...A second hand book shop watches the Sunday rain
beat against a resentful pavement. Its second hand
door opens up its second hand world to second
hand people, carrying first class money.

The new...

Lillies

...I noticed that
 even in death
 lilies held beauty,
 arched to one side,
 white petals
 glistened in the light

There were poems
 in their drooping folds.
 I reached into a void.
 They casca...

God Forbid

...My life is very insular, I move from page to page
never straying far from words which prance upon the written stage.

like a sputtering engine my tongue tangles on a phrase
I rub my eyes, red and raw...

Blintzes

...Buttermilk, Golden Brown, Crepes
  Soft, Smooth, Farmers Cheese
  Add the Sweet Yellow Raisins
   Small Curd  Cottage Cheese
      Orange Liqueur Flambe
          Pleased Velum
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Blintzes

...Buttermilk, Golden Brown, Crepes
  Soft, Smooth, Farmers Cheese
  Add the Sweet Yellow Raisins
   Small Curd  Cottage Cheese
      Orange Liqueur Flambe
          Pleased Velum
               A...

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