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Wallpapered Poems

Purpose or Obliteration

...I dreamed I was inside a bulb—
a cathedral of filament and glass—
not dead
not born…..
but shumming**.

Glass walls curved like time
sealed but translucent

my fingers curled around ...

Categories: wallpapered, identity, imagination, introspection, philosophy,
Form: Narrative

Getting better

...It's amazing how much I thought I had healed.
I thought I found safety and happiness,
That I was moving past all the hurt from before.
But it just snuck it's way into this home.
Until every corne...

Categories: wallpapered, abuse, conflict, depression, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

The Summoning

...(A mystic whispers)

Through this scrying mirror 

Be it by
Eyes, Touch, Paper, or Phone

Let my power 
Melt your heart of stone

Through
Wind, fire, wave, and sea

I see you
Are you re...

Categories: wallpapered, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

In the twilight of life, when the sun weeps its rays on the reddened sky of memories

...In the twilight of life, when the sun weeps its rays on the reddened sky of memories,
I feel how autumn weaves its golden and rusty web over the garden of my weary soul,
Each falling leaf is a lost...

Categories: wallpapered, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

On the shore of silence, my shadow drifts, a ship adrift

...On the shore of silence, my shadow drifts, a ship adrift,
Waves in the night, stirring depths where silent songs break in contemplation,
I was just a step, a stray step, on the edge of the abyss to...

Categories: wallpapered, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Prodigal Father

...He was a father
Now he's just an example of a man with feather
Flying away from his responsibilities after/
All those words he altered.

Maybe he thought we won't survive 
Mother struggled in d...

Categories: wallpapered, absence, betrayal, break up,
Form: Prose Poetry

Clammy Hands

...My hands are clammy
as I try to unlock Uncle Nick's door,
he left me the imposing house
high on the hill as his heir,
the Victorian structure is gloomy,
and probably full of ghosts,
who will wa...

Categories: wallpapered, adventure, miracle, mystery,
Form: I do not know?

Untitled

...For the next three poems I choose "I don't know?" and "baptism" since these are old poems that I found that survived the burnings. I no longer write like this, but the last of the three is more my sl...

Categories: wallpapered, baptism,
Form: I do not know?

Hawkings Paradox

...“Another game?”
“Yes, I think so but let’s change
the rules. What if we create some
holes in the game, three or four
perhaps with parallel endings?”
“Yes, I think that would be fun.”

Who pred...

Categories: wallpapered, science, star, time, visionary,
Form: Narrative

The September of Our Lives

...From ever-earlier nightfall, the scintillating stars emerge
from September skies as from a Rembrandt canvas.
It is good, during Virgo’s mild nights,
to spread a blanket on an isolated hilltop-
ta...

Categories: wallpapered, romantic,
Form: Free verse

Portrait of An Unknown

...
Portrait of an Unknown
Written: by Tom Wright
7-18-2016

It was just an outsized oval portrait,
Dusty and washed out by time;

Always featured in the same location
During my life at...

Categories: wallpapered, remembrance day,
Form: Blank verse

The Raven Black Ravens

...it was ill thought,

my idea spoken

that sat in the trees

that branched out

unlit.

i tried to keep it quiet, 
when the finger on your lip 
screamed out to me to shush 
but th...

Categories: wallpapered, art, bird,
Form: Free verse

Wallpapered, Soloed Nudity

...today i saw the ghost of wanting
and in his finest linens, he did dress    
he was made-up of may past-up, could of have been lovers
that would like to have had been 
Perhaps, maybe, surly possib...

Categories: wallpapered, lost love, love, passion,
Form: I do not know?