The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise
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"The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise"
They called her
the tree hugger,
her forest was full
of trees that watched
silently, they had
no mouth to speak,
rustling the...
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Categories:
warpaint, dark, light, muse, mystery,
Form: Narrative
Calamine Warpaint
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sunrise warms my face
the morning's first visitor
alights on a cheek
streaked with calamine warpaint
my day begins with murder
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Categories:
warpaint, morning, murder,
Form: Tanka
Beyond G
...He parks, cuts the engine, sits for a moment,
headlights dimming.
He tries to rationalize why he is here,
why he is still racing to be free of his own gravity.
The store is a low level spaceship...
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Categories:
warpaint, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Warpaint
...Today I took off the war paint
Laid down the mask
And showed my face to the world
Not the face of my dreams
Not the smooth, unmarked skin of my youth
Not the face that you loved
When we first...
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Categories:
warpaint, beauty, self, women,
Form: Free verse
Happily Ever After
...I’ve cried tears so heavy they left track marks on my cheeks,
And I’ve loved so deeply that Ive lost myself,
That’s my curse my cross to bare,
No half measures
No ing about
It’s all or nothing ...
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Categories:
warpaint, relationship,
Form: Free verse
Colour Study
...what colour do we wanna look at?
red, of course, like the doorway i knew in childhood
like the blood whispering through the pipes of an egret
it doesn’t matter
yawning voice draining unconscious ...
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Categories:
warpaint, color, depression, dream, fear,
Form: Prose Poetry
Punctuated In Time
...Cant lift my eyes beyond half past seven anymore
Nay! I do not wish to see...
Past hyphens and inverted commas
Lies and more catastrophe
Ambidextrous clock with appalling brevity
The second ha...
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Categories:
warpaint, abuse, art, humanity, imagery,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Apache Warriors
...Deep in the woods I can hear a twig snap
A bird goes into flight that was sitting on a limb beside me
And it just so happens that right now we are at war with another tribe
But I must remember the cr...
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Categories:
warpaint, society, soldier,
Form: Free verse