Yul Poems - Poems about Yul

You’re Steve McQueen cool, or so you believe But you’re up to no good and it’s easy to see. There is no disguise and you’ll never be misunderstood. You think double O’s ain’t got nothing on you. You play what you’re dealt like you’ve nothing to lose. One look in your eyes tells the world that you’re up to no...

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The baby was a chrysalis The woman a butterfly. Your age now is mine When I was yours And held you on your first day Coming into the world So time rolls From me to you, but I Have never seen the thing And believe The frost upon my hair Is only a change of season A climate of my age....

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Through and through your liquid whole Your magma rumbles Beyond control One day the smoke and ash Bellowing at the sun's rich light Will come to a narrowing Where the vent By your convulsive activity Is choked You will see me then The way I always am Blistered, barren, scarred By other's wrath before And yet forever flowing Around the paths The liquid fire cooled to dam You will know...

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Let us wean our bodies from the day Sleep, my darling child, sleep, I say Dream and let dreams carry cares away Sleep, my darling child, sleep, I say See how the sun too turns to its rest Sleep, my darling child, sleep, I say And moonlight rise to balm your breast Sleep, my darling child, sleep, I say Hear it in the...

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Child, when you begin to remember, whose memory Do you remember best? Is the one told to you by bias Art, and reinforced by a contentious history? Is it the one imagined while we are apart, the pale Judas Of all grieving heart? Or did you take time to scan The logic in your head again, the silver in your...

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