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Best Poems Written by Lea Tonin

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The Vigil

Sitting death a corpse of times loss in drips

I'll wait, she said in eons voice while zealots rage

His source of pride lay as dust once adorned

Pendulums swing marking time dresses in rust

Her echo of words speaks in his minds hollow

Soon the decay will banish her to tumble

The bend of limbs absent flesh to move

The signs of sanity melt the madness of his face

This shining vigil remains on a promise of return

His decrepit chair and spinal pour becomes one

The morass of synapse dissolves her face.

Banished the last of a believed memory

Halloweens gestures come and go in spectres

Why do I remain? The question roars

Last command with thoughts to leave results

.....in a quiet elbows creak.

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Mirror

Whispers of fingers an apparitions touch
took residence inside my mirrored bones
frantic rationale is a skeletal destination
crunchy landing of hard fossil dust
 
This sad beast of remains stands low in the sag
dry tears of sand drips down to mandible mayhem
its remnant clothing, phalanges hanging in defeat
while random flutist sings it's hollow tune
 
Fleshly hand, the kindly reach gazes in piteous questioning
living site navigates the reflecting path
the maze door answered with a riddles remedy
the skulls slow lift, the femurs rise, the mirrored ripples open

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The Gift


A gentle wave from curling leaf watches in weakness.
Green slips from shore, a purchased release.
Tender roots wash with shuttered sounds. 
Steals foundation to a diminished, poison grip.
 
Inundate with modern gift's inevitable disguise. 
The last of life, extinction blazes black.
Down slips the rocky skirts beneath the liquid lip.
A mist of remembrance where stone nuture once lay.
 
Shriveled trunk, bloated limb, a silent fiasco
We were infinity, now the singularity
Last of our kind, the jewel of what was fading.
As humans watch with insufferable

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Broken Toes

Dancing toes paint a liquiscent waltz
Fluttered limbs impossible grace
Floating form the unreal flight
Shelves of air on feathers
Ballerina's death
Preposterous
Bewildered
Starving
Art

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I Am, You Are

I am the fall leaf that spins on the branch.

The autumn flower bowing to winter's gaze.

I am the last bird to chase the fleet foot sun

The final cut of skeptical, loon grass.


You are the silent shriek of winter's gasp

The tease of times cryptic temper

You are the promise of menagerie green

The progenitor of silver scent melt


We are the bridge of blended suns rising

The continuance made it possible

We are wakers and sleepers of the in- between

The silent clip of the small hand turning

Welcome to the newborn summer

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Cremation

Cinders

Souls scarred freedom

Heaven

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Never Be Me

precipice

and the granite unmasked 

not my heart in immobility


Injustice

Disguise of righteousness

Not my soul in perpetual quake


Punishment

That which he doled smiling 

My body he forced, never will be...

me

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The Battle for All Hallows

spring morning glory loudly shivers while in quiet vine

the army of pumpkins herald the winter to come

night creatures do not belong in the spring light

steals the summer for the pumpkins reign


draculean teeth, werewolves claw - bullets to wreak havoc

witches storm with magic breath harvests springs renewal

spring takes the yoke of destruction foreign to its nature

to battle All Hallows Eve and save the birthing summer.


daring buds burst their pistilin swords 

spirits shoot forth crystalline fear tendrils

new season birds pummel vast pumpkin fields

trumpet vines snakes the eyes of pumpkin soldiers

orange blood declares Halloweens defeat

the supernatural retire, monsters shrink back to den

spring settles commencing its seasons prerogative

summer tiptoes in...

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River Wild

joy and sadness tangled fate 
one came home extremely late 
my gleeful sons rods in hand deceitful river, fish they planned

shifting forest running free 
twisting turns among the trees grinning water spies the meal 
two young boys come to heel

laughing, spinning noonday sun 
they bait their hooks in hopes of fun jumping floating rock to rock 
follows the stream with no dock

fluidic arm grasps the child 
muscled water river wild 
lost in waves shifting death 
small boy lost, weight and breath

searching, yelling, hoping, praying darkling dusk a night in making silent moan, shifting white 
brought my son to my sight.

along the banks among the trees 
lay my boy who coughed and wheezed 
in my arms my son returned 
the memory forever burned

love, live in moments they say 
So often time just slips away 
my sons they grew 
thank god for two

could have been one...
or none