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Like Mother, Like Daughter

Your hair 
Is the envy of the autumn sun 
It holds winter close
Your lonely eyes 
Map the secrets of Venice
Behind a carnival mask
Your ears 
Are vessels to your heart
Where armies invade
Your cheeks 
Are like ocean tides
Shifting with the moon
Your lips 
Are polished flowers
Sprouting from melted concrete
Your face is like my own
Too much so

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Abbi

She strikes a chord 
With many, mostly fear
For a decade now or so
She grown a foot a year

She lacks the gift of 
Sound and fair sight
How amusing it must be
To cause such a fright

Bring her a furry friend
And you’ll make her day
Beastly, I suppose but who
Likes squeaky creatures anyway

Yes, she comes to me in the night
Truth is, it’s become the norm
Not because she finds me tasty
But because she finds me warm



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The Idle Writer

Go on, put pencil to paper
Coordinate mouth and mind
Leave it not ‘til later
Lest this heart ascend 
In the meantime
Remember the bruise 
That smiled
And the laugh that cried
Every aching moment compiled 
Every tear soon to dry
How simple it should be
To express the soul 
In tune or ink
I should hope it isn’t only me
Too suffocated to think
Mediocrity poisons the mind
And paralyzes the hands
Unyielding, this thing called time
The ambiguous notion, made by man
Despite objection 
The moments tick by 
Breath by breath
It leaves me
Tremors melt in soft sighs
The pen is idle
Inspiration flees
Hands sit less than steady
The ceiling holds a blank stare
My brain has grown thick and heavy
And still, my page is bare

Copyright © Bebe Marlini | Year Posted 2011


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