Tagged: poem 11

Loneliness Poems 0

Cosmos

Poem   On an eyelash I wish someone would whisper “It’s the cosmos, darling.” I wish for a twilight drip of their stardust on my shoulders and fixate my rootless eyes to ground, who’ll...

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The Train-car

I touch the walls of this old wooden train-car. My hand feeling first the roughness of wood from another time and place. My feet standing where others from stories past once also stood that...

Freestyle Poems About Life, Window Vase 2

Watching Too

Freestyle Poems   Late into the night it watches me doing my necessary duties, complaining on the phone, reading in bed, setting my alarms, making preparations for the coming tomorrow, like an estranged lover...

Sparrow 0

Contemplations for a Sparrow

I have some contemplations for a sparrow When you perch Wrap your claws around Do not flap your wings Perch The wind will rustle the leaves And you may judge yourself clinging But in...

Model 0

Angels

Young angels plucked from beds, and draped in Gucci. Wings clipped before they even knew they could fly, reduced to perfect camera captured catwalk steps. Shoulders forward, pelvis forward, eyes forward. Do not fear...

Liberty Bird 0

Encaged

Captive bird Imagines; Spreading his wings Wide spanned feathers, to the wind he sings Rest is nonstop for this kind of bird Bars separate him From the world he chose. Solitude of a life...

Mountain Top 0

The Vision

My hands turned into a million White butterflies Rushing to the moon Where am I going? To the drops and the whispers To the winds and the tops To the shortness of life Filled...

Gorilla in the Park 0

Write Like Glen Duncan

Let me write like Glen Duncan. I would top every Christmas list And prayer, Send it seaward in bottles and Skyward on doves If I thought it would make it one iota more likely....

Home Bar 0

Don’t Forget

Sap at just about every turn leaves a man feeling crash “turn” meaning the phrases avoided on the way to the fridge he calls his bar the shot of water in a half-broken glass...

World Trade Center 0

Diary from an Empire (III)

14.08.21 Bombs dropped elsewhere — in the empire I awake to this benefit. 14.08.22 whenever I drive a humanist loses hope at least a little 14.09.30 Punish the arena owners severely! Imperial citizens should...

Rituals 1

Rituals

It’s the precise way that you place the tiny spoon Back into the porcelain cup of white crystal sugar After spooning exactly two into your coffee Then, standing lightly upon your toes, Place it...