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Portrait of an Entertainer

I saw a photograph
You, ageing
in your ambition,
still hopeful,
your many masks
lying naked on the floor

Philia

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Clay

I wish there were thirteen gods in the sky,
even twelve might achieve it:
Or even one god in me: Alone,
I can't shape an image of her.

Alfred Kreymborg (U.S.A., 1883–1966)

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At Slumber's Door

My love, drift away into sweet sleep
dream your way into a lovely paradise
holding my hand and kissing my lips
until sunrise and
I awake in your arms.

Ken Allan Dronsfield

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Mrs. Darwin

7 April 1852.
Went to the Zoo.
I said to Him-
Something about the Chimpanzee over there
reminds me of you.

Carol Ann Duffy

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I Know not whence I came,
I know not whither I go;
But the fact stands clear that I am here
In this world of pleasure and woe.
And out of the mist and murk
Another truth shines plain –
It is my power each day and hour
To add to its joy or its pain.

Ella Wilcox

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The Weight of Words

Eggshells ***** under the weight of words
How is one to walk on them?
Fear breeds silence
Silence builds walls
Speak your mind or go
Remain not in silence, but freedom

PrttyBrd

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Apology

The beautiful woman
wears the same dress,
twice.

Rosemary Royston

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The Great Figure

Among the rain and lights
I saw the figure 5 in gold
on a red firetruck moving
tense unheeded
to gong clangs siren howls
and wheels rumbling
through the dark city.

William Carlos Williams (U.S.A., 1883–1963)

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Ianthe

From you, Ianthe, little troubles pass
Like little ripples down a sunny river;
Your pleasures spring like daisies in the grass,
Cut down, and up again, as blithe as ever.

Walter Savage Landor (England, 1775–1864)

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Purest Form of Life

White doves in the sky endless,
formless white of light.
Apron that encircles
present in form,
and thought womb
offered later Arms
to embrace Mother,
chaperone for life.

Seema K. Jayarayan

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December (Eschaton)

At the last day
the students leave the gates and exit into Summer.
They ramble out in packs, together,
but wander from each other;
Drift off on roads alone
looking for home.

Matthew Arkapaw

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I fear this
contented pasture. This
valley of easy ground
Where
every high mast
is doused before
the banner unfurls ...

Todd Rokholm

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So what?

The difference between
autonomy and arrogance
is thin just like a fish frightened
away by flutter of winds in water
or, a flicker of sounds
breaking a dream.

Debasish Parashar

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Longing

Ever since you touched my wrist, the world is a room full
of apples.

Kate Angus

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Wind caresses
the golden wheat.
Field's yearning
for the new seeds.
Dreams lingered,
deferred until
the next fallow season.

Soodabeh Saeidnia

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we are, the demons

the monsters have moved
from under the bed.
they're living all around you,
all throughout the life you've led.
the demons no longer reside underneath,
but are the reflections
in the mirrors,
staring back at you and me.

C. Snodgrass

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Enlightenment

sitting in silence
the opening of a door

Jessica Thompson

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Lune de la Luna

sky fisherman
finds a hooked moon
dangling on the line

Elizabeth Alford

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COMMITMENT

Six inches of snow churned into mud
as the cow circles the stiffening body,
lowing,
urging her calf to rise.
Five days she guards his lifeless form,
from coyotes
and me,
as I leave a daily ration of hay.

Patricia Frolander

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on the plane ride home
sunset rides the wing,
reaching through my window

Elizabeth Alford

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Frog prince

I kissed a frog,
And became a prince.
But, was stolen by another princess.

Leeanne Jjang

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Honeybee, Woman

Even the young workers
care for the youngest.
We forage, we dance.
We cook, we clean.
We guard the family.
All in a day's work.

Julie Brooks Barbour

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No Sapling Love

We are two old oaks
rooted each in our patch of earth
leaning together
crowns near enough
for the sparrows to flit
through our mingled branches.

Mary E. O'Dell

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Envoy

The night before last night
I heard that to make songs to girls
And to make prayers to God
Were of equal value In the eyes of time:
Provided, that is, That the prayers
Are sufficiently beautiful.

Anonymous (Burma, 20th century)

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Ianthe

From you, Ianthe, little troubles pass
Like little ripples down a sunny river;
Your pleasures spring like daisies in the grass,
Cut down, and up again, as blithe as ever.

Walter Savage Landor (England, 1775–1864)

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Lost

Is the abuse ever going to end?
According to God,
it's considered a sin
I'm battered, bruised and torn apart
How could there be anything left of my heart?
Sorrow and pain
overwhelm my day
LOST for words as
I try to pray

Krista S. Clark

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Extinguished

Spontaneity Connections and chemistry
The heat ripped through us
fast forward through four decades
The fire has been extinguished.

Leslie Deluka

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Divorcing the Strong Man

the never retrieved
beads he
cleaved from her neck
clattered to the floor
scattered
beneath the chest
of drawers

Joanie DiMartino

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Psalm Two

I don't need a chin to rest upon this clenched fist.

I don't need fists to blindly pound the earth, or sky.

I don't need earth to tell where the body has been or sky to remember where it has not.

John Sibley Willians

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Tears and Leaves
Like leaves in autumn,
tears fall from my eyes,
your name written
gently
upon every one.
Missing you, my heart
shall forever cry
until my final breath
has come and gone.

Blanca Alicia Garza