Poems
By seafret
Ancient and modern
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fuerte
I clap my hands – a wave forms Arcs, falls Somewhere stone breathes out.
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Between the lines
Maybe it’s time to write the lines Of how and who I loved and lost. Maybe its fine between the lines To write of paths tangled and crossed. Maybe it’s good to note the blood
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vortex
Constrained restrained I meet you, Vortex. Wild walls of whirling wind greet you Thoughts preparing to spin out Wound back in Skeined Unrefined Grated raw by debris Detritus
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wayside shrine / kinetic
Take flight to the wayside shrine on wings. Shells and feather shine - glint oh the remembering of the ending the overlay of patina of shimmering...
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On and On
And from it all came a poem And from it all came a song And from her lips came a word And from his heart came a groan And after all was said and done...
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Fences
While the birds played at being planes The planes played at being birds While the girls played at being brides The brides played at being girls...
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As it is?
The washed-clean world wavers, dips, Shakes itself legitimate Spits out a hen's tooth, a curate's egg, a unicorn embryo Denies the night before The...
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Give me the image of my soul
I wish it would come The day dream figure The half-imagined stab at truth I wish it would come into night time Make itself less amorphous More...
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Bounded by...(North Bernica)
If I lived back here How would that be? Bound by the tides and Deep family history. Tethered, While stray buzzards prey overhead While gray dolphins...
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Small comfort
It is so still, to speak would break the spell. Snowdrops scattered at hedge sides. (I don't remember that.) Trails of sky-snails smoke. Small...
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(Past) Tense
The world has tired me, today. Too many scraps of ghosts of me, of them. Too many flitting shapes at the corners. Too draining to keep count, stay...
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In the hollow
There are four walls somewhere to hold me. Four walls, slate floor Dappled light Salt air. Four walls to scaffold me As I gently fall apart and...
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Spirals (a 20 year old remnant...)
I am spirals. I see the best and worst of me Periodically. The twists and turns of my life Pass by overhead But I can't meet again, Relive, Those...
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Starman
(Head of lead.) Tears for years, Bedroom companion Barely electric record player Chameleon, comedian, Corinthian and caricature. Always there, thin...
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Hard hearted?
My heart bleeds, leaves Sits in a ruin by the sea Drinks brine Eats kelp Barnacled but free.
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Berlin 1
How many times have I died in a dream? How many faces viewed on a screen? I see boys, poised in the frame Ready to travel, to labour in vain. And...
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Peace Mission
I looked for peace inside And found a strange and gnarled yearning I walked I looked for peace in the nearest church The Catholic mass blared from...
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Professor Avril Henry: An alternative and very tardy eulogy
You instantly expand my provincial horizons. Just by me seeing you. It is 1988. I am Goth. You are terrifying. You are awesome. Your mind as sharp as...
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Hetha in the kirk
The Gore tex rustle fades, the hikers leave and I have the place to myself Me and the tattered shards of the Christ god The thick walls holding back...
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West is the best?
I could go no further east Birthed near the breakers Toes on the reef edge Limited by the cold sea I looked to the west And lost myself in the...
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