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55The Secret Life of Elephants
on tv in silence the secret life of elephants with their wrinkles in the driest mood of gray stumbling, beasts too large for reality beneath an even larger sky, across the plains on their stumpy pillars did you know elephants can...
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70Poetry by Rose West
The reason I've put this collection together is partly because of myself. I thought it would make things easy if I had all my poetry cataloged in one place. If I get organized, maybe none of my poems will get lost. Well, the other reason I put this...
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55Postcard Window, a poem
postcard window I’m on the wrong side of a Postcard Window Trapped inside a fish bowl with All the water on the other side Here I am I can do No other than stand here And let you stare at...
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65Fragility, a poem
murky mountains muddled with mist and valleys that stretch from rock to rock: the barren land i call the sea a hand lacking rings sinks beneath the fog falling under consciousness ...
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62Albatross, a poem
An albatross wise, I am Like a poet on a hill, Preening my strong-as-air feathers With sea-hardened bill. -- A devastated wasteland A thousand minutes long The vacant field of memory That...
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60Night Dies with a Drop of Dew
I feel homesick, Lying here In my dark and humid home. Light and hope are flickering In and out of shadows – Of shadows in the corners. Unfamiliar, I Am among familiar, Square angles. Try to think with...
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59Torture to Love Unloved - a Poem
Torture to love unloved, To wander about the middling obscure Fictionalizing possibilities While feeding on mediocre memories. Life is beyond the vaulted ceiling Throughout the vaulted skies ...
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54Besieged City, a poem
The sea looked at me With an ocean-deep sadness That burned my eyes with its tears It’s like a soul Afraid of Paul or the gospels The Psalms were opened upon And they burned my heart With...
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