Category: poets united
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Redacted Plucking At Another Daisy
Plucking at Another Daisy That curiously shrill voice.A peacockpulling long, nervous fingers. She was reckless.So reckless. After all thathissing tragic whisper.And laughing at beginning; the best ending. Plucking another daisy. Source: “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, by Oscar Wilde. Gutenberg Project, Release Date: October 1, 2008 [EBook #26740] http://www.gutenberg.org/files/26740/26740-h/26740-h.htm written for Poets & Storytellers…
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for Poets United
The Look I rememberit was the season of acornsand blow-sideways long-winded cloudsand tidal nights,and the weather was a serpentthat God had createdfor poets to muse over, like they do about a proper English summer, or a cast iron cooking pot preferred by cannibals in New Guinea, …
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Her Fruit
Her Fruit She’s in the corner with the brass and bronze, like a passing thought that takes refuge in wrinkled silks of sweet grape gold and liquid purple. Arranged, liked an orange whose peel scantly exposes juice and fruit — so provocative — and arresting. There for the taking. Her fruit. Her sweet wine. An…