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    Two poems to serenade Tuesday

    Strangers in the Night


    Strangers meeting in the dark, quiet night
    Lonely paramours who could no longer their burning desires fight
    Two, opportunistic souls seeking infidelity's penalty to blight
    An impromptu rendezvous their amorous natures to delight
    A trite, chemical connection that shares no keen insight
    Two shadows gleefully reproaching the availing light *
    A truant love that needs only a spark to ignite
    Sprite hearts that willfully unite and secretly spite
    Froward minds ignoring their deviant course and diabolical plight
    Carefree spirits quickly bond then take flight
    Every fleeting stare. stealthy kiss pressing borrowed time with all their might
    Sharing hands lustily caress the moment, then callously wholesome love slight
    Writhing bodies cling tightly, then at dawn's first glint alight *





    The Potter's Hand


    Coarse, featureless shards stagnating
    Fodder for a discerning hand's mending
    Putty strands their potential value bleating
    For a potter's touch; new life entreating

    Gentle hands rough surface massaging
    Rubbery texture patting and preening
    Carefully each lump, fold kneading
    Instinctively more clay into mixture feeding

    Pressing the mass around the wheel now speeding
    Softly caressing, while each corner buttressing
    Holpen hands new shape, form deeding
    A spherical chalice deftly molding

    Each, cascading side symetrically scaling
    Delicate fingers each crenelation each groove formulating
    Peeling off excessive fragments, proportions receding
    Moisture from the master's hand now bleeding

    Patiently, a tidy colander forging
    With rythmic, patterned movements shearing
    An artistically, woven pot from the wheel emerging
    A magestic artifact the maestroes skill divulging **
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    The typo "Starangers" gave me an Andre Norton moment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Norton

    "The Potter's Hand" gave me pause because of two cinquans I have written which might have been married and expounded upon.

    Ping!

    Words ping!
    to sing upon
    the page being written;
    revealing the poet's nimble
    vision

    1/17/2013

    The Tanner's Heir

    I made
    a pot on a
    potter's wheel. A pot I'd
    tossed. So a pot I have got to
    pee in

    5/2/2012

    Enjoying your works.

    Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
    tailor STATELY
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    Thank you for your spiffy, short poems. I think that the 'potter's hand' is an age-old favorite, and it spills into contemporary poetry.

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