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virtuoso
06-11-2013, 09:50 AM
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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tailor STATELY
06-12-2013, 07:59 PM
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

virtuoso
06-13-2013, 10:57 AM
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.