I love this!Quote:
Originally Posted by hack
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I love this!Quote:
Originally Posted by hack
I love short poems. I get overwhelmed, and sometimes bored, by longer crafted works; and suffer myself to bail, even upon reading a grand poem, if there are no white space line breaks.
Much of my 'poetry' was contrived in the "Poetry in Motion" and Haiku contests by (you know), so, most of my work is very brief (incoherent at times - but brief); epitome(s) if you will.
A baker's dozen (not including my sig) from the humble works of tailor STATELY:
Listen
Give pause
to thine
humble prayers
Turn thy
mind's thoughts
to God's love
... and listen
11-1-2005
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The Sanctuary of Tears
There issanctuaryin tearsthough acold comfortsilent inits solacebe found
10-4-2005
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AtAraxis
Be not thus deceivedLest you disparage your worth
Rouse not the tiger
7-23-2005
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Winternacht
Autumn foregone
through days darken
The moon peeps
through trees
snow laden
Cold starry night
4-16-2005
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Moonbeam-Dreams
Rhythmically the ocean rolls
Welcoming a summer moon
Evoking moonbeam-dreams
Of love's fleeting nights
12-29-2004
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Love & Death
Love
death
Bitter
tears
Hush
this
pain
encaged in my
icy breast
O Lord
Release my crippled heart
12-4-2006
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The Silvered Pane
Step intomy glassasylumThe journeydescendingthe depthsof memoriesmidst wantingand weepingand pain
9-9-2006
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Repose
A bench
in the shadows
of the mimosa tree
a shimmering quiet found
a delicious serenity
2-14-2004
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All Your Base...
The Oort Cloud men
Teach of the
Planets of the sun
As ten
10-11-2006
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Snow Day
Aloft
so softly
the snow
floats and
flutters dusting
rushing children
ecstatic
in airy play
1-22-2008
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Mi
Misty minded miLike fog-bound branch of frail tree
Touch doth make me weep
5-28-2008
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Sundow'n
D' bass dey hide now
leav'n dem d' shallows be
nite-time he'ya soon
3-18-2004
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Respite
Underneathe bright azure
sky spun desire
The winds of love hesitated
breathless by a flower
1-1-2008
© tailor STATELY
Beautiful work tailor. Taylor is a family name. My brother's middle name, my grandfathers middle name( his given first name was Doctor, as in 7th son of a 7th son ), and though my father has no first or middle name, only initials, his middle initial is, ostensibly, in lieu of Taylor. Anyway, wonderful stuff cousin.
My God won't fit in your tiny box
Is that your voice, or an upper case VOX ?
I feel so alone
Now your body's gone
Dispersed, disconnected
rhythmic halting gait
mantis sways on trembling leaf
a tiny green prayer
Dark Matter
The meaning of life
is meaning, hot shot!
Pot Shot
school of hard knocks
in a varnished nutshell
Cynic's Stage
the faculty staircase
that ascends from the depths
They are great Tailor!
In Homage
a tiny web
at cathedral door
a small devotion
laid at God's feet
Overkill
ultimatum of the sexes
-kiss the other cheek
Unmourned
Love is made of stars and written quick
Lacking only the knowledge of its own death
A spade the muse that bids it farewell
Planted in infertile ground, unmarked, unmourned
...
I once saw the Blue in your eyes,
Your eyelids entangled me
I once came to this forbidden horizon
and never went back!
Immediate Gratification
mirage on the beach
emblematic trickle dunk
crossed dream of a tree
Face pressed to the pillow
I try to die to day
To get back to my dreams
Before they slip away
I do believe a cow could ski
But she would do it fearfully
Not with elan, as you and me
But, oh what damage to a tree
when the planets all stop spinning
and hurtle toward the sun
and all of man's stone temples
topple over one by one
will it all be plain then that
their gods protecting earth
did not give a tinker's damn
about man's death or birth