Poetry
Poems published in Piker Press, a weekly journal of arts and literature — from lyric verse to experimental forms, haiku to epic.
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Page 129
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Will there ever be anyone remotely like him? No imitations, please...
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"...The night is a dark believer in drifters..."
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"...termites and maggots of corruption..."
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"...who's the one with the empty bucket?..."
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"...My words dissolve before they touch my tongue. But our past replays scenes..."
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"...the ins and outs of the game..."
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"...Illusions shatter in Winter..."
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"...bulged, blank, darting eyes..."
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With age comes experience, that is true. But years of experience shouldn't mask the wonder of the moment...
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"...A shimmering seed held like a star in a wiry halo..."
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"...it's the journey that matters..."
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"...so none of you will go back to your hovels disappointed..."
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"...the blue pitter-patter of your dejected footsteps..."
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"...Poetry is not an autopsy so stop lifting the sheet looking for a corpse..."
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"...They say your problems come from far. Far? Did people from far destroy your factories?.."
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"What if I had four arms? Would you still love me?..."
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"...any poem That's worth the time...
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"I find your footprints here in snow..."
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"...thunder of a hundred rusted hoppers meeting their maker..."
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"...Surely, a beast would be an improvement..."
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"...Once upon a time they lived on a farm in Ladysmith..."
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A love affair as old as civilization...
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"...in search of a rat beneath moon's dim light..."
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Novel idea...
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"...in the shadows of the towering grass blades, her pink peeping petals..."
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"...that's how it gets you..."
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"The final curse that Mwari gave, With broken heart, in granite cave..."
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"...Rich as condensed milk. Decadent as cream..."
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"... Run feral, rugged, dirty, roam grassland plains..."
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"...She might have had young girl dreams..."