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COLD SNAP
the third day of cracklin’ cold and take-the-dog-in nights
tee shirts under flannel under wool a forty five minute outage
forewarns that water pipes might freeze
seven inches of elegance muffles the neighborhood flake by tiny flake
delight of winter mingles with dread wires hum branches creak
phone line snorts and whirs like a helicopter
could be that we are not the masters of our world
Barbara Reiher-Meyers Multiple prize winner, many publishing credits, member of Live Poets Society, Island Poets and the LIPC. One book published, workshop leader and contest organizer, L.I. Poetry Calendar online publisher |
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FADED WARPAINT
Bruises inflicted in blackouts fade into memory’s sleeve;
seldom reappear; slipping out then quickly fade away
disguised by clown white, powder puff of poetry.
Empathy smothers rage no longer demands revenge.
Praying for the enemy takes practice.
Barbara Reiher-Meyers |
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Metamorfruitsis
The banana is a giant golden freckled finger arching and urging “Taste me, I am the ripe one for you!”
The cantaloupe is a reptilic skin encasing salmon-colored flesh a school of tiny darting fish, its slippery seeds
The coconut is a wiry brown crew-cut cracked in two hemispheres crunchy white cocolesterol
A group of grapes is an overpopulated planet plucked. consumed and decimated threadbare skeletal remains
The orange is a poreful peel protecting a womb filled with a million yellow spermatozoa bursting with energenetic force
The peach is nature’s softest wrap around chindripping flavor the furrowed pit pleads for planting
The pineapple is a multi-eyed cortex hostile honeycomb scales and serrated swords guard the golden pulp
The strawberry is a voodoo pincushion bewitching fragrance you can taste seedy teeth
Ursula Nouza interpreter and foreign language professor, member of Taproot workshop, book in progress |
