Rainydayrex's Poems

Here's the list of poems submitted by rainydayrex  —  There are currently 4 poems total — keep up the great work!

WE LAY WAR

lay war
dead shoulder
to shoulder in blank
friendship,
line graveyards
in perfect rows
as if to confound
death with our preciseness.

startled by the carrion's blue
and winking eye
the child wonders
if this is how the hero feels,
...

– by Perry Thompson`

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added 5 months ago
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APHONIC

do not speak but
curl through bare trees.
hollow, they whisk
snow in its sleeping.

winter breezes cure,
cure normalcy so
we may swirl and
finish in silence.

finish. to finish our
breath peacefully,
cease suffering as
snow...

– by John Perry Thompson

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added 6 months ago
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ARTEMISIA ABSINTHIUM

dipped her ankles in blood which first
warmed her feet then turned cold like ice.

she dipped her tongue in fear tasting
first of life and soapwort, then of rot.

she dipped her soul in thee who opened
ways of love and kin then ways of...

– by Perry Thompson

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added 1 year ago
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POEM FOR MY WIFE

summer’s cool early evening, filled glasses
of silver champagne, soft aroma of tobacco
mixed with fragrances from the garden --
red cigarette pack on the tablecloth or a pipe
bowl resting against an ashtray. these, the
days leading to autumn...

– by Perry Thompson

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added 1 year ago
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