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  June 2021     2 years ago

Submitted Poems 6 total

Sweet Chariot

It was a secret singer
and had a soulful song.
It wrapped like wind
around the trees -
in darkness sped along.
Its path was wild and twisted
and lonely as a tomb.
Its mournful voice
a weary wind
that sang down depths of gloom.
At last it found me...

– by Judith E. Borenin

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Imogene

Imogene imagined.
When she slept
she dreamed.
Such awful dreams.
They shook her awake
and reality was
a cold and silent floor.
So she imagined some more.
Until the floor was warm
with the tread of
someone there.
She grew cobwebs
in her hair...

– by Judith E. Borenin

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Blooming

I am his daughter
and heavily guarded.
This house, dark, undaunted,
smells of twenty year old
flowers from her funeral.
The scent drives him mad.
Oh, mother, my mother, your
death blooms fill his head.
His eyes, when they assess
me, petal oveer with...

– by Judith E. Borenin

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The Empty Room

A mother's face - a windy face
hazy and blurred by absence.
Someone must have known her but no one does.
An empty room - remember, remember...
the sun on your back and the voice
"the angles have taken away your mother".
Her image has gone with them...

– by Judith E. Borenin

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Cat and Mouse

Silence slips softly in
encountering prey.
She encircles white throats,
spreading her fingers,
intending nothing.
Moving mindless, her languid
motions invade the void.
Only the cat, black with mysteries,
sees her fingers weave the air.
His green...

– by Judith E. Borenin

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