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  May 2022     8 months ago

Submitted Poems 7 total

L-Lee

were on the carpet
smelling of
your family's
wild sad history
that wilting light blue dress
you wore
a fake summer patch
across your waist
spilling around
us
I noticed your eyes
now a strange green
entering...

– by W. Wessels

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added 1 year ago
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Dolphin Room

the dolphin room
a milky night sways lazily alert
pressing sleep upon her so
the wide bats may come to the dark fig tree
beside the window
inside the scented breath
hot sticky smell of fruit
falling heavily in the soft wet ground
she...

– by Wessel Wessels

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added 13 years ago
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K park

One side of the house your room where we
used to sit was always colder
everything round there died in winter
Boeings cut corners in the pale sky
above us and the smoky stacks of
misty factories on the fringe
of that gray suburb where we grew up
I...

– by Wessel Wessels

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added 13 years ago
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Distant sounds from the stadium

Days here lean
against my favorite tree
growing shrinking shadows
across a canvassed lawn
I watch the painting in progress
observe every hour's slowness
how the blank face of this building
- the bricks' constant change
red to black and back again
we...

– by Wessel Wessels

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added 13 years ago
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All The Mornings We Missed

First
immaculate sunset
when the fire burns high
Then
strange transformation
new perception
Ancient knowledge...

– by Wessel Wessels

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added 13 years ago
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