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Thanks Navita! tourism the cherry blossoms glissando, each tongued, like a separate woodwind note – a sweep of a gown across cobblestones, the lifting of a veil, and two candles ...

Thanks Heather! I'd really appreciate some input on this one, guys! clockwise blue gaslight of an ignited mind, a match struck, the light high and sharp like a cheekbone in ...

Hey Nav, thanks for the critique! Just wanted to address a few of your points. First of all, the reason this is called "opie's" strip malls is because of a ...

mammogram lioness lilies, posed as if for self-portraiture, brushstroke of stamen which hints the kitchen air with the pheromone of spring – you keep them around, replenished when their petals ...

Many thanks Kamas! Semyonova years of swan lake now resonate in her fluted bones, piccolo of osteoporosis, mother-of-pearl joints releasing the low note of an unplugged sigh. and when she ...

Thank you much Navita! opal fission of an atom, like the lobes of a brain, and a universe distills, dew on the upturned leaf of a theory. it warm and ...

natural history when everything was feathered, geodes splitting open like mother's locket to display a radio-full of crystals, tender uterine wall of gem and quartz. I think of how much ...

Demeter to Persephone the cross-stitches of frost are undone, untangled from the windowpanes at your approach – the flowers push through black dirt, quiet and vital as middle daughters and ...

Thanks guys! Navita >> You got it -- twelve is an age. And why dramatic? No reason -- completely arbitrary. Thanks for your comments! talking of michelangelo outside in the ...

Thanks Kamas! twelve gethsemane of poppies, ruined by the heavy summer rain, and weeping ventricled petals – I am sorry that I didn't have longer to appreciate them. lasting into ...

Thanks lily! Here's some information on Depression glass -Kylan

Thanks Demsy! Yes, I knew the vocabulary would throw people off, but the idea is that it's being written by the main character at a later date, probably as an ...

Many thanks for your critiques. Smorg -- I followed most of your advice...I hope the poem reads more like it should now...Thanks! -Kylan

First off, I want everyone to know that I consider myself a religious person, and I believe in a higher power. I'm not trying to be anti-religion in this piece, ...

Elinor, this is a continuous poetry thread. No lock. -Kylan