STAR-GAZING

               

Stargazing is beautiful in southern night.
The heavens partake in wondrous light.
       Some of the stars appear shy.
             Behind clouds they lie.
                   Silver toned
                           sky
                 the stars' home
              that needs not to try,
                or to establish a lie
   that it does not have glory and might.
Star-gazing is beautiful in southern night.

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       cat on foggy day
hard to see in frosted park
  green eyes on their own

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AMAZED BY TURQUOISE

Amazed by turquoise
in the street lights,
playing out again in tiny puddles.
There they are, on each side of the road.

Why the turquoise, Council?
But don't answer -
they're amazing...
Holy turquoise, holier than thou.

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SILVER BROOCH

silver brooch on back
clasp claiming our attention
light splits it in two

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WINE

Wine, not cheap;
sparkling in a place half-spent
and yearning for my tongue.
It is proud of rising bubbles,
as sees them small 
as in champagne. 

It admires its tumbler,
for it missed out school
on day of proper glasses
when the teacher
held one out to class
and magnified the wine.

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CLOUDS OF DDT

Playing to clouds of DDT
the children ran screaming into it -
hurried playtime in the mist...

Ten minutes of forbidden fog,
forgetting that it was forbidden...
Glorious, thickened, smoky smog.

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TULIP

Ladies -
those who lunch -
are lazy now
Their mothers went to work
earned bread

They slaved -
followed clock -
earned a pittance
but their daughters gossip -
Tulip

She's bad -
won't wake up
Ladies gossip
Tulip's much worse than they
Give up

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