Category Archives: Line-a-day Poem

One line per day becomes a long poem after a year!

diamonds in winter’s crown.

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As a colour, colourless:

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Replace that cliche.

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as a colour, blue as ice.

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The nature of cold:

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becomes itself, unadorned.

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the room emptied of Christmas

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Without scent or lights,

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Chains of gold, ornaments: boxed.

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Exit the balsam.

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where cell walls wait to be breached.

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Spirit, soul: free in her mind

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seeks freedom elsewhere.

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rejects her physical self;

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She, shackled and bound,

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her essence; when she lives, dies.

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Her body confines, defines

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A prison of cells?

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Bones, flesh, gray matter, veins, blood?

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What is she, she asks.

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under lips, that smile — her skull.

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the mask that hides what she knows:

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She stares at her face,

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in a mirror framed with vines.

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Her sharp reflection

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to life’s choreography.

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in the arts. To pirouette

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Well schooled? Yes, of course,

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a new dancemaster for death.

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Wanted: dead or alive,

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