Kathy Lippard Cobb Poems

Turn the bathroom light on.
Go to the bathroom.
Wash my hands.
Dry my hands.
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There is beauty found in dying
when Autumn dons her velvet gown—
A pastel landscape underlying
when Autumn strolls through town.
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Hills and valleys cloaked in fawn;
The tangled trees are leafless now.
Persephone, where have you gone?
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(A Cinquain)

Twilight:
He left today,
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(A Cinquain)

Ghost notes...
undulating
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(A Cinquain)

Heart shapes
left in paper,
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(A Cinquain)

Homeless—
the veteran
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(A Cinquain)

Your name,
inscribed in sand.
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(A Cinquain)

Night Breed—
He rises when
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(A Cinquain)

Blue rain—
your face snipped from
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