Kelly Vinal Poems

Subtle, soft, and slowly spoken
Fragmentary, burned, and broken
Overtures but covert tokens
Aimless words adrift at sea
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Is it not impossible to
Stalk this town in
Blind-man shades?
Surely, one would tend to think -
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All around we gather,
Still the one suspected least -
The banquet table, Cromwell seats,
For kings and royalty.
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I.
Funny now, the painted scenes of love abound
That stricken tick, persistent, pleasing measure
Done its final dance around, and now its final sound
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I can hear an army calling,
Foot-charge o’er bugler’s wails,
Battle horses thundering -
Infinite chariot driving mud.
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The looking down upon,
Through wisps of cloud and contrail,
Column dust and blizzard snow,
Factory plume and bomb smoke -
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When is darkness companion -
Oh sparkling twilight's
Last presence of the sun,
Yielding to the progress of time;
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Again the sun kissed down
Upon the newborn buds -
Forest branches start their cycles
Of awakening, every twig is greening
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In the place of emptiness
Softly, softness, gentlest
Bright white rays stream from the sun
Warmly, warmest, innocence
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Close me
Lump me in cocoon
When I don’t want to engage
The outside world today.
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