Cherylyn Vardi Poems

Man is an island of thought and emotion
Floating purposefully on aimless seas
Confusion and conflict float on his waters
Bleeding and aching debris
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Naked wastelands of monotony
Exhausting days of bruising suns
Under a lee of memory
Wayward winds churn crystals to dust
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Chaotic pieces of tinted glass
Kidnap loitering light
Slivered images of a history
Pause in fluid flight
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In an Arboretum of towering trees
The major attraction is the topiary
Visitors flock to this botanical art
Deaf to the tidings of twisted bark
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Syllables plunge into an ancient songbook
Octaves and sestets of obsessive love
Perusing Petrarch's Canzoniere
Iambic portrayals of Laura de Noves
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Trees of autumn weep their beauty
Aging rainbows fall onto an anemic earth
Intellectual tears of
I think therefore I am
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Shards of a broken wine goblet
Drift on the surface of withering waves
Dawn dethrones the waning night
Saffroned fingers arouse a day
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two senescent lovers
lie
between sheets of waning light.
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A metal rain falls and punctures the morning

Dialogues of dread smother the breeze
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