Kathy Lippard Cobb

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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(For Sara Teasdale)

Her words, a tapestry of brilliant colors—
topaz, silver, crimson, and indigo.
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Sunsets fade to black
seasons change
love moves through its cycles...
romance, marriage, divorce
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I don't understand you;
I've given up trying.
You just walked away
and never looked back.
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Shadows returned when you left—
taunting and teasing with glimpses of light.

Wrapping me in a velvet cloak—
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Lost in darkness,
Without a tomorrow,
River of tears—
drowning in sorrow,
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Diamonds and stars trade places,
fooling a velvet-coated sky—

Stars sparkle on my fingers,
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perhaps
one day soon
I will disconnect
the cable
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tiny clover
on the brink of perishing

no one notices
the plight of this
...

a four leaf clover sprouts
from a crack in the pavement—

desperately trying to make it out—
seeking freedom from its enslavement
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