Leslie Philibert Poems

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1.
The Night The Moon Got Stolen

In the night the moon got stolen
lunatics shook their fists at empty heavens,
cats stared at holes in the dark night
and seas turned into lakes, tides refused,
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2.
A Dry-Stone Wall Near Coleraine (For Seamus Heaney)

As if the pale stones
share the warmth
between two sides;
sea and field cut,
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3.
A Summer Poem

You are the burnt map of Summer
black-edged with lost words
that make the heat a blanket
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4.
A Funeral In Winter

Early darkness; as oil we drip on tarmac,
a gathering in black fallen from the sky.
With lemon faces we shadow the next.
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5.
Hospital

Doors moan like lovers, as compassion flows
like sick over scrubbed floors.

Controlled circumstance of pity,
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6.
The Secret Life Of Stones

Stones are family. They move in earth and water and are so strong
they cannot be beaten. Stones live within themselves without fear.

They change in winter through ice and in summer through sun.
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7.
A Better World

China will be declared part of the Peoples Republic of Tibet;
Somalia will send food parcels to the Swiss and the Mexicans will build
a fence to prevent illegal immigration from the United States. There
will be a Queen in Saudi-Arabia and Pussy Riot will be elected to
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8.
Synecdoche

Fat books and dead poets
Scattering in envy over my floor

Each backless like a flipped crab
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9.
Questions

There are many questions that worry mankind
Has Katie`s sister got a lovely behind?
Is there life on Mars? , or even in the States?
Will Obama and the Iranians ever be mates?
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10.
And Then

Outside I hear the sounds of children,
the sounds do not get louder or softer,

just a small stone in the hand of a morning,
legs splayed and weak obscurely in cotton,
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