Zane Gilley Poems

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1.
A Thing Of Beauty

It hung there, dormant stirred by only wind,
A barely twisting nod, the greeting swing.
And armed by one with ivy loose entwined,
It torqued awaiting, someone or something.
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2.
Multiplicity

When the proverbial
has become
a sanguine languish,
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3.
Occupation

The barrels burn the unpaid fines, yesterday's news,
and fast food wrappers, licked clean to warm the fingerless
gloves that stray too close to the fire and too far
from the identity of a brown bag store.
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4.
Upon The Thames

The global tide awashed up on the Thames,
The whales and sharks to dine in finest flair
And witness bearing Herculean flames
With lessers left unthroned with gasps for air.
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5.
Castles Of Convenience

Erected high on sun white sand
Are fantastic golden castles
Made to order by dreaming architects.
Now we shall dance together
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6.
States Of The Union - Nevada

When johns with shriveled egos come to find
That paid relationships oft further bring
Despair and lonely apathy to mind,
The pricks of love administer their sting.
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7.
States Of The Union - Indiana

A knock on wood is but the courtesy
When police whims suffice to cast their sights
To enter homes with all impunity
Of violated men's defensive rights.
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8.
States Of The Union - Louisiana

When each transaction must be written down,
Recorded for perusal by the law,
When people become known by what they own,
Instead of showing others who they are,
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9.
The Games

The blood gets curdled, paralyzed by stripe
With feelings delicately played and soothed
By televising horrors - mindless tripe
Enacted by the witless and untoothed.
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10.
The Bearers

When Jefferson his Declaration wrote,
Encircled by the fellowship of friends,
Decrying tyrannies of bloody coat,
The freest men used violence for amends.
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