Stephen Parker Poems

Raindrops pattering cadence doth enthrall
Anon, dripping residue with discordant notes pall

Rhythm of tapping droplets cerebral chords trawl
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delicate, pale plume
weeping branches bow to earth
winter's eulogy
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I focused my sharp lens

on your lovely image
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Once, sweet, unassuming persona so demure
Morphing into arrogant, calculating figure
Dexterous curves dancing like marionette
Now wilting shroud; prancing silhouette
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Quintain of: sorrow, despair, agony, misery, lament scoring pain
Dolesome drum o'er jaded psyche taps a dark, palling refrain
Hamstrung harp bridled soul with dissonant chords enchain
Shrill flute spills a dreary, eerie melody o'er drifting swain
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In silted apron blossoms baby
Incubating heat fondles canopy
From leafy trelis sprouts progeny
With briny tears, warmth grows quickly
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Rose petals plated on caste mold
Savory patent impressed on manifold
From Nature's palate sweet oils doled
Essence of extracted beauty flowed
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Fallowed mind on barren ground toils
Winter's cold streams radiant beams foil
No incubating current cuts through the dense soil
Muses' bright glint the dark, thick clouds roil
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Young generation ardor from sculpted hero borrows
Older generation, torpor to graft peaceful tomorrows

Can young eyes through steely sheath glimpse marrow
O'er from dried paint, the blood stains that do burrow
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In mind's castle many furnished rooms
In upper chamber, chaste virtue grooms
In lower chamber, strands of civility bloom
In antechamber, auxiliary dreams, visions illume
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