Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
Silent Treatments
In the room there are the makings of dreams.Each item (balsam wood or not) adrifton purpose, whether we talk, grin or stare,whether barriers are..
© Lamont Palmer
Glacier Bay In Pure Light
Sky makes the scene believable.Twice the proportions, twice the ice,At 500 ft, the symmetryIs the god of piercing blue,The deity of lonesome..
© Lamont Palmer
Of Birds And Men In Appalachia
Flying in on the envy of watchers comes the dive,as much drawn by wind as by helpless air,as by the tiny plume, so truthful in motion,on to where the..
© Lamont Palmer
The Very Long Life
(For Doshia Watkins,1909-2011)There was more in you than in me. There wasthe outer core and the inner storm, the stagedwhispers and curtain calls..
© Lamont Palmer
The Step-Daughter
THE STEP-DAUGHTERThe E-cigarettes you love losetheir imitative skilland go limp in the faceof urges. You go with theminto a nothingness ofseveral..
© Lamont Palmer
For Thorsten Kaye
Plots come and go, like wild seas stripped of pride.In the heart of melodrama, life thrivesin various eateries and board rooms and inbeach homes;..
© Lamont Palmer
Older Dolls
She stillputs earringsin herdelicate ears.But it is the lobewhich isnow most precious;human goldupstagingflashy metal,in afternoonsquieterthanthe..
© Lamont Palmer
Little Black Dress
Before it is donned it dons the ego,tempting colors from the emotions. The silkslips like hidden thoughts from the body,even as it retains the..
© Lamont Palmer
Little Black Dress Worn And Unworn
Before it is donned it dons the ego,tempting colors from the emotions. The silkslips like hidden thoughts from the body,even as it retains the..
© Lamont Palmer
For George Michael
Blonde andhigh altoreverberations,it was a throatmade of a special soul,the edgeof serenity,at onewith thedance,from aliving motion.We learned of a..
© Lamont Palmer
Mid Spring
In your lap I find a heaven. TreelessYet breezy, in stages I am moved furtherUpwards, toward that place we once knew well,And now revisit, sometimes..
© Lamont Palmer
For B.B.
There were guitar licks in the whitest cotton.That's where the Delta became a womb, a fertile mud,Holding onto hot nightclubs, and charred..
© Lamont Palmer
Robin Williams Musing
1.Should I breathe in laughterOr just disintegrate?Rooms with windowsSeem to have no windows;The empty plants placedStrategically, resembleEverything..
© Lamont Palmer
Cutting The Losses
All lengthening dies; so goes hair and hipster styles,In what may be the last gray strand touchedOn sideburns edged toward thoughts of perfection.As..
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Maya
Where did the light in Arkansas begin?Where it could burn: spirit-flame, or beSnuffed out in an exclusive smothering.If her strength lies in the dirt..
© Lamont Palmer
Florida Colors
You have no right to be here,You loud enemies borne of allThat we fear, strident offspringsOf Emmett Till,Looking at usWith evil in your brutal..
© Lamont Palmer
The Arrangement
Perhaps my emptiness is greater than your own.To test these levels is a testy thing;Bruises from tawdry love scraped againstMy aching face, and yes..
© Lamont Palmer
Motel Clerk: Dusk
So much, so little underthe barometer of lonely light;waves have hit a silence,before the morning grasping, and justafter the sun gets up(reminding..
© Lamont Palmer
An Artist Paints A Bowl Of Fruit
1.Muted color translates into quiet sound,or the roundness of planets and moonsthat dwell here, around us, in obvious places.The room is demure, the..
© Lamont Palmer
For Gordon Lightfoot
Out there in the dire hinterlands,a vastness ebvelopes tropes of yesterday,that will never be held again.This wildness is not derivative; its..
© Lamont Palmer
Intangible Meetings.
He woke up in a sweat, not quite cold, but not typically warm, only half remembering the strange dream that filled his head before his eyes opened...
© Lamont Palmer
Garden Variety
At the florist, a ladysmelled heavenly;I grew nearlyintoxicated; swooningfrom the airin her hurried presence;air subverting agrarianism.Against my..
© Lamont Palmer
Departures
For Lori Wagner and Ian Wagner1.From the sea, the sun ascended like angels,its heat sweeping up in bursts of movement,its tense corona: hot matters..
© Lamont Palmer
The Very Long Life
(For Doshia Watkins,1909-2011)There was more in you than in me. There wasthe outer core and the inner storm, the stagedwhispers and curtain calls..
© Lamont Palmer
Variations In Yearning
'Dreams are necessary to life.' - Anais Nin1.Am I merely another hopeless David,sending Bathsheba's husband into the thickof swords? Like the issue..
© Lamont Palmer