Best Collage Poems

Here you are, only twelve, at our kitchen table.
Such a carrot top you were! Strangers used to think
you were our red-head mother’s natural son.

And here’s that photo you took of me at college.
Though you’re not in it, how could I ever forget
it was you in...

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My heart seeks the smoky quartz sage within you, in secret,
like a solitary star adrift in the whimsical wilderness.
For I remember your voice, that manifested mellifluous musicality,
nurturing vain verses to thrive like lavender-incensed lilies,
glowing with sun-stroked flames of empathetic iridescence,
emanating sealed serenity amidst the archaic...

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Old place, old faces
Standing in the rain
Years ago, tears ago
No longer feel the pain
Tales to tell, escape from hell
Waiting for a train
Memories, ambitions, dangerous conditions
Reaching for the stars
I can sigh, I can fly
No longer feel the scars
I am here, I am there 
Returning from the...

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“Grandfather, grandfather! At school today,
a classmate hit me with a book.
The teacher made him stay inside
for recess. She said he was a good boy 
who did a bad thing. What did she mean?”

“Grandson, I will tell you a story.
All men have inside of them two...

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1.
colored leaves in yard
memories spice stew on stove -
sound of friend’s car door

2.
open sunny days
dandelion seeds float by -
all my options gold

3.
planting to be done
windows close doors swing open -
nature loves a hand

4.
my timetable now -
more rainbows can be enjoyed
green pastures shared


Long Tooth
June 8, 2016...

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Native American collage





Traditional tribals that followed Sioux religion,
Had spiritual beliefs
performed controversial dance ceremonies,
Waken- the great spirit
was one universal source,
Mother Earth birthed all
animals, plants and humans,
Black Elk sheltered all,
The sacred hoop said unity,
Circles symbolised oneness,

Invisible Great spirit was Sioux God,
Thunderbird powerful spirit of sky,
Underwater spirits that...

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"Sit Down Young Stranger"  And I'll tell you a story
Of a troubadour who sang about "The Way I Feel"
I stood in his "Shadows" just "East of Midnight"
Couldn't believe my "Summertime Dream" was real
I "Salute" the man who sang about "Sundown"
His music helped ease my...

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Nature's tapestry
diversity reflected
in a pond's mirror....

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Memories of  a  love I’m losing
arrested  thoughts on sculpture paper-
an altered photograph, adorned
 by hand cut leaves, evergreen shades, and lace
From the page emits, cricket songs
 drifting  to gloaming,  and on and on
 into my own mandarin twilight.

I adjust a...

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Grandpa’s collage holds beloved memories.
Black-and-white photographs of long ago
strewn with tape and paste amid the glossy 
snapshots, shaping a man's love of family.
At first glance, one would think he created 
his patchwork of pictures in haste. But come, 
look closer; no image is placed by...

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#1
I weigh way too much
serendipitous fashion
jeans are low riders

#2
I weigh way too much
suspender’s keep ass covered
gravity loses

Long Tooth
July 24, 2016...

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a once vibrant, now discolored rose,
a memory of past that faded too fast
now teeters atop an old photo
my fingers stumble past it knowing
if touched its petals would crumble
it's a perpetual reminder
of how fragile life really is

the wedding photo, young lovers exchange
promises of heart till death...

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With chinchilla glass
ocean waves lapping my toes
fancy flights take off.

Wren pecks at my thoughts
as it perches on tree stump
posing as prince toad.

Caveat flashing light
intrudes in my dreamy state
warns me to leave prince...

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River hugging banks
its current flowing, winding
through a bridge ahead.

Gabled bridge framework
breaks blue of sky, like woman
steals rainbow promise.

Rainbow chases sky
laughing at man’s ceaseless dreams
to find pots of gold....

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On one sultry August day
In a clearing in the woods
Within a long delay
for salvaged auto goods
Amid decaying vans, under glaring sun
High above one ant, homebound, on the run...
   Along a rugged trail
   of micro hill and dale
   Between pebbles...

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