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That Smile of Yours Is Spectacular! (Why Are You Hiding It, Sweetheart?) | Paul Tristram - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

That Smile of Yours Is Spectacular! (Why Are You Hiding It, Sweetheart?) | Paul Tristram

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…as timid and nervous as a fallow deer,
edge-peeking from New Forest edges.
‘Blushes’ warm and circling busily.
Hesitant speech… in
‘Slow To Start’ but ‘Curtailing Quickly’
musical, breathless, flourishes.
I often sit quietly, listening
to the distant echoes of her Depth.
Thoughtfulness becomes an art form,
Shyness a beautiful maze to ponder around.
Frowns that ripple through concentrated pages
of the ‘Book of Life’ she reads awkwardly
with tears, giggles and white-knuckled wonder.
Her favourite words are ‘Gosh’ and ‘Petal’
does everything important (and most things are!)
at least five times before actually moving.
Manners of ‘A Gentleman’ whilst ‘The Lady’
beams and shines forever through…
But it’s when she momentarily forgets herself
and laughs merrily with sparkling eyes,
that Magic bursts alive and Miracles become true.

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The Cruelty of Strangers | James Diaz - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

The Cruelty of Strangers | James Diaz

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Some cannot hold their anger
when it roars
it’s mostly blinded inside
unable to say one true thing about itself.

“I find it sad,”
you once said to me
“How people can learn to be so petty,
hold grudges, burn others
with unkindness.”

“They didn’t learn it,
they chose it,”
some other part of me
on a bad night
might say.

Benefits of doubt
can easily be wasted.

I too have stood at the edge of things
water towers bathed in light
across the field.

I am no one’s villain
the loneliest road
the one that you feel so sure of
packed away beneath
what cannot be named
cruelly or gently.

We will survive this
one world
wounded and bitter to spite selves
sharing only shatters,
unattended –
unloved in their core.

“Unbecoming” | Ryan Quinn Flanagan - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

“Unbecoming” | Ryan Quinn Flanagan

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I am sharing a bathroom with this woman
in a motel down along Kingston Road,
this woman who refuses to argue
because she says it is “unbecoming.”
As though you come more and more unravelled
as a person with each petty word you can’t take back.
And we are there for two nights.
In close quarters.
She really is a wise one.
I show her my tattoos and she runs her hands
over them like the blind reading Braille.
When we sleep tonight she will snore lightly
and I will fall asleep listening to that.
And in the morning we will find a place
for breakfast and park the car
and walk on in.

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