#embossed poems on Hello Poetry

annh Jan 2020

Less dazzle; more divinity,
Less frazzle; more fruition.

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I sweat chocolate,
Under a gold embossed sun,
Startlingly defeated.

‘Resolve, and thou art free. But breathe the air/Of mountains, and their unapproachable summits/Will lift thee to the level of themselves.’
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Flower-de-Luce, and the Masque of Pandora

#chocolate #dazzle #defeated #divinity #embossed #frazzle #fruition #gold #sun #sweat

Hanjo Nov 2015

Embossed

I hung our picture on the wall.
The pair of us, embossed.
Forever grinning from ear to ear like
The two that time forgot.

It rested there; outlined in paint
From my house; ceremonial and
Functionless. Colored squares
Purely for show-and-tell.

The frame was made of oak;
Strong and familiar.
Surrounding everything we knew
But all at once broke;

Leaving the glass in sharp angles
On the kitchen tile.
Watch the glossy paper scratch
And suddenly, the photo-finish isn't perfect.

#metaphor #sad #relationship #break-up #embossed

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