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"somnambulists" poems

11 poems containing "somnambulists"
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In Her Cactus GardenShe tends her cactus garden, / beads of perspiration, / works with a maniacal absorption.
@k-balachandran67
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Cairo JagShall I get drunk or cut myself a piece of cake, / a pasty Syrian with a few words of English / or the Turk who says she is a princess--she dances
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The somnabulist's balladMy beloved night was dense,dark, wavy, soft velvet, / fully naked, moving in rhythm with me, frenzied, sweet, / we moved heaven and earth to reach the acme of delight,
@k-balachandran23
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Parking Lot LamentVast, empty, midnight hour, / hunchbacked lampposts glaring over parasitic black earth / choking its host.
@jarjarrhine72
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SomnambulistsIncognizant of the excrement, / I'm the dozing tenant of advertised adversity. / I ignore the fact that the world now is like a toilet,
@brandon-antonio-smith28
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The SearchWe keep on searching / Inventing and re-inventing / Dexterous minds
@amitav14
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In the apartment where the dreams of past liveThe night sky of sleep / was ebulliently psychedelic, / specs of colors, yellow, brown, red,
@k-balachandran38
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Cure for InsomniaSleep visits me again, a man / in a grey overcoat, smiling, beckoning. / It's easier than you think, he tells me
@wrenderlust12
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Claude McKay was a Jamaican writer and poet. He was a communist in his early life, but after a visit to the Soviet Union, decided that communism was too disciplined and confining. McKay was involved in the Harlem Renaissance and wrote three novels: Home to Harlem (1928), a best-seller which won the Harmon Gold Award f...

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