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December 2021 Collage Poem: Chariot of Obscurity

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The exact translation for the exact word for snow.

The winter night was the start of a new fake world,

with the death of truth and lost poets caught in the deep wild minds of hope.

How can butterflies and mirrors and snow be possible while hearts are breaking?

I thought of howl and the shadow of gunman sinister betrayal.

It was a dusky farewell

A monarch butterfly landed on Boris’s nose thinking crowned he combusted in a shower of sparks.

Whirling winking syballes in the snow is all I have left when you just left me all on my own.

Seagulls of the nightclub did not let me sleep

Taking selfies with Boris rustling his guilt at the office party with cheese and chips.

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December Collage Poem

◄ November 2021 Collage Poem: Perplexing Forms

January 2022 Collage Poem: Seagulls of the Nightclub ►

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Nigel Astell

Wed 15th Dec 2021 01:54

The month ends
yet another year
with mixed emotions
do we keep zoom
on stand by
while meeting up
if safe to do so ?

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Nigel Astell

Mon 13th Dec 2021 14:23

Chocolate fingerprint paper
Christmas cheer intended
grim material collected
last Collage poem
for 2021 written.

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