Five Poems

Hello friends,

This week, five poems from my collection FABRIC (which will go out of print sometime between now and July 12th…). Enjoy!

TRANSFORMATIONS (Anagrammed Lines)

Transformations
first ran on atoms
in strata — no forms
or mantras. No fits....

A firm noon starts,
as from torn satin.
Soon, far tints arm
far moon transits.

Transformations
form stars, anoint
arts, form nations
of man or transits
of storms — in an art
far torn into mass,
stir formats anon.

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SEERS! (Palindrome by Pairs)

Seer,
ever this see —

as, temporal, 
a poem sees
odes seem polar:

A poem’s tease 
is the reverse.

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MAZES (Haiku, Words with A & Z)

Zaniness blazing,
jazzy stanzas waltz bizarre
wizardly mazes.

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SIX-LETTER SONNET (Lipogram)

As seasons tease
a toast anon,
so neatness sees
a set as one.

Sonatas soon
atone, to sate
a neon noon.
Notes assonate.

A neat sestet
attests to stone —
a sonant net,
a tenet’s tone —

as assets test
a sonnet’s nest.

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A QUATRAIN

From ‘four’, this tiny poem grew. 
Each atom thus made ever fine. 
You’d trap, then free, with able glue.
You’d bind each foot, each word, each line.... 

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