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Re: Sky Poets of Dreamtown. by Will Dockery

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by: Will-Dockery - Wed, 17 Apr 2024 15:49 UTC

> Will Dockery wrote:
> Sky Poets of Dreamtown
>
> How could I ever know, sleepy lizard girl,
> how would I have known?
> In my flight from Rubbishtown, Shadowville,
> you were waiting for me?
> Providing silver rope and nuggets,
> comfort for my tarnished-
> seed man blowing in the breeze?
>
> Tone- spit the mystic substance on me.
> Stone- the Sky Poets call me from the rocks.
> Black and silver birds like bells.
> Shell- you are clever.
> Bone- it shines with your wetness.
>
> The Sky poets take note of:
> Sleepy lizard girl
> on the waves at midnight,
> riding glowing foam.
> They wander the broken orange moon.
>
> Rainbow Sky Poets,
> out there,
> they ride with the distant lightning brothers.
> Where thunder sounds like a clanging bell,
> or like tin cans clattering.
> I then hear the far off sound of sirens,
> perhaps an ambulance on A1A.
>
> In this dreamtown, I am:
> far from Shadowville.
> On the last day, I, a Sky Poet,
> sliced my foot on a rock.
>
> -Will Dockery (c)2003

Another poem from the archives.

This is a response to the post seen at:
http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=657844879#657844879

Saint: A dead sinner revised and edited. -- Ambrose Bierce

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