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ART OF MENDING -Poetry by guest author- Rp Verlaine

Updated: Oct 19, 2023





We do not mend

we break

letting time steal

resurgent pain

walking backwards

to where we ended

with promises.

Sweet words

made under

microscopes...

appearing as silly

as wireless puppets

attempting to dance.

Our ancestors taught

us nothing except

it's deadly to want

worse to covet

proof beyond

back pages of

our story.


Amnesia's blessings

brings us back

every time

we set each other free

from these broken binds anew.

.

Only our shadows

seen to be

complete

again

entwined but

embracing only

a stale worship of

collapsed lighthouses &

the shattering silence.




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ART OF MENDING

by Rp Verlaine


Rp Verlaine lives in New York City.

He has an MFA in creative writing from City College.

He taught in New York Public Schools for many years.

His first volume of poetry- Damaged by Dames

& Drinking was published in 2017, and another – Femme Fatales

Movie Starlets & Rockers in 2018. A set of three e-books

titled Lies From The Autobiography vol 1-3 were published from

2018 to 2020. His newest book, Imagined Indecencies,

was published in February 2022. He was nominated for a

Pushcart prize in poetry in 2021 and 2022.






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