Gregory Wm. Gunn Poems

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1.
Images In The Afterglow * * *

I feel as rich as Croesus
while watching gold of day
dispel amid white cypress;
its final sheen's display.
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2.
Coloratura

I rediscovered you tonight
after a lengthy absence,
flourishing on the threshold
of a clover leaf,
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3.
Sleeping Seraph

She's just a perfect angel
beneath the scarlet comforter,
her spirit distantly drifting
astral parterres in dream districts;
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4.
Paradox

Despair nipped at our hearts,
we the blue children
of the growing season, long green stalks rising
in savoury fields.
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5.
Living In The Crazed Age Of Celebrity Culture

When I have returned to dust,
recall me, but not the genuine me;
no, leave that shrinking, purple-
prosing violet be. Instead visit
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6.
Cold Air Masses

Your requiem is rising
from a wailing sea.
It blends among inconsolable
gull cries, beyond
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7.
Icarian Delusions Of Grandeur

At Chronos' raised browed
forelock, there won't and can't
be any detachment, no turning
back now, no, none whatsoever
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8.
La Z Boy Philosophy

I


Supposing
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9.
Repressed Gods

Certain repressed gods,
compelled to shed shade
over humanity's visions,
forecast the end of the world
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10.
Resurfacing

White doves and stormy petrels
light upon the living room walls,
in robust compatibility,
teaching odd wedded rituals,
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