A Short Primer Of Stones Poem by Leslie Philibert

A Short Primer Of Stones

Rating: 3.0


Granite; dark with quartz
and royal with feldspar
polished with stars and ghosts
its brother marble,
cool with drops of fountain water,
proud with veiled eyes;
Chalk; full of dead white fish
and rings of old life.

Slate for a roof under Northern rain.

Jade for a buried queen
boned and stripped
free of face and arms.

A cycle of rock, mudstone cracked,
impacted like coal or bastard gravel;
an old crag broken.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Chris G. Vaillancourt 09 May 2014

interesting piece of writing. nice work

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Roseann Shawiak 09 October 2013

Agree with King Big Head, a rewrite may be in order. I get the stones part, but you lose me from there.

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