Ink As Thick: A Palindrome

Lies as thick and black as ink

With painted over rhetoric

That I saw

When broken ceilings of glass

To blue sky of truth

Subsided

Truth of sky blue

To glass of ceilings broken

When saw I that

Rhetoric over painted

With ink as black and thick as lies.

 
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April Palmer

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    The Yellow Flower


    Mamma, I saw a flower,
    O sitting on our sink,
    Reflected against the marble,
    Just begging for a drink.

    And, Mamma, it was so pretty,
    O sitting on our sink,
    Bathing in its yellow bloom,
    As though I was the sun!

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    My company

    Myself and me keep company
    Only twice a week
    With the shadows of Loneliness
    Between the pages of my books.

    And once a week, I drink tea
    With the pretty chrysanthemums of Sorrow
    Who takes her tea bitter

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    The Village Unloved

    One day I was led to gate gleaming,
    And a robed man met me there,
    And he saw my eyes - O but he did not See!
    He wore pale round goggles that would not See.

    I did not want to enter that lovely gate,

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