The crowd opens / rises like a row of poppies, / and subsides, / scattering peanut shells like petals.

George Bowering
Elegy 5
Kerrisdale Elegies

#poetry #elegy #conceit #baseball

The white ball acts upon them as a stone in a pool.
They run, they bend, they leap, they fall
to the patchy green carpet,
walled away from the factory city.

George Bowering
Elegy 5
Kerrisdale Elegies

#poetry #baseball #conceit

rite, toothbrush & coffee cup
a wand, a tarnished chalice

Frances Boyle
"Antique Lace"
This White Nest

#poetry #conceit

A co-worker's fake nails are so long, she couldn't pick up a credit card she dropped.

I don't understand self created disability for appearances. .......

#pride #appearance #beauty #conceit