Personal Effects

Personal Effects

Personal Effects

Poetry & Lyrics

Steve Olweean

Personal Effects

a scrap of lace;
…unfolded grace;
a pocket watch
with rusted hinges;
that measure love and loss
in days and inches.

Patchwork

I heard you could calculate the night's temperature by the chirps of a cricket...

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Unlatched

You’re like a warm rush past my ear, ..just out of sight; faint whispers and.....

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Archaeology

We live on the crust of the earth that is constantly heaving and flowing and.....

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Reality hangs

Reality hangs on the limbs of bare trees; truth-tellers once covered in leaves, slowly....

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Aftermath

When you’re in pieces on the ground it doesn’t matter that the missile was blue,.....

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This Moment

Turn every timepiece back to 5 minutes before. Fix every star in place and close.....

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Personal Effects

a scrap of lace; …unfolded grace; a pocket watch with rusted hinges; that measure love....

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Idolatry

We machine our love with wires and grace, precision passion without any face. It sweetens....

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Natural Forces

Light strips away the secrets of night like some rival dimensional twin. And even as.....

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Cherish

I see you; not aware I’m watching; not taking your gaze away; from the sunbathing....

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Down here

Down here ….in the row, next to the line. I try to catch your eye......

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Giving In

You misunderstand my plight, as you shelter me from sin. I’m not one for resisting......

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I lost myself

I lost myself in the accompanying light of your smile. Finally, and on time; like.....

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Haiku Youku

The space between frost bitten limbs, and the first glimpse of green.

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Haiku-esk

As your breath persuades the air, wind and calm are one.

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