Poems for Peculiar Children

By SarahQuinnMcGrath

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This is a second anthology of my more whimsical and curious poems. They aren't so much for children, though a... More

This Lily Bride
Narrow Passages
The Dare
Red
Velvet Sleep
A Shiny Thing
Boil
Heart, Collapse
Drain
A Cage, Five Ways
The Belfry of the Gods
A Story
Joshua
This Copper Moon
Secret Admirers
Labyrinth
Marionette
The Din
Curtain Call
In Hand I Take Another's
Sinon
Red King
The Flower of Dew
Base
The Author
To Erebos
The Naming of Things
Eleven Strangers
Comes the Warning
Secrets
The Floriographer
The Bee
Diamond
Nocturne
Still Life
The End
Bear Trap
Aberration
Origami
Traffic Jam
Words
Cameo
Continuum
I Wept to Wake
The Muse
Impasse
Madrigal
Dear Intimate of Mine
Atreyu
Two Inches
Run
Paradise
What the Ruse?
Stick Man
St. Nectan
A Year
Tableau Vivant
Anna
Conquest
By Comparison
Summer Requiem
Small Egg
Milk and Cream
The Questing Beast (or Glatisant)
A Dying Breed
Thoughtlessness
Starry Eyes
Golden Calf
Mushroom
Satisfaction
Snowbright
St. Kevin
Constellations
The Finishing Places
Piano Key Man
Demagogue
Fungi Fantastique, Pt. 2
Diversions Weren't for Such Hearts Made
Where the Cherry Tree Grows
Secret Bloom
Before the Rain
So Long
Archangel
Minute Men
Aengus and Caer
Gabriel
The Pretty Ones
Egret
An Eye, a Rewind, Next a Word
Monarch
Perfect Self
The Seed
Hush
Life Perplexed
A Dream Played Twin
Strange Geometry
Come Undone
Greek Chorus
Moth

Golden

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By SarahQuinnMcGrath

Golden, he—not knowing is his cruelty,
For garden paths grow thistles ever thick.
And so, you see, his glorious effigy
Must give rise to inquiry romantic.
Certainly, he may forever lonesome be;
Yes, one can hopeless hope for jealous antics.
By decree, one's whims engage in prophecy—Fabricate lush fancies for the frantic.

Complicit in simplicity, his web elicits empathy,
Solicits the illicit with its sorcery.

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