A Short Primer Of Stones

stones

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

or impacted like coal, b*****d gravel;

an old crag broken.

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Reviews

[ShelleyA]

A beautiful write, and primer for stones. Vivid imagery. Nice use of personification. Excellent use of contrasts. Very good closing lines. Well penned and a good read. Write on!

[Souladareatease]

wicked and deep as Your fine writes always are Leslie, I don't comment many for I lack the intelligence for proper comment, but this as MANY of Your writes I thoroughly enjoyed!!!

[She With Eyes Like Unsh..]

Gorgeous! A poetic way to describe something often thought of as common.