Almost Poems

A life almost undone

I woke too soon, a life almost undone
A sudden call came, before the light of day
But all are safe, the reaper had not won

Her life was spared, before the morning sun
She was okay, I heard her softly say
I woke too soon, to a life almost undone

No tragic end, no race was lost or run
Three lives

you were almost my savior

i'm at the bottom of the ocean
forty feet down
stones tied to my feet
trapped
i'm drowning
air in my lungs
can't breathe
suffocating
vision going black
i feel you
your hands grab me
pulling my up
saving me
thirty feet down
there's hope
a sliver of it
i'm almost gone but
maybe we'll make it in time
twenty feet down
you're still holding on tightly
i trust you now
you'll bring me to the

Almost made Avalon

I preached to my flock, "you voted them in
"The knaves and fools who did freedom in.
"I know a new place to settle upon
The hills and the vales of Avalon."

"We'll take a stout fleet, built for you all
We'll leave our mistakes; we'll stand again tall
It's a magical place, where wishes come true
There's no other choice, no

almost

an almost autumn
scene unfolds outside window....
purple flowers bloom
yellow butterflies flit fast
mexican petunias wave   

occasionally birds
come into view and hummers....
brown rabbit nibbles plants
a break in the fence somewhere
small animals enter there

summer swiftly flies
soon cooler nights, drier air....
hummers migrate south
mexican petunias die
birds at feeders seen outside  

Almost the Real Thing

That member when in use to procreate
is the very same men use to urinate.
Yet when released in an emergency
the pleasure’s pretty close to ecstasy!

I Let **** In: The Secret That Almost Destroyed Me- Part 02

I let lust lead.
So when I speak on this,
I’m not guessing.
I’m not judging.
I know what it does.
It rips your heart.
Messes up your mind.
Twists how you see people
how you see yourself.
It cages you.
Makes you smile in public
but cry in secret.
Makes you feel too dirty for grace.
Too broken for mercy.
Too far for forgiveness.
And the worst part?
It makes

I Let **** In: The Secret That Almost Destroyed Me - Part 01

The day I let *********** in...
I didn’t even know what I was letting in.
I was just a curious boy 11, maybe 12
scrolling one evening.
One video.
One image.
One pop-up.
One “harmless” click.
Boom.
That was the beginning of the shadows.
They say curiosity killed the cat —
but they never said it could kill the conscience too.
It started small:
Late nights under blankets,
volume

I'm Almost Glad

I passed you on my path by chance,
by the bench where we once sat
with hands and hearts entwined.

You looked on through me
as if I were the fading apparition
you left when you said goodbye.

Your eyes saw past the flame of hurt,
that dying love ember left behind
as though you felt things that I did not.

Your head and

Almost Touching

I can’t believe you’re not in the world anymore.
It’s like someone turned off all the lights
And the world went home.
The party, prematurely cut off—
Your face contours etched into my biology.

I feel you in every empty space,
Every pregnant pause.
You are the words I’ve forgotten,
The car keys I lost.
You are the second before I wake up,
My fevered

A Song That Almost Was Not

In California, in the year nineteen thirty-nine,
at Culver City, a movie studio was fine.
Metro Goldwyn Mayer was the largest company.
They produced the best motion pictures people could see.
Early in the year, they would make a large announcement.
A musical would be their next big accomplishment.
Based after L. Frank Baum’s turn-of-the-century tale,
president Louis B. Mayer hoped it

We Were Almost Always

There was a time
your name felt like a beginning—
a gentle unfolding of everything soft
in a world that had grown too loud.

You weren’t just someone I loved.
You were a season.
A chapter where the pages turned slower
just to make it last.

We were never chaos,
never fire.
We were rain on windows,
late-night playlists,
hands brushing in silence.
Almosts wrapped in always.
Goodbyes hidden

I almost forgot how you felt

I saw you before you saw me.
Still walk the same.
Still carry the world
like it owes you something.

And just like that—
a flood of years
came rushing through a single glance.

We hugged.
God, that hug.
Longer than polite,
shorter than what I needed.

We sat,
coffee between us
like a buffer,
but your eyes still knew too much.

You made me laugh.
Too easily.
Like my body remembered
what

52 days but almost 8 months

there's a movie i used to watch over and over as a kid 
it's why i love old glass and putting flowers in coke bottles 
there's a tooth on my bottom row that sticks out 
you told me it was cute
that's why i stopped asking my dad for braces
i have a friend who used to

Almost

   pulchritudinous

   rhymes with ‘She makes food for us’

      ~ well, almost… 

A Life of Almosts

She's lived a lot of "almosts"

She almost drowned under the pulsing weight 
of the river's temperamental waters when she was 12

Later on, she felt time itself suspend as she spent 
her last few seconds wondering if death would
take her quickly, while her car spiraled down the I-50, 
barreling off the ice-ridden road at a deadly

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