Best At The Last Minute Poems

Absorbed in Guernica’s promise Lucifer glanced at Montmatre

Settled his mind on virgins in heaven as Mona Lisa smiled on

One Last Supper tied to a suicide belt he set out to light the church

Of Our Lady and mounted Chagall’s Blue Horse towards The Scream

It was a...

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Last Minute Halloween Costume
Toilet paper wraps;
Costs less to dress as mummy,
Mom thinks it’s funny!...

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 dodoitsu series (rhymed) 

Winter is taking the reins
speeding past days of autumn -
Jack Frost smears the windowpanes
forefingers and thumb.

You who have no house to own,
too proud to seek charity,
you choose your path all alone
that’s a guarantee.

Your attic room, where risks run
rowdy as the eastern...

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If I could tell you just one last thing 
  I would tell you Dad, I wish I had more time with you 
  you taught me how to stand tall , do things the right way 
  If I could tell...

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Breezing through hectic
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Getting to the store quick on the double,
their faces look anxious and troubled,
minutes to spare,
pulling out their hair,
caffeine the hustle in their bustle.








12-22-16...

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First kiss from my mother

A three year old gets hug from her father

Amazing to learn the first letter 

Playing with my brother looks great

Good looking in a graduation cap

A dimple on my cheeks on the sight of my prince

Running through every incident of my life

opened...

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Messed up room and untouched books ariled by dust,
Branded cards specially bought
To bring out yips,
Last year’s Questions
Cut-short by hazards,
Next day’s paper
To prove the intellectuality in us.

Gabfest few minutes and
Gambling with the Joker for few hours,
A priori minds
And the counterattack,
A checkmate came after
When we realized
Only a...

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The last minute wonder.
The nick of time saviour. 

At Hells door I lay.

A willing candidate for destruction. 
For I had exhausted my wealth on the acquisition of wild pleasures. 

There His grace found me.

Those amazing hands that dragged me back to life.
That love that fed...

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Last Minute

The old lady went to the thrift store. 
She found the row of coats, 
and looked for just the right tags. 
The color of the day. 
She bought everyone that she could afford. 
There were nine in all. 
Then she pushed her cart…
toward hats...

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The last minute
The one we wait for our entire lives
That appointment with destiny
We all deny exists
But it's always there 
Gnawing at the back of your brain
Each passing moment 
You are a little closer to the end
Or is it just the end of the beginning?
And when...

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I wrote this one just to let you know,
but if I'm late,
I will only wish it's not too late!

Knowing this day as one whose approach brings you joy,
and a remembrance of the years to years,
coupled with a hope of the many more years to come!

I...

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To touch space 
and shiver against 
those fabric-brushed
black fields of
dismembered poppies.
To see eyes sparkle
an epitaph of love,
in shallow-paddled
darkness,
hoping serenity
stays afloat,
just one
more
minute.


Breathless 
they touch…
barely,
intensity
blowing sense
into void,
as ends one 
minute’s calling`


and poppies run
black inked petals
to a brooding,silent heaven.


~~~


3rd in Barbara Gorelick's contest "Heaven's Sake"...

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Cars are bustlin’ and people are hustlin’,
The avenues are backed up with shoppers
Last minute hunters are getting frantic,
Christmas Eve comes on Friday of this week
One must come prepared for all the panic,
As Impulse buying is on the increase
With buyers getting more and more frantic,
The hubbub...

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I'm just digging myself deeper
Can't stop
Won't stop
Don't stop
Till I get to where you are
Tendrils of smoke
Are they turning into
Strands of red ribbons
Or is that just an illusion
In my head
Want to be his tequila sunrise
Not the first
But want to be the last
The rays of sunlight
Burning in...

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