Best Breather Poems


Premium Member The Perfect Painting
...I could not refrain from asking what it was that made her sigh
When each picture that she started she took down. I wondered why.
The young lady was forthcoming; said her thoughts were fresh and bri......

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Categories: breather, art, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Part One, From That Dark, Dark Abyss, the Long Black Curtain Rises
...From That Dark, Dark Abyss, The Long Black Curtain Rises
 Third poet in my poet dedication series

Part One:
 
Curtain rises and we see as Raven's prisoner, old Master Poe
chained to his cell, ......

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Categories: breather, appreciation, art, dark, literature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member My Shadow Muse
...The fast beat of Lindsey Stirling’s track - ‘Shadows’ - aptly describes what all poets would be familiar with. 
Sit back and prepare yourself for a fast trip down poetry lane to the beat of L......

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Categories: breather, creation, humorous, me, muse,
Form: Rhyme

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Premium Member Hashtagmetoo- Yes, Me Too
...hashtagmetoo-  yes me too
I see it    in nightmares-
paralyzed with fear   did I do something
wrong?    will anyone believe me?
I knew something   was very wrong     
inside me    cause
       ......

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Categories: breather, abuse, child,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Great British Pancake Day Toss Off - Warning Contains Innuendo
...Today it’s Pancake Day and there’s to be a pancake race
Entrants are on the starting line with a smile upon their face

Old Ted ‘s ready with his frying pan, he is a fat old josser
bu......

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Categories: breather, food, humorous, race,
Form: Couplet
As the Crow Flies
...As The Crow Flies

Staring past the curtain,
At the vigilant crow upon the mast,
The creature unaware of a presence,
In a moment forever lost.

Unflappable in its endeavour,
A breather from i......

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Categories: breather, bird, dark, imagery,
Form: Free verse


Premium Member Thinking about Nevermind!
...
Thinking about Nevermind!

Skinny dipping soaked in bleach, albino by design 
Eyes burning, -Something in the way- future gives a sign
No pacifier needed, when remuneration’s on the line 
Keep......

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Categories: breather, age, music, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member In the Beginning
...How did it all start
  Was there really a 'Big Bang'
Or is that just code for
  ex nihilo* we sprang

What if there's really a Creator
  Who fashioned the world 
     then Adam and Eve

If H......

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Categories: breather, birth, confusion, world,
Form: Rhyme
For Grandmomma Pt 2
...Con't from Pt 1

At two years old your motherly instincts took me away./ What could my "mother" say,/ she 
was married to a man who had a violent hand./ I was too young to understand./ But being 
......

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Categories: breather, death, loss, love, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Atmospheric Pressure
...Welcome to this club called "Earth"

Your wait will no doubt fill its worth

If you're a breather, have no fear

Your going to like the atmosphere

Mind not the pain behind your eyes

I......

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Categories: breather, fun, metaphor, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Re-Construction
...I've been through so much destruction
perhaps all I need is some re-construction
a moment to think and re-build what had fallen apart
to slow down and take a much needed breather
for a moment I c......

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Categories: breather, life, love
Form: Free verse
Life In An Aquarium
...My life  in an  aquarium,  so  great, 
But  fearsome,  with unknown  fate. 

Swimming  against  the  fresh  water, 
Flapping  my  gills  for a  breather, 
The  air pump  producing  bubbles, 
Se......

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Categories: breather, fish, fishing,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Bawdy - the Great British Pancake Day Toss Off Lol
...Today is Pancake Day and there’s to be a pancake race
folk are on the starting line with a smile upon their face

Ted is ready with his frying pan, he is a fat old josser
but when it comes to pan......

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Categories: breather, food, humorous,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Element Wind
...She wonders where to go, clueless in her ceramic cage,
with octaves oceanic (there's an oaf in my ocarina)
But Oh! Her delight when her Breather goes soprano
      a whippoorwill trying her      w......

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Categories: breather, adventure, allusion, bereavement, change,
Form: Alliteration
Why If Its Not
...Why, do we call it
Something it’s not
If we’re going to name things
Let’s give it, some thought

If it’s called a chilli
Then why is it so hot
And I can say this
A guinea pig, is not

A pra......

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Categories: breather, humorous, nature,
Form: Narrative
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