Best Breathing Room Poems

No room to breathe 

Or catch one's breath

Words and phrases 

Once written on pages

Just as easily lost

A world without borders

No judge, no jury

Freedom with wings

To...

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Breathing Room

       I feel the strong embracing lift
       buoyant and warm around me
...

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With the onset of years
erstwhile crazy ideas
abandoned with caution and dread
now crowd my mind
no peace I will find
till my conscience lies neatly in shreds

Conscience, out...

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There's a breathing room looming 
Around me, vacantly alive but viscous;
Feeling the bitter dead breath
While grating still, fully motionless
Like a thick,pungent mound of darkness;
As the...

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Sometimes, it’s the hard times that blind me from the possible positive outcomes the future beholds…
But damn…sometimes it’s like I get so tired of always...

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I admit tubby distracted by a modeling
female physique when attempting to write,
an aching agony rips thru this son,
gripping with hard on – tight -
by Dickens...

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Blue Monarch Faerie had been vacationing in the Bahamas
So relaxed and pliable now, quite unlike her double mama’s. 
Just wait ‘til you get back, one...

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Buried in an avalanche you
might see on "Hoarders buried alive"
back and foreground
white sheet with limited pay per view,
nonetheless sky scraping heap

(Uriah not kid) nsync with...

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This Dissembling Man...

Trod thru three
score orbitz with air
tight (hermetically sealed)
lid on his emotions bare
reft of evincing

concern and/or care
ring forever guarded against
incursions upon fragile as chinaware
psyche...

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I’m wild and I’m free, I look down and what do I see…

Ghostly bubbles rising from the bottom
of a once clear mountain pool
now devoid of...

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Life returns to normal,
People head to work;
But below the surface,
Some surprises surely lurk:
  
Lots of detours on the roads,
Rivers scaling banks;
If your route is...

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i seemingly slur
only a sigh
a maiden waiting

every rounded
syllable
diagrammed

breathing room
where worms roam
and angels fly

i pinch my own
cheeks, healthy
no blood rises

cherry juice
fills my eyes
when truth shouts

proverbial monkey
eyes,...

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Dexter John, baby calf was tuckered, he had been playing all day.
He laid down in the Kansas grass, brown enough to be harsh hay.
His fifteen-year-old...

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Midst anger fester the fox's concerns
    infecting every breathing room
  with pique and plaint in brilliance painted
    ensconced...

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I am not asking for much during my moment
Just a little breathing room, let me vent
There are corrupt politicians, crooked cops, greasy palms
Honesty and truth...

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