Best Breathlessness Poems

HUNGARIAN RHAPSODY

Her hand’s swan-like dance,
ivory shadow puppets
romance. Hungarian rhapsody.

The musician sans existence
as emotive fingers move
imaginary marionettes
with splendiferous precision.

Drama drops onto piano keys
occasionally taking a gentle...

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 I AM DEAD BECAUSE I FEEL SO!
I lay wrinkled and knotted, trying to iron my crumpled self...
Vibrating with those ugly, gruesome resonances, I relive...

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In the speechlessness 
of your breathlessness,
I breathe vigorously
to arouse your former arising,
too afraid to touch 
a corpse in the making. 
Could another's spare years 
restore...

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I held my breath as long as I could
Until my lungs began to burn
I forgot my Tibetan embodiments
And gave breathing again, a turn

O, I held...

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There was a time when I dreamed huge dreams
Felt the presence of a mysterious urgency
To reach beyond the past and into the present
Embrace each moment...

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Tranquil thoughts
breathing
of slow kissed sights
comforted 
in expelling this light
languorous trembled gaze

A mask promising nothing
yet yearning to taste 
now pushed aside

Risking this pull 
stakes everything

Claims made...

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Heart silently shivers
when the roaring clouds burst in electrical light
mind quivers

Trembling in tears
breathlessness, as stars wane from sight
kohl fears

Inked sky
faded twilight
sigh

Heart silently shivers
breathlessness, as stars...

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Tree boughs scope me by window glass,
As the long night without stars pass
The moon out like dead rock— the last
Time dark mornings will be so...

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When we met, I surely knew the yearning
Breathlessness erasing my weariness
Feelings, dreams, soothing every discerning
You silence doubts, discourage dreariness
Deep inside, I long for your spirit’s...

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Ha Ha Ha - Cartoon- funny

Giggle - Valley Girl- Preppy

LOL - Texting- Hilarious

Snicker- Your worst enemy- Flippant

Snort- Pig- Belly laugh

Chuckle- Manley Man- Sportive

Howl- To much...

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quick figurative brush stroke drawn out character sketch
(serendipitous verisimilitude)

i stand in awe
(with mouth agape) at elegiac, fantastic,
   and graphic idyllic Kinkade magic
 ...

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Bills to Pay                      ...

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This is me raping the red of an apple,
the breathy sweetness of the flesh underneath,
a slab of clean, radiant cold filling my mouth. 
I can...

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Searing love does not fade 
It simply lies in wait in hollow partitions 
Prone to sudden gusts  
of breathlessness 
These come in waves 
Some...

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Unquotabe quotes: Dancers - XXIII

Dance like Cassius Clay, Sting like Muhammad Ali.
The dancing Dervish’s ethereal trip makes the Sufi’s Qawwali breathlessness sound like the radio-astral...

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