Best Chasing Poems

I set up an easel in the shade of my beach umbrella. Wanting to paint by the morning light, I dabbed colors onto the palette...sea foam green, azure, titanium white, and ochre.

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Prometheus had erred and caused great ire
when stealing in stealth secrets of fire.
But Zeus could not forgive this deed.
The chieftain of gods punished his greed.
The lightning zigzagged across the sky,
in anger he let thunderbolts fly.
Instructions he gave to mould from earth
a woman endowed to prove...

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CHASING FOOTPRINTS

Some feet are bigger than others
none bigger than those
left by your brothers -
that you tried to fill.

The foot that Dad
would put “right up ‘ur ****”
and the one Mom said
you must put forward.

The meter and feet
we poetically treat
in attempt to conform
to rhythm and beat.

One foot...

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Rushing through each day, as if I had not a care,
head long toward the sun screaming, "catch me if you dare."
Dripping drabs of liquid sunshine burn my deft eye.

While seeking answers to the question, why, why! Why?
Into the sun I run, my skin so hot...

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Somewhere in the languid night
I'll chase the dark to find you….
Do you search a distant sky
this lonely hour?

There are lights upon the trail,
where I have gathered the stars,
The moon will be a candle-
while darkness frees you

With the friendship of the night
I tread the dark in...

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Chasing the man in the moon


When I was a child

all I wanted was a little warmth,

some love and maybe a smile

Not asking for too much I thought

that it could make my life worthwhile

The house was always cold 

it never became a home

so I learned to...

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I am chasing grasshoppers in the yard
Such a fun filled thing
The grasshopper always one jump ahead
And I, panting hard
Only want a couple to bring
And set before my students' eyes
So they may look and realize
The investment God has made in us
And bridge the vault of fear...

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Come sit with me in the garden swing.
I must be outside, in search of spring.
Will the first robin now return,
and we observe his bob and run,
his comic search for wiggle worm?

Will crocus' cheeky eye pop skyward
through the last bit of snow
or hyacinths explode, in rich...

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As a grown woman I should now be content
to keep your memory well at arm's length.
Yet you live in my head and you pay no rent
so I'll have to call on my inner strength.

I'd hear your footsteps coming so near;
the stairway creaked and gave you...

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Trying to catch a butterfly

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Is like trying to catch a dream

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A dream, with colourful wings

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Watching it fly, flying away

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Like time as a firefly

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Trying to catch a dream 

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A dream, with fluttering wings

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All you know, all you've seen 

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All you love and all your dreams

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Flying away...

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I'm haunted by the words you wrote 
Tell me what you want from me 
Don't tell me what I want to hear 
Tell me how you really feel 

I could be everything for you and more 
I'm telling you now I want more 
I'm telling...

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the silver framed reading glasses rest on the nose of a father 
who’s lost in his novel as he sits up in his now love empty bed
he’s living a different life in the journey he’s taking as he absorbs 
the black and white words that...

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Chasing Rainbows

I've never believed in chasing rainbows.
How would I find the end of one of those?
Where do they begin? Where do they close?
I never have learned where one quickly goes.

It's as elusive as a night without sleeping,
Or wasted tears over lost love's weeping.
A love no...

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Storm clouds finally passed us by
      the sun shines over head;
   rainbow spans across the sky
         with brilliant hues instead.

Hues of every color known
      to...

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May you see with new eyes
Bright stars in clear night skies.
May you feel the warm breeze
That puts your heart at ease.

Hear the sounds of birds sweet.
Wear shoes that dance your feet.
Paint the sky a bright blue.
Just know I think of you.

Put a smile on your...

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