Best Cuts To The Quick Poems

Midst the twilight of wakefulness and sleep
Our minds meander to places shallow and deep.

They visit domains that while awake we won't go
Depicting ourselves when old, feeble, and slow.

But in only a dozen deepening breaths more
We grow wings and over mountain peaks soar.

Our free-roaming minds are...

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Walking Stick

Drifting thoughts roll 
Through my mind
Full of rhythmic tones
Pulsing in eternal rhyme 

Arriving in scattered words
A trove of jewels glimmering
Floating before me as rare birds 
 Basking, I begin shimmering

Picking out each golden word
Carefully placing them on paper
Choice nibbles of songs unheard 
Safe from...

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Hearts be broken
Hearts be quick
Hearts heal faster
When it cuts to the quick

The memories so broken
Stand in unrepair
Why love again
Why would you dare

Is there still hope
Is there still passion
Or this time your love
Will you ration

Do you follow your heart
Or has it learned
The pain and agony of...

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Sight, sound, feelings converge, to point sublime,
Until what once was so, is barely there.
As last gasp grasp exhales slip-away time,
Ear, eye strain to catch last glimmer of care.

Fleeting touch lost, dulls to memory bliss,
As soft caress on fingertip so light.
Begs the mind's grip to grasp...

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When debate gets personal and inflamed,
You cry: 'Why can't you talk like an adult?'
'Why can't you engage in adult conversation,
 without the claptrap, rants and rage with hurls of abuse and name calling?'

But, I wonder if this is really wise.
For out of the mouths of...

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