Best Deflating Poems

Don't rush Spring
because of everything it brings
Each day in a season is valuable to explore
To live, to love, to experience more
Find the light shining in...

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“Nobody likes a clown at midnight.”       Stephen King


CLOWN AT THE ABYSS


Darkroom abscessed 
with neon blush and black-blood —
sunken eyes...

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the little man who sold balloons
was blown away by gales
he flew across the sea that night
and ended up in wales
he soared above a field of...

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permeates

ah yes my sweet,
the bloody heat, 
permeates and thrills,
transfixed beguiled,
entranced awhile,
a steamy tale it builds,
explosive in its ending style,
deflating the hard inner child,
so subtle sweet,...

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Here We Shall Remain
by Tawfiq Zayyad
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Like twenty impossibilities
in Lydda, Ramla and Galilee ...
here we shall remain.

Like brick walls braced against...

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For Maxine


Sister, was there forgiveness for she who birthed you?
For us, your siblings and sometime charges?
For all who would not help, but hastened your demise?

The...

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Elder Darwin swims in ethology.
He rolls in his deep grave ecology.
He itches and scratches his dissonance
that survival of most fitted and dense
implies manifest destiny for...

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I’m getting older - this fact I cannot deny
Not quite ready for the scrap heap or to give up life and die
My body isn’t quite...

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Of the distance, 
beauty appeared at peace, calmly resting. 
Proximity grew closer to this human figurine; 
lengthy legs painted in ocean blue jeans.
The thesis statement...

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Spring pushes ground
       to cherished green patches
       in sun (splattered)
that breaks the grayness
...

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I float effortlessly alongside you
Tied by a silken string
To an outstretched hand

Once buoyant, light and full of hope
My exterior begins to shrink
Around my deflating soul

My...

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Now the razamataz is over
Looks like Trump is next in line.
If he does what he is proclaiming
Everything will be just fine

If like his name*
He is...

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I feel solidified
Captured in blue-green horizon
They are eternal and faceless
My lungs; brown paper bags deflating
My milk structures are curdling
There are tiny mouths taking microscopic airs
Aerated...

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Stop drinking alcohol,
this only reassures us,
like social media,
like your favourite TV shows,
and drugs,
that our personal problems are all okay,
when intoxication is an escape route,
from our...

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To what do I owe this sweetest pleasure
Of optimism's grand procession 
When days are weighed then carefully measured
And trials find their hope in recession 

True,...

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