Best Excerpt Poems

Time is a consumer of
lives and souls and thoughts and love
The world that once turned yesterday
has forever gone away

Was it not good, what used to be?
Was it not sweet for you and me?
Remnants of the golden past
bring tears for times that couldn't last

Photographs are sweet...

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Excerpts from the compilation: “Prayer” 7
Inner Strength, Resilience.

I wish that each of us rediscovers their Inner Strength 
And we understand that is a wild, 
serene and pure treasure 
That is simply forgotten - not lost.
Especially in the moments 
when we need to say “no” or...

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my shoulders are broad
my back is strong

maybe I was born to carry all of this
maybe I was never meant to put it down
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“Place this cloak around you and blink six times
You will then hear three chimes
When your body begins to shudder
You’ll be invisible to your own mother!”...

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Now transition, a transit repositionment, a white car super-imposed with consumerist propaganda. Long rectangular prism solid moving, propelled by inflatable tubes circular, and the foul engine. A refridgerator that keeps the hole in the ozen fresh and crispy. 
So I'm in this thing... and the...

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Slipping into darkness, there is no personal fierceness against the logic of the heart, the inevitable force of the dying light, nor the finish of the soul surrender.
At last, the heart is over spilling with delightful rapture shouting out at the mountains of gloom....My time...

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//And there I was, standing in the middle of a room while clouds of fear flew circles around my body, I couldn’t see straight. I didn’t want to open my eyes because I could feel the looks, I could sense their bodies, flocking around me,...

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With that invisibilty of age
I can fly my life like a kite !
Uninvited and unseen,
albescent, grey, you know what I mean,
( not the first flush of youth or strong,
the young forget that we were young, )
hold on to that, the string of that
to grip the...

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an exerpt from a love story I am too lazy to write

She found him outside her small flat
he was in the bloom of the old lamplight.
she noticed the grey flecks in his beautiful eyes.
Hi! 
he whispered softly like honey falling from a spoon.
She flashed her...

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I knew that while happiness is warm and filling and makes me feel whole for once in my life, it is ultimately fleeting and fragile, a paper thin glass box. I remember thinking about how much I deserved you, how much you deserved me, how...

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THE INNER VOICE OF MARK BIRROS  II



From world war two in the Atlantic
I hear the drowning cries of men,
climbing out as in spirit from waters
that lap the steps of the harbour wall ;
time erodes as the sea -
washing up these thoughts that linger
here and...

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“Into busy cities with the flow of cars
 Is where we come back to – simply no choice! –
 And we’re coming down from the heights we reached,
 Leaving our hearts in the mountains.”
    ~ Vladimir Vysotsky, “Goodbye Mountains”

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How ephemeral is life
How...

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Time is but a shadow twisting in the sun;
 Forlorn and forgotten. 
Cold and dry are her lips so that 
no breath could pass through without shattering the shell.
Oh where has it gone and to whom?
What man so greedy, so rich, so..unfortunate could buy such...

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Destruction of Me

And my father died, and I had a surgery go terribly wrong,
And I was trying to care for my mom, and Covid became a thing
And the tears gushed and flowed and splashed and rolled down my face,
And I realized that holding back tears...

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An Excerpt from Nature's diary

The Rain took a break 
Sunshine embraced the wet woods
Squirrel out of drey

©Anulaxmi Nayak, December 2019...

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