Best Exhale Poems

What I knew before birth
  I will know after death

This slight pause called life
  —where the soul takes a breath

(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2018)...

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Inhale
My friend has prepared me
For the final moments
She sits beside me calm
A woman not scared
Or so she says…
But I see the fear 
In her eyes
For she is not prepared
For this eventuality
I pass the pipe
Medicinal purposes I tell her
It’s what keeps me hanging on.
She takes a...

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Etchings upon my heart, so profound in time
These hues, colored so bright, bringing out an array of light
This love, in healing softened my existence and allowed me to trust 
Yet sad, as we parted for the differences were evident and pained;
pained by the physical was...

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At times we’re forced to grin and bare it, 
                           but then again if the shoe fits, wear it—Quote...

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realization hit me
it was never about him
the controls were in my hand
reverie was mine   

I had to take it
try and alter the ending 
starting with my heart
my thoughts became mine again 
I could finally exhale 

(Dodoitsu & Tanka)

Inspired by Russell’s Sivey’s contest:
“A Mesh...

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A deep breath in, a slow release,
Calming your mind, heart rate decreased.
Once tightened muscles, begin to let go,
Reminding yourself to take it slow.
Focusing on, your happy place,
Stress is gone, without a trace.
And as you dive into the real.
So differently you now feel....

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If i could exhale, really exhale,
To expire the rubble of the ages, 
1000 years of dread off my belly,
and my fingertips once so dainty
then could grasp stars and not burn,
 I dig my face into the dirt and find eternity.

i gazed into the jackals eyes...

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Lotus life birth Breath
Pond shakes earthquake storm movement
Locus destruction death exhale...

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WAITING TO EXHALE

Now that I have successfully alienated everyone else,
the time has come to liberate myself, having played  
this out in my mind…so many times I guess I have
finally acted on it—as you try to comprehend.
This “fault”—this “defect” in my head--an
incessant obsession and desire...

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Cleansing breath
Clearing mind
Start out fresh
Leave all behind

Inhale till I'm full
Exhale to be empty
Close eyes to be clear
Get rid of all memory

Inhale, exhale, eyes closed
I wait to feel relief
But my chest feels worse
And sights begin to haunt me

Congested, I can't breathe
Like I haven't ever exhaled
Or my...

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Panic attack
Neurons are whack
Strive for balance

Infests my whole day
Each way I try to convey 
Messages, communicate

My how neural pathways can stray
Left with a bottlenecked airway
I seek but body-chemical harmony
Thoughts, actions with symmetry

Gather grey matter
Take the unrest
Heave it over the railing
Crazy’s gone stale
And then I exhale



								Sunshine...

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Softly dressed in a black top to hinge 
Brown chinos skirt and beige watch 
Hair resplendent in curly full fringe 
With cute accessories to match 

Her voice rings out in a velvety tone 
“Obim oh, am gonna love you” 
Heart filled with sweetness so prone...

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a breeze exhales its aim
time then inhales our frame


10~10~2014
Maurice Yvonne
Sponsor: nette onclaud
Contest Name: IN ITS ESSENCE...

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Through anguish, oppression, suffering and pain,
Frustration, destrucion and all of the shame.
I have lost everything that I I have received;
I must wait on the Lord and continue to believe.

Trying to ruin my reputation and destroy my name;
Yet on them I don't place the blame.
Through all...

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I can EXHALE

Not every day
Not every moment
BUT… 

I can EXHALE

The Corona virus still runs
RAMPANT
But the ORANGE plague
Has been removed
Has been dulled
Has been silenced

SILENCED (at least for now)...

By a baby blue canary
A seemingly docile creature 
With a ROBUST flock

An inhale of realism reminds us…

There is [still]...

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