Best Exhales Poems

Swans - thrump-thrumping
practice take offs and landings

Geese honk
file flight plans

Muskrats build
mud and stick domes

Beaver maintenance crews
make ready

frogs retreat
while the mud is soft

Osprey screech
above naked woods

A doe follows
a scented path

Turtles secure
their mobile homes

A woodpecker
sends Morse code alerts

The ice shell
creeps

Winter exhales
across the pond

John G. Lawless
9/25/2020...

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Sunset exhales in slow motion
Scarlet sky celebrates
Each life breath, a magic potion
Bliss that never abates

Waters reflect gold light
Saying it is all right 
Dawn will transform the night

Amber joy trails
Sunset exhales 

21-February-2021
Quietus ...

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I had to push myself away
To get close enough to touch
Embracing the distance as my friend
So the truth could finally breathe
Creating space for words to form
And their syllables to grow
Reaching beyond by reaching inside
 —as memory exhales

(Villanova Pennsylvania: April, 2018)...

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