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Instants of Presence
what of me?
this whirlwind smeared across time
falling and churning
instants strung together 
futures approaching 
never appearing
before disintegrating into pasts
and finally dying --
the whirlwind spent.

and what of...

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© Sam Toil  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instants, death, life, world,
Form: Free verse



A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I
Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.              ...

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Categories: instants, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Making Tea
It's styles of a nameless brand pristine day
an exclusive star-sheathed shadow after 
overwhelming luminous glare fainted
a somewhat true-to-life footpath in
a back of structured quaintness

Encountering myself...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instants, allusion, analogy, blessing, celebration,
Form: Concrete
Premium Member Mindfulness
regrouping
i take a deep breath
like nothing else matters
owning the moment

basking in its magnificence
relishing in the focus
the intensity of being present
the pulsating rhythm of consciousness
and synchronized...

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Categories: instants, appreciation, inspirational, meaningful, peace,
Form: Free verse
Mythology and Image
By every image spoken, 
her mind and heart were broken; 
the given and the taken 
sought their grave for things forsaken. 

Belief and dream dissolving...

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© Tony Bush  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instants, life, lost love, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Falling All Apart
Bits of every consciousness does live on
Transported through cosmic thought energy
When the whole of self is nearly now gone
Deep down inside where nobody shall see

Some...

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© Greg Gaul  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instants, death, earth, life, memory,
Form: Sonnet
An Acute Ache
"Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house;
        can you hear the whispering? " 
  ...

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Categories: instants, house, life, old, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Precious Moments

When the opaque nights were starless, 
and the depressing days desolately cloudy,
the journey through the tortuous valley of life 
wasn’t easy as it was meant...

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Categories: instants, analogy, god, life,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member It's In the Details
it’s in every little thing we did
the micro details throughout the day
the ones no one would understand

these are
the moments
i miss most

i remember my life as
mini...

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Categories: instants, death, grief, life, lonely,
Form: Free verse
To the Kids On the Back of the Bus
To The Kids In The Back Of The Bus

To the kids in the back of the bus:
(With the warmest regards)
Stop screaming
Why do you feel the...

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© Kate Cox  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instants, culture, high school, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Tap Tap
TAP TAP (A Writer's Contemplation)


Tap, tap. I promptly turned to view.
and felt somehow it could be you.
Where have you been, I tersely cried?
... 'Here' just...

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Categories: instants, creation, imagination, leaving,
Form: Blank verse
Bassnectar Red Rocks '13
the    m  u  s  i  c    took   CONTROL
our heartbeats replaced by  ...

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Categories: instants, adventure, beautiful, community, happiness,
Form: Free verse
The Free Bird
I am bird thinking about nothing
Seeing this freedom while I’m well flying
Can’t stop to flap my wings and feel this breeze
Seizing this moment like I’m...

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Categories: instants, freedom,
Form: Personification
Time Won'T Tell
There once was an Instant named Now
who wanted to stop Time.
He was tired of having Seconds, Minutes, and Hours pass him by.

In a world of...

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© Erik Berns  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instants, adventure, allegory, education, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shoulds and Shoulders
I had a long argument today...
Whilst sitting by the 
surcharging charging airport port,
shouldertoshoulder with this pastor.

Delayed flight and low juice
kept us there, squared off;
shoulder to...

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Categories: instants, journey,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs