Best Lapse Poems

TO A POETIC TIME LAPSE

As the sharp rays
of sunlight slowly sliced
through the tarrying tinted clouds,
I wiped away the web
of darkness of night;
broke off a piece of time
and used it to scrape away
the corrosion of agony
from the heart of my mind...
and resuscitated my eroded faith. 

Today...

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It's time to celebrate a New Year
with an old tradition and much cheer,
so while the ball is dropping
the champagne will be popping...
Here's to headaches and actions unclear!...

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A chance encounter on a 
crowded street 
An awkward hurried hug
Can't seem to catch a carefree 
beat
With someone that you once 
so loved

What was it that so connected 
us when
We suffered each others pain
Were we really that much 
different then
It was great to see you again....

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Every now and then,
A memory will surface,
Emerging from within,
Secretive in purpose.

Revealing bits of life,
I didn’t know exist,
Ashamed of  what I’ve done,
Things I should resist.

They happened in a state,
That surely wasn’t me,
Inhibitions  undiscovered,
Exploration; casually.

Liquor of deception,
Relaxing from inside,
Conspiracy of cells,
Contempt of what they hide.

So...

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Lapse

When efficiency and effort lapse
Law and Peace fatally collapse!


JM

20th January 2014...

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Losses of days make worry haze
Time is forgettable in mysterious plays.
Deadlines I fear as consequence
Emerging light one's only essence.
Goals make believers solidly blind
To undying fates in the mind.
Wounds converge on the palm
Waves silence in the calm.
Nature holds life's rhythm and blues
Ending wars assimilate forgotten clues....

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...a true story


Her house was just a shell, a burnt-out ruin...

standing apart, the other houses still intact 
with painted jalousies and window curtains. 
She must have fallen asleep, the cigarette 
still dangling from her arthritic fingers;
I never saw her without one. 

She told me of...

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Oh, Sir, surely you must be mistaken
For I have every precaution taken
To never allow a ticket to go into arrears
Hearing of these arouses my deepest fears
Thinking I must have a lapse in my brain
No, no!  It cannot be this sorry refrain
I have never felt...

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            Drops of rain
     a pulse of pain
    Down from head to face
    stiffening my veins



  i see lights in the streets
 shinning...

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Nature's neon lights
Colors a delight
Glory for man's eyes
Dancing lights 
In deep cold of night

Aurora Borealis
Like living in king's palace
Time lapse scenes
Set to classical music 
Cure for a body algesic

For a few minutes 
Release from all conscience
Absorbed in the moment
Nothing like Aurora Borealis
God's invention_ not neon...

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Places that once had names
changed by wind and rain
and sun and shifting sands
once mapped and framed 
bad lands claim
dry bones. 

Desert meets sky
   and rivers run dry
and road is lost
    to all who try
to find their way
   ...

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Weeks later


Expectations diminish



12/09/11
5:18pm...

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MEMORY LAPSE

they peer at me
in short panted
breaths
against cuts and 
breezes
childhood days
and drifts like
wood in dark
mahogany
past pastels
through every
heart torched that
touched my soul

now life gapes
huge holes
cracked mirrors
with
fissured tears
faces that visit
and giggle
clueless
dim-witted
brainless
obtuse

a memory lapse
unaware 
of what was
left behind 


© Kim van Breda—16 October 2015...

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...a true story


Her house was just a shell, a burnt-out ruin...

standing apart, the other houses still intact 
with painted jalousies and window curtains. 
She must have fallen asleep, the cigarette 
still dangling from her arthritic fingers;
I never saw her without one. 

She told me of...

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For Timothy Lee

You are the one and only perfect male for this girly female.
Your body, so strong, manly and taut, is meant for my body soft.
Your hands eager, sensual assails make my senses lapse and fail.
Your manly, intimate onslaughts erase my every thought.

When your intent...

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