Best Millisecond Poems

I close my eyes 
locked in a millisecond
the moment before the bow 
touches the strings 
where silence has a tremor
and wraps me in darkness 
until...

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a millisecond -
like one grain of sand among
all the universe -
history’s hourglass running
on earth and other planets

now imagine this -
all those gaps as one big...

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january
wind gusts
this morning
were bitter cold
imagine my surprise
when for a millisecond
the sun peeked out
to kiss my cheek



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on December 3, 2019...

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Imagine there is a bank that credits 
Your account each morning with $86,400.00
It cares over no balance from day to day
Every evening it deletes whatever...

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The world  that a normal person, finds him or herself living from day to day, and that of a writer, who allows their creative...

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All lifeforms are
merely temporary
inhabitants of
planet Earth.
Man's time a
millisecond hidden
in the vastness of
space
Yet  innocents still
suffer needlessly
again and again
In war; No One Wins....

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She asked me
"Is there something on your mind?"
In that millisecond I pondered,
could "something" be on my mind?
And if "something" was on my mind,
would anyone be...

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I know I should love my brother.
But, they stick me in this
forsaken place and say “kill”.
What do I do with this love?
When the enemy stands...

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On the death bed for cessation, a platform free from brawl, 
I perceive in peace my debilitating breath.
And give off a brief one as I...

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(Continued from Part 1)


Transparent figures walk at a flirtatious pace
On world-class runways, with no expression on their face
Parading styles you can't afford in your possession
They...

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Heart Attack Self Help

A viral message of self help  is making its round through whatsapp..
Reportedly written by a cardiologist Dr Siva, a senior doctor...

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He lives between two worlds.
 
One that an average, or sane person, finds him or herself living day to day,
and that of a fictional writer,...

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Thoughts Of Time
Written: by Tom Wright
1-12-2009

Time’s habitual swiftness 
Has lain my majority year’s waste.

In youth, I envisioned my block of time
As belonging to me, and...

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Tomorrow and tomorrows
harken with promise,
reward the dream
in another place,
a gentler space
full of peace and pixies
laughing at Yesterday.

As each Now passes
wrapped as a Present moment,
the Past...

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Do your ears hear-
tiny movements very near?

Do your eyes see-
every millisecond, a different me?

Do your senses acknowledge-
the spasmodic shifts of energy? 

Wavelengths and balance-
universal constant...

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