Best Passageways Poems

My eyes fell closed and lashes fluttered
Over creaseless cheeks and smiling lips
And then Time’s carousel had stuttered
And anxiousness had tightened its firm grip
As what once...

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Written: December 30, 2023
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Embrace the oxymoron, if you will.
Shall...

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My wife and I share a passion for travelling, the world we love to see
We travelled through France and Switzerland and we're now in Italy...

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Different corridors different thoughts,
Passageways of the mind,
Journeys into the unknown,
Step inside what surreal bizarre,
Captivating stories it tells,
A lifetime of arcane mysterious secrets, 
Concealed forever within...

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But we of the Three Tribes live undiscovered 
   In the reverberating stillness of the 
 Three Gorges...
And are therefore unknown to the...

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Acrid smoke in the scientist’s bell jar
Blankets of chenille-covered snow
Crystalline carbon diamond star
Drips forming stalactites grow
Effervescent waterfalls’ dreams
Frothy-topped cappuccinos 
Gelid surfaces of lakes and streams
Halos...

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midnight  hour...
this sky is as full
as my mind 
as  i sit here  
trying to connect stars
like thoughts

i can almost hear you 
in...

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COVID-19
A Sequel To 9-11 
Written: by Tom Wright
10/19/01- 4/3/2020

During trying times,
We often search our dark lonely passageways.
Finding scant light
To help us through our days;
As faith's...

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Sorrow does the grave not know
nor bitterness or greed
In the darkness of the grave
lies no fear or inequality

The grave knows not of cloudy days
nor humid...

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In the forest
Grows a tree
And underneath
Their secrets be
Deep below its
Roots extend
Down passageways
That curl and bend
Secrets told to 
Branch above
Nestle down there
Like a glove
They wait there
Patient...

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I've lived in it all my life -
the self's grand fiction -
refuge for the child, youths
rebel fortress and a walled  
cloister to house
the holy...

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IF I COULD TURN BACK THE HANDS OF TIME....

If I could turn back the hands of time,
To sight of green grass and colourful flowers nod...

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A slow funeral dirge loops through my head as I bend the reeds
of wild alley weeds in my old neighborhood, pausing to listen
to the drunken...

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Labyrinth of headache and heartache
Cold steel walls
Surrounding and compounding
Trapped passageways
Constrict and conflict

Navigating carefully
To avoid the hellish realms
Checking my three and my six
But still exist my...

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Slow Dancing the Past
            by Odin Roark

Shadows of yesterday frozen
Even as high noon’s blazing...

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