Best Pause Poems

You can bleed me blind,
execute my eyes, 
victimize my vision, 
immolate my imagery, 
nullify my name, 
suppress me into silence, 
slaughter my soul, 
execute my ego, 
slay my spirit, 
veil my verses, 
poison my prose, 
annihilate my alliterations, 
ravage my rhymes, 
waste my words, 
vaporize...

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concerned about being upstaged
the glorious blue tinted rock
negotiated 
sent in the puffy white wisps 
to cover the vibrant coloured evergreens

the brown field in the foreground
felt offended
wondering out loud 
"what about me?"
then added "beauty you know is..."
but never bothered to finish the cliché.

for my part
i was...

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On your mulberry canvas
I inscribed my tangerine sun 
Cached behind a dark rock
When violet dawn broke

Beneath orchid clouds
Your lilac brushstrokes arose
From steel-blue ocean
As gentle winds tickled
Platinum-hued ripples

I sprinkled orange glow 
Where you embossed
Shades of ruby-desire
On pink-rose magenta
Floating on purple fire

In silence we held hands
Celebrating romance
Ablaze...

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Hate, hate 
and more hate
so much it frustrates 
Don’t serve that man 
or that woman
put away those plates
leave them to their own fates
loving only you and me
looking out for our own mates

America, America
a new patriotic kinda wisdom.
Dividing lines 
protection and devision. 
Those with less who...

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Winds constant through the trees, grounding
Designer's chemtrail plans, if just for today.

Fresh air reminds me of forgotten hope, when
Dreams ran on laughter's wings, and everyone
Was free.

No speeches rang from State Fair soapboxes,
Imploring masses to wake from their slumber.

The daily grind was once more fresh-brewed,
Without even...

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A Pause Long Enough

I don't mind
if you sit 
at the head of the table
I have no desire
to take your place from you
You can tell me your stories
Yes you can tell me of your many accomplishments
I will give of my ears
by listening intently
I will ask you...

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mood swing crescendo 
         ovarian rhapsody 
      husband takes cover 




1/14/2021...

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A Pause Long Enough

I don't mind
If you sit 
At the head of the table
I have no desire
To take your place from you
You can tell me your story
You can tell me of your many accomplishments
I will give of my ears
By listening intently
I will ask you questions
For...

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The gaps in her sentences
are always filled with insights from others
Who prompt her to speak a truth she does not ascribe to

They witter and order and claim her thoughts as their own
Changing the essence of what she feels
so that she offers saccharine lies

Seething inside she...

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Pause a while think
There is a mystic 
From nature 
On the globe,

Like an air
It blows to life 
For a reason,


Pause a while think
If you fail to live with love,
Then what is your next option?
Who taught you that isolation 
Is good?
What made you descriminate,
Your fellow human...

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At Last we Pause
For: Robert Allen Wise
And at last we pause on dirty streets,
At somber rest with eternal peace.
A moment’s sleep on Satan's floor
With a constant dream of heaven’s door
The cry of battle has embrace its death
As vengeance draws its last breath
One good soul ascends...

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Into to the night I sway - stolen away
entering stars  scattered cross a naked sky
with your beauty at my side  I cried
looking into those diamond eyes 
mesmerized  can't help but sigh
You  take me places I've never been
reaching heights ever close to...

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Stone covered with moss
Motionless in stream moaning
So wind dries the tree
The birds seek green from sky still
Haunted by rocks of dead stars...

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the pause
realigning
with his true north



posted on August 26, 2018...

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As we say grace around this table
sadly some are just not able
to fold their paws, to bow their head
repeat the words as they are said
and yet with reverence here they sit
just happy to be part of it.

A sip of tea, a muffin crumb
some jelly licked...

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