Best Respirations Poems

Anti-Poem – “Respirations In Blue”

the mother cooks food on the old gas range
wearing a blue dress she boils five potatoes
husband fred wears a red sweater...

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Bilocation – 2-11-24
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Bilocation

Love
Slips through labyrinths of tangled spirits
 Complexities and conundrums of misdirection
Released by prophecy,
Like clairvoyant fingers of misty sunshine
 in two planes
  sharing...

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Democracy is what we do
and breathe together
to empower ourselves.

Some would say the same of prayer
and holy communion
and secular communication
and healthy relationships.

Democracy seems like an empowering...

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Synchronized Perfection 1-26-24
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Synchronized Perfection

Breathe in the feathery tickle, whorls of sweet spice in synonyms,
Similes that make you sneeze exhaling fresh lines of images
On swirls of...

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Expiration Fate

Exhale
breath in retreat…
life… denying stasis
of respirations yin and yang -
fulfilled..


John G. Lawless
6/4/2015

submitted to – Cinquain – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Sara Kendrick...

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Metamorphosis 


The future looms so much closer now
no dreams weave a halo around its outcome
aspirations have dwindled to respirations
insistence on continuing the game of life.
Most...

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In Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged"
she paints a nationalistically wealthy saint
where also lives a monochromatically utilitarian narcissist,
sucking on attachment to fame and power
for bought and sold...

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Scent of men and sweat pervade this little space
away from vast expanse of exercise machines at this gym.
Here they strain beneath laden bars
or lift and...

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allusive winds splatter metal amok
chasing leaves mark time across
cement jungles of error burn ravishing
imprints across eyes of the innocent

seasons beckon sweeping funnels
bitter rage evacuates human...

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Silent evaporative collection up high
White touches the blue, the spectrums delight

Your presence dictates the mood down below
With oceans and trees respirations you grow

Your gloom makes...

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You are the crimson surge
I am your crimson desire 
The bird radiates a crimson urge
Comes about the sapphire

You vivify the respirations 
I deeply breathe your...

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Reading to him line after line
Word after word
She closely watches him as he sleeps
Pain free and peaceful
Comfortable and prepared 

Heart rate fading 
Color changing
Temperature cooling
Respirations...

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The days grow shorter on the spindle 
of North winds crispy, frosted breath
and winter patches white o'er brindle
where autumn's bow has left her flesh.

The hours...

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The September odoriferous winds
Are not unlike my lover’s perfumed breath.
Their sometimes subtleties, like cherubs wings
Moving warm fragrant air across the earth;
Like unto slumberous respirations
My lover’s...

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First,
competing dominant patriarchs
become filled with climate toxic fear
about long-suffered win/lose evolutions
presuming Earth's great revolutionary Rapture.

Second,
hopeful matriarchs touch
and taste
and see
and hear win/lose suffering ecosystems
stubborn-headedly turning
to embrace...

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