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Best Slowness Poems

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Gone, But Not Forgotten
Great sun, your day is drawing to a marvelous close.
The horizon seems ablaze as you slowly spill into the turning of night.
Tomorrow we shall see...

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© Tobey Hill  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slowness, absence, beauty, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Harbinger Birds of Spring Potd
With the incoming sounds of spring, a resurrection of life,  
the chilliness flees. Quote _ by Poet 



Ready for a new season, Spring birds
Shake...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slowness, bird, spring,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Avoiding Beautiful September
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The personal is boring
as are my ruminations on the war.
What I need to do I can't try: 
wander without shelter in the backcountry.
Or go deeper...

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Categories: slowness, beautiful, care, god, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Dawn
The Dawn


The Dawn, with enormous slowness, penetrates
Chasing darkness back behind his gates
Where, displaced, he will a while reside
Forced to retreat before the crimson tide
That creeps...

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Categories: slowness, morning,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Peace In the Nowhere
"Peace in the Nowhere"

Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words 
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere

someplace relevant to...

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Categories: slowness, muse, poems, poets,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Reunion
I went to my high school reunion:
I wasn't sure what to expect.
Would those we once held so high
Retain our aged respect?

High school cliques had disappeared;
our...

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© Ann Peck  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: slowness, age, celebration, friendship love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member No Satisfaction
“I can't get no satisfaction, I can't get no girl reaction
'Cause I try and I try and I try and I try“

   ...

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Categories: slowness, marriage, sensual,
Form: Free verse
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism
Disability, Illness and Fundamentalism

My brother died of Cystic Fibrosis, 
When I was twelve and he fourteen, 
It took away his ambitions, 
To study at Oxford...

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Categories: slowness, atheist, cancer, health, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
A Recipe For Kinky Romance
hell fire desires running wild
like a passion driven hot rod with burning tires

scorching licks of frenzied lust
whip raw touches that spontaneously self combust
pressurized slowness yielding...

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Categories: slowness, desire, food, love, lust,
Form: Rhyme
The Preparation of the Wise Men - the Camels
They always made me happy, 
The camels of the wise men, 
The slowness of their footsteps, 
Their self-sufficient ben. 

Camels meant there was time, 
For...

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Categories: slowness, animal, christian, christmas, december,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Soul Stance River - 4
William Branton has just run into camp as if the earth is falling away from his heels,
he has spotted a large cluster of Indians to...

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Categories: slowness,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Cemetery Witnessing
In the late 1970s I was a bricklayer, and for about half a year we worked in a new housing allotment along a state highway...

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Categories: slowness, bereavement, death, farewell, life,
Form: Prose
Tingling Numbness
Her screaming 
Yet somehow i managed to see her death in my mind
Just to be reunited with him
I curled and rolled in bed
Missing and wishing
Crying...

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Categories: slowness, angst, anxiety, depression, fear,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Spiteful Minds - Edward Mccormick
"Spiteful Minds" 

by~ Edward McCormick 

Disdainfully negotiating gain, 
The spiteful mind their heart's desire alone. 
An obvious destruction they attain 
Through dialogue with underlying tone....

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Categories: slowness, confusion,
Form: Sonnet
Growing Up In a Christian Household
Growing Up In A Christian Household 

My dad was such a FRAMER then that I oft just felt like a FARMER,  
No alternative routes...

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Categories: slowness, child, dad, faith, gospel,
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things