Best Snapshots Poems

The soft clip-clop of the horse 
echoed amongst the dark fir trees.
The tall man rode bareback
along the winding path of the forest.

Resting on his leathery gauntlet
sat an alert hawk, listening and watching.
Soon it flew off towards some poor rodent,
His prey for the day.  The...

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Her tears fill up the ocean, 
life scenes are in slow motion. 
 Each snapshot takes a toll, 
  on her lost and empty soul. 
 As she awaits shapeless train 
  headed to melancholy lane. 

 











04/29/2023...

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In the dimming light of her bedroom,
a child sits facing the wall in her bad chair.
She has to go potty, but she doesn’t dare.
So she stares at the wall in the gathering gloom.

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Her mind is swirling with fear as the curtains billow in the wind,
lightning...

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I remember my cherished Wolf Cub pack, 
How I loved those Wednesday evenings, 
The games, the pomp and seriousness of the camps, 
The different coloured scarves, sweaters and hair 
During the mass meetings, 
The solemnity of my enrolment, 
Being helped up a tree by an...

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Snapshots
by Michael R. Burch

Here I scrawl extravagant rainbows.
And there you go, skipping your way to school.
And here we are, drifting apart
like untethered balloons.

Here I am, creating "art,"
chanting in shadows,
pale as the crinoline moon,
ignoring your face.

There you go,
in diaphanous lace,
making another man’s heart swoon.
Suddenly, unthinkably, here...

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And memories still linger 
memories of choruses of swindlers
singing melodies 
in criminally inclined rhapsodies
minimally inspired to stop the crime
i floundered, yes i fumbled 
and practically watched them
making off with time
mostly mine, some of it pilfered
some of it taken straight up 
i've been set up in...

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Lists
of dreams
Daddy mailed
with sternness changed
his playful nature emerged and prevailed

Mom smiles engaged in lifts of happiness
decorating
sweets baking
gifting 
love

Bro
cocoa
blanket warm
Christmas lights drive
siblings mingling in anticipation




... CayCay
December 15 2017...

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Snapshots



Sitting by calm riverside, adjusting the aperture,
As mind attests the perfect landscape to capture;

Taking few small leaps, not to leave a nuance,
He is fast ready to click a string in temerity;

Be it anything, a marrow or a barren,
His shoots whisper countless historic tales;

A flower's subtle...

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Ordained kaleidoscopic turn of the time wheel,
the vacillating vista of life’s lattice designed
on mindscape mimicking chameleon skin colors
of the wasteland ash or the meadow emerald.

Convergent vision zooming on diffused dreams,
glances at the tapestry of transient ecstasy
on the wings of the flittering butterflies,
brings to focus of...

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Love doesn’t mean we will be together. Love doesn’t mean it will work. Love does mean I won’t forget you. Better times have been stored as snapshots, not hard to find. Even though now moved aside, becoming hidden by your request, in the depths of...

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Through the lens of a lifetime
Moments captured
Who we are
Who we were
Warm memories
Colors softened by time
Infinitely archived
In the album
Of our heart...

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secluded to my darkroom,
a roladex filled with
years of negatives,
an ambient light
illumination failed
transparent,
focus lost,
exposure.....

In the foreground
I found depth
through perception,
develop contrast
light and dark 
now shutter in harmony,
my composition.....

mere snapshots in our mind
but to me a single canvas 
that depicts two
lifetimes...

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In the olden days 
My mother only took one photo for me
As a new born with the family members
My childhood gone plain without photos
When I got my 1st salary 
I bought a camera
To take photos wherever I go
With my family
Schoolmates
Friends 
Colleagues
Now When I open the...

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For traveling 
We travel transversely
Either poverty or prosperity
Doesn't matter
A bicycle on the road is poverty
A car on the road is prosperity
But when we see many bicycles on the road
We feel astonished and take many snapshots
But cars on the road isn't unusual
For traveling 
We choose something...

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f ervid
  l ayered ~
   a rrive unbidden ~
    s napshots of joy
      h earten same ~ 
        b ully reviews
      ...

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