Best Staccato Poems

Sometimes I think you can hear
The raging tide in my chest  
Sending waves to my throat.
Do you see them crest at my wrist?
Plunge, recede, and plunge again -
Your undertow has sucked me in.
Like skipping stones over water,
My staccato heart is lost at sea.
No metronome...

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Symbols crashing on each side of the head;
One side magnificent, the other side, dread,

Violins play their calming current,
Bass and Cello raise anxious annulment

My caller is happy, but he carries both dire and grand news,
Someone precious, in trying to lose

Lose his youth, and play his own...

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Surly songs 
Played by hungry men
Plucking staccato roots
Spotted chords of dried dearth
Cleansed in strummed pots of boiling verse...

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Hi,
    it's me...
what?
..say again
No..
   ok
       ..maybe
tomorow:
I'm fine
    with that..
no,
no,
   ...really!
why
   do
     you ask..
of course
        I will..
you
know
...

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To hang your head in shame for past that feeds
the thoughts you cannot tame, rehashing deeds.
‘Look up! Look up!’ at blinding light;
His Grace: display of awful* might.
Relentless worldly worry brings you low.
Look up at blessings He on you bestow.

The world we might have seen through...

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my breath of air ~ fresh and cool ~ from staccato raindrops...

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