Best Stares Poems

As i gently clear away
the steam that covers the glass
suddenly!
"he" appears
and for now
"he" is temptation
the very person i fear

Although we look the same
this dead-ringer is not me at all
but a false prophet
who deceives me into running
at his beckon call
"he" controls my thoughts
rents out my face
knows...

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A stranger to the naked eye,
this ghostly apparition glimpsed 
within my eyepiece field of view. 

Scarce in contrast noted,
its pale orb stares back at me
through gossamer, pale eyes. 

An Owl betokened here,
to mark the grave 
of an ancient, dazzling sun. 

That for eons shed its...

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THE BOY STARES AT YOU

He is raggedly scrunched up 
Against a wall of sweating bricks,  
Staring at you with as much pride
As life has thrown at him.

You see he has no desire to make
Conversation with a stranger
To his stale, rank impoverishment
But he smiles anyway...

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Vulpes vulpes stares
Wind whispers, a hunter’s pose
Murine meal under snow

for Debbie Guzzi's Animal Haiku Contest
Shawn Sackman (Northern CA)...

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a fine young deer stares
at something or at someone
its horn got tangled...

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Lover One

Raven feathers fall
Darkness gleams in thick forest
Silent is the squall

Lover Two

May the stare stay locked
Tearing fingers ache in skin
Legs could not hold fear
Why was the past so full then
Now how can I fill this heart...

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AUDIO: 'Sober' by Demi Lovato, a fellow alcoholic recoverer

Seductive Stares

Hippity Hoppity
Elizabeth Bishop
noted writer and her
battle with booze

Troubled lesbian life
vicissitudinous
of film, 'Reach for the Moon'
shows her breakthroughs

Bibidee Bobidee
Elizabeth Taylor
star icon and less known
alcoholic

Eating binge and multi
connubiality
drunkard spouse *Burton tagged
Slippery Dick

*Richard, Welsh star icon

2020 December 25...

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(a mirror)
A wrinkled face
An old man 
The he who stares back
The eyes of a thousand wars
A deprived man confined in a concentration camp
For only three years
The escapee with the supposed malaria
A hero of the war
The Too malnutritioned
Now blind just for us
This new added adjustment
He then...

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Stares in the sky shine so bright
Bring before us our futures
May we receive your powers?
To guide us through life...

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As I prepare to get started with my day
I get hung up along the way
No matter how hard I try to slide by
This man in the mirror that talks to me
Why does he seem to have some kind of hold over me

When I find myself...

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Four millimeters of tempered glass separates your world
from the Homeless Beggar Prince now standing before you 
appearing tattered, torn and trampled on like discarded trash.
No longer a viable phoenix rising to escape winter’s burn. 

Merely a grounded mortal traversing icicle stares with an
aged back and...

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I’ve waited for a lifetime
Waited for smile like an end rhyme

I’ve listened a lot
Listened to voices that made me hot

I’ve lost enough
lost hope and mostly peace

I’ve climbed so high
Climbed Mountains and skies

I’ve played games
Games and won none

I’ve cried much
Much to be harvest with a handkerchief

I’ve...

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I looked at my reflection the other day
I didn't know the girl who looked back at me
Her eyes were so cold, so distance
Her mind trapped waiting to be set free
 
Through her eyes I see she is so empty
Looks as if her soul is gone
Looks...

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Christmas carols linger in the air...Except
for the homeless and hungry,who could not
do anything else but to hunger and not care!
Songs of merryment are unleashed into the
busied city streets...The well to do are
out buying caviar and champaigne,and silken
sheets!TV ads give messages to go out and
spend...While the...

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The rattling clamor of empty beds,
beautiful echoes in memories of those who tamed
the shrieking iron steeds coaxed
along the rails of time, now sit in silence -
out to pasture rusting, and like the bones of life
          ...

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