Best Suddenness Poems

I believed in fitness and healthy living, including obtaining sufficient sleep,
To revel for years in buttery sunshine, which makes emerald willows weep.

I consumed only healthier...

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A Quiet Conversation In Church

Someone behind me stifled a cough
Turning around, the stranger nodded back
In the dim light
I made out a determined jaw
Felt thick fingers...

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Absurd Walls:
By Mark Miller 03/08/2018

I sit in wait,
For melancholic relief
Consumes self-trust resistance.
Out from the clear and into the black shatter dust. 
Although, I cannot explain...

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With speedy, gutsy ease
          her Irish father rolls up the front room rug
   ...

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Layer upon 
layer upon 
layer
Living always adds another thick layer over hope.
Sometimes hope is rescued from this layered darkness.
Then slung into the suddenness of light....

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Alone I arrive, walking from Frederick
over the gaps, across gentle hills
out onto a knoll
overlooking this burnished landscape.
Before me I see countless writhing rows
of indiscernible shapes...

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I AM THE HERON


There is a stoicism to me
silent, self reliant, pensive posturing
suddenness of intent and action.

My aggression is calculated,
measured in response to need,
activated by...

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some-tin-can-tan-man 
playing in the sand
with paper tigers
  a bear with many tentacles
red everywhere
	in the skies
  clouds streaming down
hispeed downsload online power lines
 ...

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I was just walking down the street
when it hit me
a quick jab….followed
by a crushing right cross.
I staggered….stunned
by the suddenness of
a seemingly unprovoked attack.
Life, fate, Karma…WHAT!!!
I...

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It looked so right on paper to everyone; but when the night embraced her she was alone, still wanting to believe in love. 

Her footsteps...

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the hour late, I hesitate
to lift the shield of isolation
the walls lean in, as if to hear
they make believe, by breathing hard,
as if they sleep,...

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Sudden awakening that day
A landslide from inside
Expelled
Deep resentments built for years
Tapping into fears
The day reason died

Dystopian awakening that day
Tyranny unleashed by choice 
Willing
Votes for disruption...

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When Z died
I had never cried
So much for someone

Hour upon hour
I would think of her
And a tightness in my chest
Would spread
As I thought of the...

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An underlying theme
breathing sleepy, ice clear and blue
to stop you in your tracks
on a warm summer night,
after having pulled into the driveway
under the honey suckle...

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Interwoven in my DNA
Disjointing chain links
Always lopsided
Never any balance
Overreacting
Overly emotional
Distracted by everything
One day somewhat normal
The next day absolutely abnormal
Super friendly one moment
As reclusive as a...

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