Best Suspension Poems

I’ll meet you halfway 
      set fire to both ends 
        Kiss you in stasis 
      as our world upends
       God it...

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My teacher, she once gave me a C 
The next cycle...she gave me a D 
I was young with no class 
When I pinched her fine … 
But that cycle...she gave me a B...

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What idiots we are, thinking a hard
day’s work will suffice; the hurt that
is measured in years, unconsciously digs
deeper with every sunrise. “I taught these
guys everything they know.” A voluntary
brain drain, tapped to exhaustion, each
one passing out to a brighter world, only
soon to forget. Basic humanity...

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"Tell me the truth!" the principal asked me.
"I don't have any lies....." I replied.
He took a jar, filled it with water, poured clay soil,
and shook it. The jar was seated on his desk.
He looked at me with inquisitive eyes through the glasses,
as the water in...

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In the deans office,
Where I sit, the smell of tea
                    Soothes my fever....

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Frost fall
ice capades
coded...

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My hand on your shoulder;
Your hand on my waist.
We shuffle across the ballroom.
The other dancers swoon by us--
Elegant and graceful
Perfect and in sync.

We struggle to keep some sense of rhythm between us
But I'm two steps ahead of the tune
While you drag your feet.
There is nothing...

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It starts its dance,
shifting and spiralling 
and then...
the suspension game.
Absolutely not!!!
Precariously balanced above my bed.
I do not desire the predator
to become my snuggle buddy,
and reach for the DOOM!
It's one thing to hang around,
and create a spectacular web,
it's another to drop...
falling into my bed.
I spray.
Drenching the...

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What meaning do you give
To lips moving up and down again?
Torn clothes, a broken nose
Drawing a smile on your face with pen

Different ages, different years
A target for abuse, told to refrain
Inside a system punishing the innocent
For going against the grain

Stalking you into a corridor
Eyes from...

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And his job kept him from eating his meal.
He had poured his drink and made an appeal.
He hung up the phone,
And slipped where wax shone.
The spouse juggling coke and pizza surreal.

2/24/2018...

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Stupid. Drunk. Speeding. Andrew. 80. Captive adrenaline. Heart racing. Flying by life. 
Afraid to move. Andrew sleek-faced infant. Stuck to the wheel. Frozen staring straight ahead. 
Untainted flesh still untouched. Running a red light. Striking a tree. Catapulted from safety. 
Breaking through glass. Lurching towards...

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He tasted the forbidden fruit,
          And accepted the tempest into the bows-
                      Of his soul...

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suspension, water

purple, blue, emerald green

wet feathers glisten.

 


(January 28, 2011 Wausau, Wisconsin)


(c) Copyright 2011 by Christine A Kysely, All Rights Reserved...

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Are lingering sighs, while expressing disbelief
Showing some frustration ere welcome relief,
With sincere, rapt attention to what it entails
Carefully absorbing the minutest of details,
Sometimes with the aid of a silk handkerchief.

Then, too, observing the most foolish mischief
Showing itself in a variety of impetuous motif
Sending one off...

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It helps me to optimize possible health-improving wealth outcomes
by temporarily suspending disbelief
we have each chosen to be spiritually reborn into
each and every WinWin opportunity
to optimize mutual healthy-wealth
naturally developed for cooperatively-owned
and integratively managed 
personal enrichment
extending families
and communal celebrations of global WinWin outcomes.

Outcomes more transparent
vulnerable
intimate
curious
courageous
while listening to...

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