Best Tacit Poems

Tacit love

I floated near her
Like I really, really liked her
Meandering silently
Breathing her fragrant air.

My wordless desire
Touched her loving profile
Long enough to win
A tiny courteous smile.

One day I almost said hello
But before approaching her
I searched deep within
My reservoir of empty treasure.

Still, I didn't give up
Holding on...

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Take a step back
just for a second, 
you'd see her face 
the real her, 
not the one with the smile 
the one that's always ready to comfort

she sometimes needs to be comforted 
she sometimes yearn for that hug 
not because she is weak,
but because she...

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A bear cub dashing eastward found Gil Hillcrest.
Inebriated, joyfully kicking, laughing, merrily nauseated.
Observing practically quiet rapaciously stopped.
Tacitly, unexpectedly, voraciously, whipped, X-Gil.
Yesterday's zealous-zap!

So the story goes.
Tomorrows feast; who knows?
Opportunities like Gil Hillcrest are rare.
Practically a sitting duck; what luck!

The band at the bar began their break.
Their...

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just dawned upon me awareness today
April 20th, 2022 14:30 military time.

Unvoiced law of the land
obeyed lest one
who owns temporary priority
will get mad and deliver hex
upon generations of violator
even if parked car property
of an innocent visitor,
who knew not the space
self relegated to Matthew Scott.

Fifth anniversary of our occupancy
housed...

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Corona 
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I
The Poems I didn't write
Are words that sit tight
In throat, trials, every fight
Between Beloveds

II
She told others but just not him
His loving, living, quarreling
Were poetry in motion, a ring
Of words binding 
Finger, hand, heart

III
Imagine a world, a family, couples ...
Who spoke the poems of life &...

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