Best Tearless Poems

Tearless Weeping

Shallow breathing
	Can I breathe?
Control my environment?
Lest the alternative, recluse, seclusion
	This is living death for me
Unacceptable, incapacitating
	Hell on Earth!
	Eternal fire, would be kinder
A nice change
	Physical...

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Open eyed, long tearless, foul silvered orbs
have you no pity? The aqua tide rides dry.
Blind staring scorches, accusing twin barbs
who burrow inward, a destiny to...

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Charmed by her exotic glance
She enchants a sexy dance
In costumed display of art
Strumming rhythms of joyful heart
Choreographing slow grooves
In graceful, musical moves
As gestures paint passion...

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Only Soldiers


They are thanked for their service
by those who never served.
Commended for their bravery
by those who never donned
the colors of the country
the red, the white,...

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I, a Red Skin dog, as some may delight to call me,
I have heard the tales of horror, from my dark skinned foes.
I have heard...

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Autumn’s Shiver


There is an almost imperceptible shiver,
a subtle shift of wind’s breath,
felt only by those who know the season.

It is followed by a quickened pace,
not...

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The sea is so bright and it illuminates the nostalgic night
It sways and sways to the rhythm of my young heart
The clouds are formulating right...

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Dimpled cheeks tearless eyes
pouting lips beguiling smile
the scent of talcum powder blue
 breath as fresh as the morning dew.

Tiny hands  open up to light
warm...

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Thunder thighs
Wonder eyes
Chilly cries
Lilly lies

Broken dreams
Floating steam
Inside green
Outside mean

Holy talk
Spirit walk
Fearless squawk
Tearless tall

Shadows bleed
Ballard sing
Strangers unite
Angels flight...

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Decade
         solid 
              ...

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Lost...
I am dormant on the ground
 In a dark alley not to be found.
A board opposite me writ in red, 
Lifeless I am, please no...

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WATERLESS TEARS


Who would put vinegar on the lips
of those who cry, “We thirst.”
Pour dust into the vase of hope’s evaporating promise?
Deny the single tear shed...

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My confusion comes from too much doing. During the news
eating cheese and crackers, drinking wine, thinking the world
needs me.

Or the falling leaves, the days shorter...

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There were times, long ago,

when the young, preteen me

would intertwine herself

with the age-limp branches

of one of the two odd trees out.

But now, five years later,

the...

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I return each year to make my peace
I wade through  quilts of grass and stone
Beside the  mounds, of cold damp earth
And pray it's...

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