Best Vanishing Poems

In my portrait of life   the
    palette began in pigments
of blue, red and yellow,
         but with each stroke,
my horizons slowly dissolved   into
  mustard, muddy brown 
and burnt orange.

Not everything...

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Sam Ebenezer
a sad ol' geezer
was lamenting his shrinkage of late:
my worthless ding-a-ling
is a bell without ring
my manhood in diminishing state
 
From whence I salute
is thin as a flute
and soft to the touch as cashmere
I search with persistence
it offers resistance
on nature's call to appear
 
On heeding...

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When the sky mimics an illusory highway,  
  camouflaged in colors of confusion,  
    crowded with contrasts of chaos,  
I stand stranded    at the crossroads,  
   draped in   distorted resolutions,...

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  They thundered across the fertile plains,
  Those hardened hooves, those tangled manes,
   But now the Buffalo can't be found.
   They thundered across the fertile plains.
   The long grass has vanished from the ground
   Where...

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I Was The Sun, You The Vanishing Frost

I will listen to you but will you talk
of sorrow's night, you took that leaving walk
sun-burnt memories all that remains
and tragedy of Love's saddest bloodstains.

I can beg but I know the cause is lost!
I was the Sun, you...

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Defying oblivion-propelled anguish
our eyes linger at family pictures
beholding life cycle's vibrant features
now vanishing, causing hearts to languish…

There’s Dad of boyish grin; Mom with glad smile
juxtaposed along their grandparents’ glow 
exposing vitality’s lessened flow
yet, cheering us to preserve good old style…

Though fading from their brilliant hues...

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Memories flutter like Post-It notes,   
   with scribbles faint and worn.
Reminders fade in the winds they’ve made,
   my pages are tattered and torn.
Notes twist and swirl, then dip and curl, 
   in a wild and frantic breeze.
A...

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I wished you could feel the same feeling, but it was not reciprocal.
Your heart belong to another. I understood. You cannot say to your
heart whom to love. It was heartbreaking, but it was overcame.

I wished you all the best. Although, I don't know if someday...

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I wish most would
what a beautiful world 
we would have

still
I want one back

the poet
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(African populations are being killed off by war,
famine, disease, and neglect...when will we try to help them?)

Time,
stretching out, encompasses curtains,
on distant savannas, of shimmering heat.
And animals vanish:
ibex and antelope; elephant; grouse.
Here once, now going or gone.
Time vanishes now.

Moldering greenery, mute,
moves mainly in wind --
pliant life,...

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Endangered species
Plunging to oblivion
Extinction awaits...

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A disenchanted lover
paints joy with a frugal brush.
And hidden in the shadows,
love eludes understanding.

Smiles cannot camouflage fears
that accompany spilled tears.
And navigating blindly,
trust pursues fantasy dreams.

In a cocoon of sadness,
hope starts to metamorphose.
And wishes, spin silken threads
into a dream catcher's web.

Seemingly caught in mid-flight,
dreams arrive on...

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two lines converge mirage meets ~ unrequited love on a one way street...

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Nine wild mustangs canter across the prairie
Old West symbols of animals on free range
Known to them is only one adversary

-- Pounding hooves fade into history’s pages

Magnificent specie appears unwary
Victim of habitat infringement and change
Government roundups so unnecessary

Protection not offered, to the contrary
Mustangs captured and sold...

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Nested in the cat’s cradle
Paraded in a child’s fable         
I have no voice, don’t let me die
No longer shall I live a lie
I have no soul nor thoughts to save
Unbeknownst to me is
this life beyond the grave?
A...

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