Best Vapor Poems

In the grand scheme of things
	what are we but tiny
	specks of dust in the wind?
	
	In God's plan what is life?
	A brief sojourn like a
	quickly vanishing mist
	

based on Bible verses and a 1978 song by Kansas


Date: December 8, 2019
Contest Title: Best Free Verse July-December 2019
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Oxygen is depleting from what remains within the confines of which, a means to an end, lie guarded. Watch as hope disappears within the aftermath of this wreckage, which was constructed-meticulously seeking absolute perfection…; only to be as free as fatalities-secrets’, which barriers this perimeter—forming...

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Walking on clouds in the heavenly blue 
In a job that I loved, with a sky view,

Let me travel with a smile on my face. 
I've sojourned afar in aloha's grace.

Every city, every place had a song...
A melody played as I sang along.

As many years...

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Once upon a time while touring ancient Egypt land,
A frugal auld tourist from the bonny land of Scotland,
Decided the mysterious pyramids he desired to see,
And he demanded to visit them for a very nominal fee!

He repaired to his hotel bar, sat down and ordered a...

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fog fingers the frost
licking, lifting lovingly
vesper of vapor...

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Rose petals plated on caste mold
Savory patent impressed on manifold
From Nature's palate sweet oils doled
Essence of extracted beauty flowed

Into fashioned vial tinged with gold
Nature's, vintage aphrodisiac bankrolled
Mysterious guise, transparent, yet stunningly bold
Onto suave cheeks the charming potion scrolled

Distilled love massaged into every, ivory fold
Enamoring scent...

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Life, a Vapor
Written: by: Tom Wright
1-17-2012

Life’s footprints,
I correlate to tracks in fresh snow;
Track depth or stretch of days 
Hold no lasting significance,
For flow of time and noon day sun
Prompt both to fade beyond existence,
And others to question, if in fact,
They ever existed.


Acts 17: 31 KJV
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Incantations of A Dancing Marionette, Dancing Nighttime directional Vapors of Death 

invisible, nefarious fumes that make the dead
terminations that rises, to awaken one's head
up and vomit!  plead and shout! 
but your voice needs air to breath    
now Deceased, a (the) criminally...

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Near the belching
condensate tanks
off the interchange,
slinks a mammal
with abnormal need

to find a blind
with water to drink
and flapping fish to eat
instead of concrete.

He sheds a scowl
under the amber glow
of buzzing sodium lamps
until veins gather force
like throbbing tributaries

that course from a source
pure in flexing purpose;
despite how we...

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who loses
when my life is a shimmering
heat vapor?...

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Tires hurt,

 leaning left
 far too long-

Rubbed raw…

A few feet away, fist-sized clouds of
Tiny Scarlet Trempeleau Butterflies paused-

Sipping nectar glistening like jewels from
Morning drops of dew, clinging to the running

Strands of Wild Pea Bush, with only daybreak in 
The distance…

These beasts outside my window,
Hazy under...

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the cloak around this world is a breathing vapor, 
spreading through the streets & sewers. 
carrying an illnes that reaches deep 
through every vein and living cell of humanity 
but some people fight against it, 
in the bliss of a touch by their divine spirit,...

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Ice is water that held the container tight 
and found the shape of its containment just right. 
Water has no shape when not confined, 
No dish, no jar, or holding wall to design. 
Vapor is water without many friends 
Up from the heat and containment...

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There is only one time when I’ll need you;
Like Ice cream doesn’t need a banana.
So, until I do, or the ice cream does,
I will be on this side of Havana....

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Gossamer heavenly veil, stardust, the vapor of creation....

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