Between Poems

Born Between Coordinates

I was born in the pause between two coordinates
drawn by cartographers with sterilized hands.
My soul was indexed in miles and postal codes
Filed under miscellaneous anomaly at checkpoints.

I crossed borders that did not exist,
except in the mouths of men with rifles.
My breath was weighed against paperwork,
my shadow flagged by predictive suspicion.

I was processed in buildings with

Between the silent waves of time, I dive into a sea of dreams

Between the silent waves of time, I dive into a sea of dreams,
where the sensations of being are like drops scattered in the vastness of water.
In each drop of pain, I find a warm image, a balm for the soul,
an infinite bath that embraces the whole, soothing with its gentle touch.
Pain, like a shadow dancing

Brave In Between

Before each sunrise, 
One must live through a whole night;
Be brave in between.

The Oculus Between Us

Written: September 2nd, 2025, for Contest Sponsored By Rob Carmack

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You touched me with a selfish grace—  
a twist of tenderness,  
a lover’s rage wrapped in rubicund silk.  
We were prolific in our undoing,  
a clamor of glamor and grit,

Between dream and memory, I dance on the rain that falls slowly

Between dream and memory, I dance on the rain that falls slowly,
I didn't run from the cold drops, but caught them on the tip of my tongue,
Laughter and chaos spun in wide circles of joy,
I stepped on water with bare soles, and the sky was close to us.
We whispered winter stories under the gray and

Between the Stars

In the quiet where chaos meets calm
The stars speak softly, in languages unsung.

Threads of light stretching across the void 
Binding the infinite to the intimate.

The symmetry of the trees in the passing winds...
A quiet harmony born of duality

Teaching us not to conquer, but to join in.

On threads of being stretched taut 
Between what was, and

Between Denial and Reality

You’re not here with me tonight 
But you haven’t been in awhile 
I believe you’re coming home again 
That’s the beauty of being in denial 

That ship has long ago set sail
Any bridges burned and torn down
With my shattered heart and regrets 
I’m a failed king without a crown 

I turned a love so amazing

between us

between us
winter chillness
calling

Between Museum Piece and Curiosity

     a place preserved in memory
        as if in mystic fantasy
     where revolutionaries farmed and fought
        no time for speeches or dialectic thought

     a place where survival was the

Pause Between Summer and Autumn POTD

Seasons Now and After  8-11-25  Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
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Pause Between Summer and Autumn

Summer sighs ~ she pauses to gaze on days  
When sunlight drips from feathery birch leaves
Whispering of growing large, ripening,
Enchantress turns maize to fields of spun gold
She sways in rhythms of pregnant harvests
Only seen in dreams of the equinox.

As white clouds

That Pause between Summer and Autumn

Contest: Seasons now and after
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Date: 12.08.2025


Feel that pause between Summer and Autumn,
When the universe takes a relieved breath,
Before pulling the leaves to the bottom,
Where they fall to their silent crushing death;

Hear that sigh between Summer and Autumn,
Pregnant with the restless rustle of trees,
All good and ready for what God taught 'em,
Whispering soft the

The silence between the words

I love the silence between words, because when I’m talking to her,
every time she stutters, my heartbeat waits for her words to make me alive again.
Every time she looks at me, I think that maybe she’s the one.
Every time I confess my love for her, her silence between the words makes me feel important.

Was she

Half-and-Half Between

half light on the page
words spill yet swallow their truth
a moon veiled in clouds —
I read between the shadows
for the part you did not write

half a tear is mine
half I give to other hands
to carry its weight
shared grief breaks into pieces
small enough for hearts to hold

half my breath holds on
half my breath has wandered free
seeking

The indefinable between

The 

indefinable

between

may appear as

whatever seems

poles apart~

That Pause Between Summer and Autumn

School was out, setting her free in summer -
free to tell friends bye, be lonely and cry.
Tears would spill for a best friend of one year
who she had learned would in time forget her.
Most teens knew same place and faces through school.
Military brats do not live that truth.

Summer would decide her joy for school's start.
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