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Blink Away Poems - Poems about Blink Away

No Flag on the Hill
...No Flag on the Hill He woke to the hiss of burning plastic a child's shoe, half-melted in the road. Something like singing came from the mosque, but it was only wind through broken glass. ......

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Categories: blink away, crazy, heartbroken, humanity, war,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member In This Golden Cage
...In Secret Caverns, we harken to the darkness. Our headlamps’ shut off, we are anywhere, we are everywhere, it doesn’t matter where. No matches, no breeze, no breath to strike up the light, no......

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Categories: blink away, introspection, silence,
Form: Verse



Woman , Yours
...Oh dear ! You are better off I’m not a smiling doll to play with you Don’t stain me with your fingers and words I’m possessed by a holy evil Don’t yell my dear ! Even as an embryo the worl......

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Categories: blink away, abuse, angst, betrayal, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Prismatic Self
...Night time again. I ask for god to forgive me. An hour passes, I blink. I see myself in the reflection of my eyes. Pages sit on my bed, unwritten, I don’t dare touch them So they may remain compl......

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Categories: blink away, angst, desire, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Awaking from Stupor
...It’s not desire per say but the clinging sunlight, bathing my skin and kissing my rosy cheeks, as all but once I am awake again, with summer dancing in my eyes. It is a moment before the darkn......

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Categories: blink away, angel, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse



Between the Years
...I see the elderly in the young. I see them carrying home in a string bag, onions, large carrots pale red nub-ends poking through tattered holes. A scarf tied over thinning gray hair. A face b......

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Categories: blink away, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Candle Born
...Please leave behind a candle born to blink away dark of night.. as stars give way to distant morn, please leave behind a candle born. Though night voices call out forlorn, and timid few......

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Categories: blink away, birth, light, night,
Form: Triolet
Premium Member Ripples
...Sitting in the corner watching ripples in my beer I blink away the wetness but those ripples reappear This used to be our corner and my grin was ear to ear But now I sit alone here watching ripple......

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Categories: blink away, loneliness, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Pain Like This
...no one told me it would hurt like this. like sandpaper scraping through my veins. head pounding, body aching, tied and bound with chains. they never explained the pain I'd feel or the way my b......

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Categories: blink away, addiction, anxiety, dark, drug,
Form: Rhyme
In a Moment's Time
...Strolling down a bustling road full smiling of people A vast array of hues bursting forth to greet the eye of the beholder; Music cascades from the various shops and one of the passing cars Laught......

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Categories: blink away, anxiety, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member After Death Than What Happens Next Part Two
...After death happens than what next? The third heaven is separated from the first heaven by the second heaven called the universe. And yet for all born again believers in Jesus Christ, the third heave......

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Categories: blink away, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Insatiably Needing Angels
...Cluster, clan, hanging bunch of grapes - bustling collection children I dreamed - Far from rationale, imagination run wild - Adult life ridicules, idea is far less esteemed ......

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Categories: blink away, adventure, angel, blessing, care,
Form: Rhyme
Glacial
...GLACIAL Scent of lilies. His pain over, mine just begun. I caressed those hands, gifted, loving. Kissed his waxen brow. A blink away from the dying sun, the ignition key trembled. I half-ex......

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Categories: blink away, 5th grade, absence, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Wildfire Season - Repost
...Wildfire season - I inhale, and choke On fiery air, try to blink away haze But all the sunlight is full of smoke Drizzling embers fall in a burning dose Like stealthy predators, they come too clo......

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Categories: blink away, anxiety, environment,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Neighborhood
...Neighborhood Dawn rises touching the hilltop - new light swelling with the smell of coffee and bacon. Eyes blink away the sandman’s residue, loud yawns like lions, footsteps in pj’s resound on st......

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Categories: blink away, adventure, childhood, fun, western,
Form: Haibun

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