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Blink Away Poems - Poems about Blink Away

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
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
Premium Member Blink Away Time
...Blink A year is gone Cough Your toddler is getting married Yawn You are in a nursing home Yes It is that fast.......

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Categories: blink away, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Understanding and Accepting
...Tomorrow's just a blink away. And, yesterday was once today. Time moves on in spite of all. Where, once was spring has now turned fall. And, seldom does youth understand,......

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Categories: blink away, age, time, youth,
Form: Rhyme
To the Young Woman In the Green Dress
...Butterfly, from the corner of my eye, you drew my gaze, Wings cloaked in seafoam, hair ablaze with amber and flame, I: transfixed by your figure as you danced into my personal space......

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Categories: blink away, appreciation, beauty, dance, desire,
Form: Free verse
Look Into My Eyes
...Look into my eyes See the humanity inside See where beauty resides See them blue, green or brown See them smile or frown Look into my eyes In my eyes the lies can’t hide The tears glitter be......

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Categories: blink away, beautiful, beauty, fear, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

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