Breather Poems

Her silence she bled

...Alone in the silence of the night 
Not a peep, not a sound, not a single noise
Yet between the quiet folds of silence
Sat a young girl crying
Barely noticeable to even the shadows in her room 
Y...
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Categories: breather, depression, discrimination, mental health,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberMuseum of my Mind

...I would make a museum of my mind
Fill these musty halls with all my people
Every girl who has walked my corridors 
To write her piece and paste it on the walls. 

Every plaque together, a mosaic...
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Categories: breather, me, self,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberThinking about Nevermind!

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Thinking about Nevermind!

Skinny dipping soaked in bleach, albino by design 
Eyes burning, -Something in the way- future gives a sign
No pacifier needed, when remuneration’s on the line 
Keep...
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Categories: breather, age, music, perspective,
Form: Ekphrasis

Premium MemberDecember's Cold As Ice

...December morn, Claus's wife's horn, squeezed out,
Good tempers worn, Claus wretched concern,  about,
Elves night, the naughty list grew,
Claus's name was added too,
She's crackers turned, Claus s...
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Categories: breather, christmas, december, parody,
Form: Limerick

Dance in the Orchard

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When the leaves of autumn take a breather, they fall
dropping colored reminders of their curtain call.

Winter's bare branches show the icy pall of death -
but underneath lie seeds waiting for ...
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Categories: breather, 11th grade, dance, growth,
Form: Couplet


Just A Moment

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For A Moment 
lend me your arms
I need embraced 
even if, only for a breather 
from this stifling atmosphere 

hold me gently, but
tight enough so I could 
absorb into my pores the 
warmth...
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Categories: breather, desire,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHow -WE- Won The West

...Created this for a blog, but I am unncertain as there's an absence of accountabilty that would assure me of the values that I've delineated, has been ascertained.

I've effected a furtheran...
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Categories: breather, analogy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberQuantum Challenged VI

..."Referencing an old poetic imagism sort of poem I wrote some four years ago--almost to the day---wherein lies a paradox," ... by The Poet. 

MIRROR, MIRROR 

I was in a room,
there, I sa...
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Categories: breather, analogy,
Form: Imagism

Premium MemberBest Years of our Lives

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    What is fun at ninety-one
       a window to the rising sun

    The setting sun’s not bad either
       though in-between I need a breather 
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Categories: breather, age, fun, sun, sunset,
Form: Couplet

Premium Member- A Blank Canvas -

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    Blank canvas gives you 
    a fresh start to the day
    Every now and then
    we all need impulses
    Focus on the positive, 
    you are allowed to let loose a little
    The puzzle i...
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Categories: breather, celebration, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGood Times, Bad Times

...We live in good times
(by most historical standards)
Yet more accurately these are the best of times,
and the worst of times, as not only is there everything
imaginable happening, but
every up m...
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Categories: breather, anxiety, emotions, perspective, society,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberInterrogated by Batmans Grandma

...If you think Batman is tough, you should meet his Gran.
She is nail-tough, agreed Leroy, Tony, Jack and Stan.
You can’t get anything past her, she has an evil eye.
This was added to the conversati...
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Categories: breather, 10th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme

A mother's plea

...I can't believe you are now seven
In a blink of an eye you will then turn 18
And maybe the next morning when I wake up
You will soon outgrow my lap

You're my sweet little girl full of charm
So...
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Categories: breather, mother daughter,
Form: Rhyme

Not Who But What Is It

... What is this remarkable force that emcompasses and incapulates all that one can comprehend and or see.
Where does this amazing and extraordinary power reside, where does it slumber, where could...
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Categories: breather, adventure, analogy, future, happiness,
Form: Rhyme

Breather of Life

...ALMIGHTY GIVE TO ME THE LIFE THE BREATHER OF LIFE ALMIGHTY I NEED HIM TONIGHT PROCEED "THE RIGHT BELIVE IT OR NOT HE WILL. DON'T STOP.SO WATCH WAT COMES TO THE DARK. COMES TO THE LIGHT. WAY BRIGHT HE...
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Categories: breather, adventure, africa, allah, angel,
Form: Free verse

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