Breathless Poems - Poems about Breathless

I dreamt of a siren with crystal skin and quaint braided hair. her eyes, slow swirls of undying azure, coiled around, her salt-sweet chorus tightening at my throat The alluring notes pierce through my rasp scream— In cold sweats I wake up nauseous— My vocal cords enfolded in her skin. ...

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the sun went down over the serenity of our lake sinking into the far depths of the beyond leaving a kaleidoscopic trail of colours behind it and for a long breathless moment a masterpiece was suspended in mid air a magical spell being cast as if peace might reign over the world AP: Honorable Mention 2025...

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"I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean." from the song "I Hope You Dance" by Lee Ann Womack When I first saw the ocean as a child, I was in awe of its waves, both mild and wild, crashing onto the shore as I waded through warm sand. Still, its massive presence renders me breathless decades...

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Breathless, words like cordyceps adhere to my throat, Choking me as the unspoken wrap around, seizing vocal cords. Sticking fingers down, I claw to clear closing airways, Yet the more I struggle, the more entwined they become. Disconsolate spores have taken root within heaving lungs, Spreading to each chamber of the heart, systematically. Transported through streams of hemoglobin, Swiftly infecting Broca's area before...

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You left me breathless, When you walked away, You stole the air straight from my lungs, When you broke my heart that day. You left me breathless, When your words were spoken, You drowned me on dry land, When your promise to me was broken. You left me breathless, When you did what you said you wouldn’t do, Your words choked me, Until I turned blue. ...

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I feel like a wilted, straight cut rose taken from my garden with a quick snip. Displayed in the aura and heat of a stage beauty and bouquet are a burden. Breathless, I long for normal, to be myself again. ...

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You Left Me Breathless your beauty overwhelmed me your life was so carefree I loved you more than you did know perhaps I told you more than show when you said goodbye tears fell from the sky with you I was so blessed without you I am so breathless ...

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"I want to see thirst In the syllables, touch fire In the sound; feel through the dark. For the scream." ~ Pablo Neruda I taste the pulse of stars coursing through rhymes, stirring my moon-swept soul, as I ache for your soft blue sparks of poetry, breathless and lost in the musky heat of phrases etched beneath champagne skies, wrapped in threads of chiffon-laced heartbeats. And...

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“Poetry is an expression of innate emotions, entrancing the muse with the excitement of dedicated offering”- By Poet I breathe poetry of ebullient emotions, the sensual designer of dulcet dreams, searching for the sense of fervent feelings. As they mingle with the tone of my twilight time, my mind merges with the sentiments of belonging, where...

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“Love can change a person’s life, leave him breathless, either building him or breaking him”~ By Poet * * * ...

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Contest: Breathless Sponsor: Constance La France Written: 24/05/2025 Quote "To breathe is to live, and without breath, there is no life." — Lailah Gifty Akita A breathless house wheezes Winter looms with frost-laced breath, this house shudders in anticipation- Its narrow corridors wince at the thought. These rooms have shrinking walls, their windows wedged shut, And doors refuse to stay open. The air hangs heavy, like...

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“Let silence teach”, the master said “that soul may be by God’s hand fed, whence graced by His touch, we ascend, on choosing to be by love led.” Inertia cajoles us to blend with the crowd that we may defend, attachments to which our heart clings, though all that begins will soon end. Time holds its breath when our heart sings and it is...

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Baby's first breath Requires a regulated inhalation of air Expelled through exhalation Allowing life to begin. This is usually followed by Hearing baby's loud cry Letting relieved parents to Express their delighted excitement. Signified by wide satisfied smiles Sometimes this elation leaves them breathless....

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Written: May 25, 2025, for Contest: Sponsored by: Constance La France Quote: "There is a place where voices sing your beauty, A place where every breath carves your image in my soul. Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws" By Rumi ...

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“Maybe love doesn't come from the heart. Maybe it's a psychic jolt that wakes you when you touch them, leaving you breathless.” Christy Johnson Butterfly kisses and his breath upon my cheek. Racing heart of mine. I could not resist as he Enticed me with his gaze. Words he had no need to speak. Anticipation peaked when that angel...

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