Exhales Poems - Poems about Exhales

...noon’s furnace: asphalt shimmers; air—thick, slow— cracks open. cicadas drill through stagnant gold. a sprinkler’s hiccup-hiss: the pavement’s glow un/curls in steam. the hydrant’s shout: uncontro......

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...O moon, the blood-rose pearl of my aching soul, the ghostly seer of hourglass woes ~ heed these wistful words ~ forgive the dreadful quivers between cacophonous quiescence, tre......

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...A hush falls soft on waking land, Where silver threads through silence stand, The trees half-dream in veils of white, Bathed in the breath of fading night. The sun, a whisper on the hill, Spil......

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...Hold the Applause – Pick a Title Vol. 52, 6-8-25, Sponsor Edward Ibeh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hold the Applause Hold the applause As the last note holds it’s breath Befo......

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...When day exhales its golden breath, And dusk begins her gentle dance, The sun slips low, a fiery thread Unraveling the sky's last chance. Between the hush of light and dark, The world holds st......

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...The light withdraws— not abruptly, but with the grace of someone tiptoeing from a room where memory sleeps on every windowsill. Sky smears......

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...Snapshot! - a shutter impales, a life to clicks, betwixt inhales and exhales. Light into pixels, bloodshot in frames kidnapped for a ransom of sometimes soon. Snap! - a dry twig fractures under......

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...Words captured in amber for all eternity—valued for their unique resilience as the tides of time cannot erode them. Our deeds like skipping stones on water sink in although they go unrecorded; the ri......

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...Vice like grip unseen yet tight Pressure building through the night It bends the light distorts the sound A silent storm where pain is crowned My temples pulse in steady aches Like thunder’s g......

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... Written: May 11, 2025, for contest by Joseph May ************* A crimson sky breaks the distant shore, Whispers of dawn amidst a quiet uproar. The sea......

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...I Got Her motherhood is fraught with mistakes hanging from her charm bracelet hourglass wrist; anchor was hooked she’s silent as I longed for her to erupt I needed her warm ear, not......

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...The city exhales steam like a tired beast, its breath pooling in alleyways where no one walks anymore. Cold, wet cobblestones gleam like the backs of forgotten coins, each one holding a secret......

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...She tells me she loves me, but I see the way her hands hesitate, hover in the air before they touch me, like she’s afraid I might crack beneath them. I know what she means when she asks, "Are ......

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...Walking down the riverside at twilight, the sun turns red — a burning star — bleeding into the sky. A quiet star sinks, leaving whispers in its wake, and I drift in the glow, wandering wild and fr......

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...she hears the cheering, the big drums, the cymbals and daddy’s narrative. …hears the crowd’s laughter, the clown’s are after. her heart beats rapidly at the possibility that the ......

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