Long Blink away Poems

Richard Lamoureux has not forgotten me during my absence. He faithfully visits my older writes and leaves lovely encouraging comments. While I'm busy working on my thesis, I got this notification on this poem. 

Richard's...

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How cryptic would I have to be to get this off my chest
One score and yet it seems like yesterday it was the best
Most simple feeling that a girl could ever come to realize
A moment...

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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 heaven...

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I see you bent low
Your head in your hands
Tears dropping on the table cloth
The heavy sighs that no one can hear
Fill my ear
Even past the wall 
Between eternity and finite time
I hear
I see
Your guardian angel...

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Penelope Alecknavage nee perskin whose death aye assay
to comprehend, this son of the late Harriet Harris - 
   November thirteenth 2016 marked her eighty first birthday
if she still lived these last eleven years...

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I am not sure I feel pain anymore
Perhaps it is the numbness in my soul
Stricken by the frailty of my heart
That has mercilessly been an object
Of exhibition from dry bones
Perhaps it is the gruesome discord
Between...

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I hid
Bricks formed into a patchwork ochre cuboid
The planet 
One side in unforgiving chill 
And the other
                  ...

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Afternoons the sky shuts down around the swamp's warning tapes
propped up with restoration piping and dirt leak fencing.
We’re fleeing toward the wild, seeking the names and shapes, 
the same way the Cedar Waxwing flit and...

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Spun out with no controls
Space craft exploded on the water
Solid impact on the emptiness
No land on this strange world 
Saved by a fractured pod
Captured capsule by gravity strong
On this giants silver waves
All else disintegrated in...

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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.

I apologize for staring at...

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When it’s time for them to go…although we’d love for them to stay
We try to show we’re happy…when good friends move away.

We remember the first time we said hello…and our body lets out a sigh.
There’s...

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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 staircases – breakfast...

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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...

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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 bent over a struggling heart.

Then,
that same...

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I knew a group of ladies once, yes, I knew them quite well.
Let me tell you, they had some serious stories to tell.

No one spoke of them c’ept in between these four walls.
Because we didn’t...

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She Cries
Cynthia Garcia


Wet Cold tears begin to flood her eyes
Only a blink away from showing her soul
Only a blink away from showing her mine
I don’t know what to do

My chest tightens with overwhelming uncertainty 
This...

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For all you patriots, for all you who have a home to call, I both pity and 
envy
you.
In my short life, I have come to find out that the realization of having no home is...

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The cold is still spreading, engulfing me,
Down over my head to my eyes,
And as it passes over my eyes they are blinded!
Bright! Direct! Blinding! Not soft and dim.
It is a cold light, like the cold...

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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
Laughter pleasantly warms...

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i have seen the pale horse
unmask your face
color it white
till you blended with him
like a blank stare of the moon

his hooves beat in a heart
where silence now falls
as a gossamery wind
caught my breath
beneath the still...

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"The clock is a useless tool, measuring mortality, 
narrowing vitality. Don't let it tick-tock away the waning moments  
and fine components of your final days." (last stanza of Heather Ober's "Clocks")



A brand new day
Tick...

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Daily Poetry #57, March 26, 2017
Word: World 

Do you see the world that shatters so suddenly?
From just a single thread of fate, everything changes,
With only a few words, everything rearranges. 
Like a puzzle that only...

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Running through the sand
Holding her little hand
Making sandcastles on the beach
Breaking the rules together
Always within her little reach
She cries "Daddy! Don't go!"
Her brown eyes blink away tears
As they still do, after years
She holds her little...

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Just like you

I saw a woman today, just like you.
Dark hair and almond eyes, with high 
Cheek bones from the east; slender with
Gently curving hips.
Just like you.

Walking the cobbled streets at night, in the 
Cool...

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Teach me again not to fear,
beyond there is very near.
Joy once felt is a blink away
It can be found in most every day.
I miss that which is lost,
the pain of grief was the cost,
of the...

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