Long Slipped through your fingers Poems

I used to never want children.
See,
I grew up in a home that housed tornadoes.
where yelling was the norm and the storms would cause chaos every single day.
My father,
Never stayed around.
My tears,
created oceans at my mother’s...

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And the cemetery was so quiet
It had me wanting to make less noise
It had me wanting to breathe soundlessly
For those who did rest there deserved their sleep

But then, I chose to sit on a bench,
To...

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They say that when two people are together for too long, they begin to lose themselves. They start to shift, fade into each other like colors blending on a forgotten canvas, and, in the end,...

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In the quiet folds of January’s chill,  
I wrote a letter, my heart laid bare,  
To Kate, my friend, my kindred spirit still,  
Whose laughter once danced in the air.

You were my...

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The black of the night sky went on forever
The heat from the asphalt was little but strong
I will hear your screams but won’t hold u again… ever
I remember that night and how so much went...

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then:
I swallowed escape
in pastel capsules,
my pockets jingled with regret.
The nights pulsed—
bass, sweat, strangers.
Every weekend was a blackout baptism.
Every Monday, a resurrection I didn’t ask for.

now:
I wake before the alarm.
Feed cats who love me
with a certainty...

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An old man’s Dream

I have this dream – no !, a burning desire
to be with a woman willing to light my fire.
- Not as in the past – placed on a funeral pyre,
there to be...

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Wake up every morning, 
Knowing it will be the same;
Feel an endless longing, 
Inside a rage that can't be tamed.
Haunted in my thinking, 
I let my big chance pass;
And with it all believing, 
That my...

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Entering the belly of the beast, feeling weightless, floating on precision
Is it a dream or a taste of reality
Opening the door to obtain the answers long awaited
Ashes to Ashes, dust to dust saddling up for...

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Goodbye to the echoes of yesterday's past,
To the moments that slipped through my fingers so fast.
To the laughter, the sorrow, the silence, the song,
Each memory is a thread where my soul has belonged.

Goodbye to the...

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Today I missed life in silence, so quietly that no one noticed,
I woke up, but didn't truly arrive, brushed my teeth, got dressed,
I watched the lives of strangers louder than mine, promising myself today would...

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A Bottled Message of Grace


A successfully affluent lawyer began to wander
Through many years  of alcoholism, he fell
 Ten years he wandered around in the wilderness
In a drunken state at the bottom of life’s well

Everything...

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I always remember you when the sun shines.
When the sun shined on your face, and
The sparkles that radiate around you.
That was the magic I remembered.
In those years, we laughed and cried,
When life was good.
I wish...

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In Twilight's embrace, I met a love divine,
A tale of passion and a heart entwined
To the one who set my soul ablaze,
I pen this ode of fading echoes and lost days.

With eyes as stars, you...

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Poe’s Hourglass: A Melancholic Decree

Once upon a midnight dreary,
As sands slip through life’s hourglass, eerie,
I pondered upon my penitent past,
And the regrets that will forever last.

Time, that wicked thief, has stolen away,
Leaving behind fragments of...

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The truth is that we are always children, lost in the labyrinth of time with maps drawn from the dreams of the night,
Children with scraped knees from life's falls, with veins like the roots of...

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You, the ash in my memory,
are a testament to the fire that once consumed us.
We were a blaze, burning bright with passion and possibility.
But now, all that remains are the remnants,
the fragments that have settled...

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She slept in fields of gold
Finally succumbing to the fact that she was alone 
She had demons
They came to taunt her every day 
She had trouble breathing
Yet she had so much to say
Words were a...

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Santas little helpers were busy having fun
Wrapping and labelling the presents ready for the Xmas run

The reindeer had their coats washed smelt of lavender and things
The sleigh had been revarnished was now bright and glowing.

The...

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Dust in the Clouds


Where could he have gone for cover now
Wherever he is
He’s home for the night 
Down the road or further away from the house
Where he’d reside since a child 
Within a place free...

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She's quite an intellect 
A beauty skinned in fair reasoning
Clothed in fumes of rationalism 
Her eyes were made up with eyeliners of 'what's your next plan'...
Her face was polished by the sixth sense
At least, so...

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I miss the colorful past.

I remember how it would blow past me,
encompass my entire being.
Its hues gave me hope,
made my chest swell with glee
when the pure lights danced upon my fingertips.

Until everything changed.

It was when...

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In the twilight of my thoughts, where the shadows of dreams dance,
I wander through the landscape of poetry, lost among the echoes of unwritten verses,
A wanderer in the realms of words, searching for hidden meanings.
I...

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Silently, she lies there listening to sirens off in the distance, 
On the bed where they just recently enjoyed each other’s passion.
The neighborhood dogs, barking at the noise in the night, are taken inside by...

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Now I understand why ghosts rise from the past, shimmering shadows and whispers,
For the past never truly dies; it just hides in dark, deep corners,
Until silence can no longer last and echoes begin to sing...

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