Long Slipped through your fingers Poems

(Lights dim, a single spotlight illuminates Judy Garland, center stage. She wears a faded housecoat, her eyes holding a lifetime of stories. She speaks directly to the audience, her voice a smoky whisper)

Judy: 
They christened...

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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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The heart is a hollow vessel,
aching with the weight of love lost.
In the depths of solitude,
I find myself drowning in memories,
gasping for a breath of your presence.

The bed we once shared
now a cold, desolate wasteland.
The...

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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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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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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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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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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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I dispatched my poem, a suave projectile on a precise trajectory,
Through the vast azure, through the unwritten infinity unfolding its mysteries,
Do not dare to await me, for my path is a float in the boundless,
You...

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The years have drug on
since you died.
I wish I could still remember
the sounds of your voice,
the memories of that died years ago.
You're "fill in" came into my life
seven years before your abrupt exit.
I'm thankful he's...

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Today I lived my life with ghosts
Both living and dead
Your face, their face
Slipped through my fingers and fell to the floor
Hundreds of pictures of you and them
Hundreds of moments and moments and moments
Too numerous and...

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My heart has been broken. My heart has been torn wide open. I can't stop cryin. On the inside i'm diein. With you I felt so right. Now I cry through the night. I watched...

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There is a word now long forgotten
That tasks the good-night air.
It sits tantalizingly upon my tongue
But it finds no babble there.

I had it for a moment.
I caught its scent upon the breeze.
It has slipped between...

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I was falling from the edge of heaven.
In my downward spiral I saw others in the same free fall.
We reached out to one another,
but your loved ones caught you and ripped you from my grasp.
I...

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