Nanosecond Poems | Examples

Behind the scenes in psychotherapy

a degree and he knows it all
summarizes me in a nanosecond
has me all figured out

simplified into a likely story
for someone else perhaps
but no sir, not for me

casually randomizing
careless comments tossed
into a common salad

the maestro takes words
and plays them back askew
creating his own new melody

with all his pomp and arrogance
he is the type that gives
the profession a bad name


AP: 3rd place 2025, Honorable Mention 2025

One Minute Man revised

A bouquet of blossoms
The calmness in the forest
I felt his one eye willy against my ribs
In a nanosecond, he became a minute man
Was this a midwinter dream?
I smile and then I kiss his neck,
he whispers, honey,
I hope that you are not upset,
Darn!  I was so ashamed of this
One minute man,
Viagra is all I can truly say to him
Old men, old men

Birds of Feathers

What the birds know today is that I am not there
Funny as it may seem, those birds and I have something in common
We are always looking for something,
What puzzles me the most is when I put out food
They appear from nowhere, chirping and calling for others
To come to share the food. 
They are fascinating creatures,
I think I have hyped them too much by feeding them a lot of sugar:
However, I loved how they picked the leftovers. 
And in a nanosecond, the food was gone.
I am back in the cold once again,
I truly missed those birds outside my door,
They do not need to migrate south.
And most of all they don’t have to select 
Or regret voting for a president
In their defense, each of them appears to be a leader.
Who leads Birds of a Feather?

PRETENDING WE KNOW -

I'm looking back in time, it
doesn't strike me straight away
I'm too intrigued to see  those
faces once again.  A small group
of six apparently happy relatives
posed on a hilltop somewhere
with aerial view of fields behind.
With all the knowledge I have
it occurs to me that these smiles
they wear were really masks
and beneath were the concerns
of holding their individual
loves and lives together.
Each of us are doing that each
and every second of a day.
Four of the six have passed on:
But not before their bodies
were aged and weakened
simply by being alive.
It is a strange path we tread
from oblivion to oblivion,
and along the way we might
be captured in some nanosecond
of time in a photograph, where
we bravely put on a smile
as if we are comfortable and
know what it is actually all about.

Have a happy new year folks.

 

© Griffonner 2024

Shape-Shifting Soul

Contest Line of Inquiry:
"Here I am in human form, but it was not always quite so;
 Earth is not the only planet  I’ve been to through past life 
 regressions, I definitely know."

From the white light of death
as we take our last breath,
our human Souls emerge.
By nanosecond surge,
transformed, like butterflies-
with mystic wings, each flies
back home into God's Light-
shape-shifting on our flight.
From Earth's cocoon, we lift
to our awarded gift.

Be it Eternal Life,
free from mortal strife;
or made to live again-
in flesh once more, and then-
shape-shifting, growing whole
through purity of Soul.
Soon feel we've lived before
upon a distant shore.
Therefore, Soul journeys go
how God directs their flow.

Clear Connection

I'll pick up the phone on the first or second ring
If I know it's you who's calling I'll drop everything
I love to hear your voice when we're on the telephone 
It's almost like you're singing, you've such a pleasing tone

You can call me anytime you're lonesome or you're not
I'll be there to answer right there on the spot
I wouldn't keep me waiting a nanosecond more 
I want to have each moment that you would have in store

Even if I have to put a coat over my head
I wouldn't miss your call, the thought of it I dread
Call me in the morning, afternoon, or night
I'll make sure I'm ready, to hear you's a delight

Welcome To a Merry Care

All for one and one for all
The spread of cultured hands suffices
Like manna in the wilderness
No one is cloaked in greediness
The rising up of voices unheard
Like dust molded to life renewed
Who knew of particles power?
The nanosecond of changes
Like an idea whose time has come,
One for all and all for one.

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The Grand Scheme

in the grand scheme of things
Nothing is as it seems, 
nothing will stand 
the test of time,
the eons will grind, 
all will be worn to dust 
as nothing is forever 

forgotten in rust 
in the grand scheme of things 
we are nothing but a nanosecond 
sparks of life easy blown out like a candle 

in a vast vacuum of night 
the regions of forever 
and no one n nothing ever lasts 

nothing is as it is or deemed, 
seeing nothing in the coming void 
nothing will stand the test of eternity 

eons will grind all to carbon at last
the thing that stars of made

watching it drift through 
…these deathless hands!

Chess What the Universe Knew and Did

I
The inventor of chess was asked by his King in India: what payment will u take for this game?

Only a single grain of wheat doubling for the next square, and the next ... Until the last square in the chessboard. The king lost his throne and sanity. The 64 square earned Chess Inventor 18.5 quintillion grains of wheat.  So what?

II
Today's production of wheat has not reached 18.5 quintillion grains annually. We are 2,000 times shy of that wealth earned in wheat by Chess Inventor 

III
The Inflation theory of the universe wants us to believe it expanded exponentially, too, in the first nanosecond after the big bang (but to 90 times the speck that apparently got Bang!D)

Surrender and Breathe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYZC-VbcpRg
Surrender and bond your inner self, breathe deeply 
accept the moment that has been given to you and share 
the inner circles of your positive energy, be yourself  

Immerse your thoughts in beautiful light and re-incarnate 
with your present concept, it is there to teach you how 
to live freely, without ties to earth dramas and misshapes 

Repeat your mantra " I am potential " and enter into bliss 
flower your thoughts and vine them to your corporal light 
breathe in the oneness of the Universe and breathe out 

Water your senses with peaceful rhythm and like water 
move gently into the waves of contentment one breath 
at a time...  Time erased, you are a nanosecond away,    

Surrender, bond , surrender , live, surrender, breathe

The Hum of the Universe

The gravitational waves
Of massive spacial events
Hum across this vast universe,
Warping the space and time
Between us.

As black holes engulf black holes
And galaxies are born
Then die,
We in a nanosecond of time
Discover one another.


For: A STRAND (1056) Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Brian Strand
January 20, 2022

Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope -
Turn the tube.
Brilliant shapes
In fluorescent colors
Shout joy,
Happiness.
Then, in only 
A nanosecond
Everything changes.
A slight touch, 
A twist of fate, and
All shatters into
Chaos,
Confusion.
Bright shards of
Red glass, green, yellow,
Blue – breaking -
Flying apart -
Smashing into each other -
Nothing in order.
Life in pieces.
But wait –
Try again.
Another turn,
A flick of the wrist, 
A change of light,
New emotions blaze
Into joyful patterns.
How long
Will they last?
Only the kaleidoscope
Has the answer.

The Designers Eye

The Designer’s Eye

I look up to the blue expanses,
Needing to see just a trace of my designer,
Just an eyelash, or the tiniest of a skin flake.  
Maybe just the descent of a strange leaf,
So that, inside my insecure soul,
There is some tincture of truth,
I can hold on to;
Just a nanosecond of illuminating light,
Of something beyond nature and,
Its troubling temper tantrums.
I know there is an invisible curtain before us.
I can feel the staring eyes of the dead.

They sit in the Big Theater,
Watching the Big Play unfold endlessly, 
And I am on the stage of time,
Still reciting the soliloquies of fear.

But over there,
Lurking behind the bannisters,
Look!
I see the Beast.
He has shot Lincoln.
Now the designer has shown me his eye.

This Time Now

As we are mortal
and maybe even
if we weren’t, we
travel through
this one way
dimension
nanosecond
by
nanosecond
until we
aren’t anymore.
Although you don’t
have to be Einstein or
traveling at lightspeed
to know time is relative
sometimes going so slowly
other times passing too fast.
But I’d give one of my back
molars (which itself is feeling
the effects of time) for a time out.
Not the stand in the corner kind which
our parents gave us unruly children, but 
rather a basketball type of time out where 
everything stops and coach can draw up 
the buzzer beater that will win the game.
But that’s all fantasy and excuse me if I
get a bit Buddhist, but we all know that
the past is gone and the future yet to come 
we live in the now.
Enjoy.
.

I Am Lost

I AM LOST          
          
     Once void, all around emptiness where in vacuum Big Bang exploded.
     Vibrant Cosmos created in nanosecond, space and time started journey.
      Trivial ordinary star Sun, tiny Earth, trifling human race: Where am I?
    
   01/08/20
                Second Place

  'Threesome' Contest by Silent One

• Short Nanosecond Poems
• Famous Nanosecond Poems
• Best Nanosecond Poems
• Read Nanosecond Poems
• Long Nanosecond Poems
• Nanosecond Quotes