Time On And Off Poems

past breaking point wound up to the limit ~ the hour hand passed a minute

said the second hand to the pendulum ~ who snapped, it’s...

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(There’s a song for this: ‘Confessions’ by Sudan Archives)

I remember it like it was yesterday (it was yesterday).

I arrived on a cool (42°f), blindingly sunny...

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Oh wife of mine
might I meet you
Might we
Might we

She a beautiful woman
with her own atmospheric
precance.
A charming glory of fondness
and glamour

As subtle as rain
and brash as...

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Casting Off The Bow Line

Goodbye
my unwed darling
I’m married
to this dream

Freedom
calling out to me
betrothal thus
redeemed

Bachelorhood
a Siren’s calling
Feted tween
the sails

Truant winds
to act upon
Legends
tell the tale

Setting off
this final...

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Running off with my heart 
By Michelle Morris
05/06/2020

There you go again,
Running off with 
My heart;
I wish you'd
Just give us
A real chance
To make a
New start...

But if...

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This was last Christmas - 39 days ago - doesn’t that seem like ancient history? 

We were in Lisa’s (parent’s) 50th floor flat, in Manhattan....

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steel clouds once more freeze
bare trees comfort each other
ripped trunk holds it together

the sun shields its eyes
its flames dying in Winter
the core feels the biting...

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Why do today what you can put off till tomorrow?

The following extrapolated 
thought thread exercised,
NOT utilized to intimate 
how Fats Domino belied,
and wowed a crowded...

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far off memories
like scattered dreams
lie dormant
waiting 

to come to life
              and haunt
...

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Off kilter

Yup
I sobered up
despite expressing regular
(unleaded and unlettered) 
urge to shtup
expunged courtesy 
system of a down
with shuga (mush)
and everything nice.

	The following crafted some time ago,
when...

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I'm a soldier that fought in a mindless war
A love and hate battle at Mount Gilgamor

We lost sight of the love and friendship once shared
A...

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It's not the coat
It's the switch in me
Or perhaps the eyeliner
Is the key
I'm being told I look nice
From the school gate to the pool
I'm swanning...

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I told myself that you were off limits

I promised that I would not fall

But I lost that battle early on

With each joke and laugh we...

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Within the hurricane report,
Of which I just heard snatches,
A person on the radio said,
“Button down the hatches!”

So many people get things wrong
When idioms are used
And...

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9 Nanos Off
David J Walker

Are you feeling grey or green 
unnamed 
unforeseen 
Missionaries calling daily as the
Positionairies 	of repatriation 
		of stolen identification
		of silent salutation 
confessing...

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