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Parachutes Gates and Mouths

Parachutes, Gates, and Mouth’s
Written: by Miracle Man
2006/2021

A parachute makes man light as a feather, 
Just a sudden jerk and then you float.
It works the same regardless of weather,
but failing to open there’s no antidote.

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.”
Frank Zappa


In truth, both are not found to be

Categories: parachutes, truth,
Form: Lyric

White Parachutes

This past summer I had taken some time to begin reading a newly acquired book, and went to a nearby park to do so.  Sometime thereafter I took a break from reading and noticed a gray mini-van pull into the parking lot.  In short order, a young mother and her two young children,

Categories: parachutes, appreciation, nostalgia, remember,
Form: Narrative

Parachutes

Wet leaves glisten 
     on the bough.

Crystal dewdrops drip 
     down, fall slo-mo,

each parachuting
     on a tiny halo

to kiss the damp 
     grass below!

Categories: parachutes, beautiful,
Form: Tail-rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Parachutes

First leaves of autumn.
Slow parachutes this morning
almost at the curb.


Donal Mahoney

Categories: parachutes, autumn,
Form: Haiku

No Parachutes

Two men left the airplane without parachutes
One was a young student not too bright and out for fun
He had sport sneakers on when he departed
The old guy wore heavy worker boots as a rule
Took one small step at a time when flying
In fear that he might fall
He was coming down with a cold or flu

Categories: parachutes, adventure, confusion, image, life,
Form: Free verse

Parachutes

floating on 
a dying whisper
blowing slowly
upon the breath
one flower 
blossoming colour
of sunshine

one blow
cotton like 
parachutes  
on a gentle breeze
kissing upon 
a wish whispered
keep guessing
beautiful
within one's mind

as the last 
one blows
watching them 
floating out 
of vision
love me not

flirting dreams
on the breeze landed
in love
a fairytale
you  do
love me 
love me not

Categories: parachutes, romance,
Form: Free verse

Parachutes

I sit before my snow framed window, 
watching thick flakes drop from the dark sky,
parachutes that disappear into the calm white sea below me.

The light is fading framing a reflection,
I see myself glazing, still like a photograph,
inside, I drift back to the watery place by the Black Sea.

I can’t remember that moment in detail,
when I

Categories: parachutes, love, memory, winter, snow,
Form: Verse

Parachutes

A family picnic outing on the lawn,
Granny’s hair like dandelions in sun – 
silver filaments, a childhood toy.
A puff of breath, the seedlets fly
the way the morning’s breeze has gone.
Memories wind-borne on the sky.

Categories: parachutes, family
Form: Verse

No Parachutes,Safety Nets,Souls,Or Hope

Love is whispered and not forgotten
If this be so
I deaf to soft lipped invitations seek no thought of hope
I of no past collection hold thought
To forget is gruesome and beautiful

My eyes, swift allies in my war of world tell no lies

Silent in the 4 walled chalkboard blue
Shakespearean mad men twist their tongues with words of

Categories: parachutes, adventure, angst, art, confusion,
Form: Dramatic Monologue

Parachutes and Pillboxes

Parachutes and pillboxes clamor,
such a colorful rumba of
mood elevators locked in time-
released buffers. They can't wait,

they can't wait for the future,
with stanisodium fluoride
and beta blockers, humming
walls of dazzle in high-def,

explosions and collisions in rich
clarity with those smug ties
and flirty personas. Clearly
those farmers didn't want

freedom enough if they weren't
happy being blown into
confetti in a grand unveiling
of

Categories: parachutes, angst, war
Form: Free verse

Haiku: Parachutes of Wings

Butterflies land on
Bunches of flowers with their
Parachutes of wings

Categories: parachutes, nature,
Form: Haiku

Rainbow Parachutes

noontime rain gladdens the heart so,

     leaves sway, glisten upon the bough,

          as moist crystals drip and fall slo-mo,

               each parachuting on a mini-rainbow,

Categories: parachutes, happiness, hope, nature,
Form: Rhyme

An Absence of Parachutes

Your eyes have gone empty as earthenware.

There are no more tragedies, no selections,
no decrees. There are just faces numbed
or edged to laughter: old stories of expediency,
slow dancing to mechanical music.

All things turn ocher and eggshell.

It is hard to believe in anything, yet
we persist, honoring stones
crumbling to the hug of weeds.

We are akimbo in the night,

Categories: parachutes, angst, confusion, death, introspection,
Form: Free verse