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Respites
Respites Poems - Poems about Respites
Fondest Farewell
...Ere break of day and dawns caress Till sunset lays our cares to rest We march and toil to gain what's true With burdens many, respites few And labor on with hope that may In some small measure l......
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Rhan Henry
Categories:
respites,
appreciation, death, eulogy,
Form:
Elegy
Frontal lobe pain
...Traumatic brain injury traumatic headaches intense frontal pain temples are numb quietly sends painful signals throughout my brain sometimes my mind searches for respites as the pai......
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©
Yolanda Nicholsen
Categories:
respites,
allah,
Form:
Quatorzain
Winter Pallette
...Vibrant, sunlit aqua bands streak over grey sky, As smoky purple, broad brush strokes under them lie. Deeply drink this bolder winter palette, before it passes by! Snow clings to the windward si......
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©
M. Renee Taylor
Categories:
respites,
color, life, winter,
Form:
Sonnet
Nothing Red Yet Neither Gray
...NOTHING NEW This is nothing new, Simon says; “hello darkness my ole friend”, She is never our friend, We treat her as a stranger, Every time, two young co-joined oaks, Is this a miracle, ......
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Jim Wiggins
Categories:
respites,
analogy, change, dedication, devotion,
Form:
Free verse
October Fest
...Homes so recently abandoned for Sunday swims and picnics have become indoor respites from the restless chill of change. Secure, still days have vanished, with hazy meadows humming. Fireflies ......
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Carol Mays
Categories:
respites,
autumn, halloween, magic,
Form:
Blank verse
Edits of My Life
...EDITS OF MY LIFE The years scrolled down like pages Lots of memories to highlight Bad times not deleted That wouldn’t feel right. Sometimes the years just flowed Almost perfect from the start Ot......
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Jackie Faasisila
Categories:
respites,
appreciation, feelings, life,
Form:
I do not know?
Cirque Calder Family
...Cirque Calder Family Lonely this My restless paint blobs Absorbing precious air Risking dehydration Moisture deprived patience Waiting atop my platform Resting precariously upon cut wire And tapered......
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©
Odin Roark
Categories:
respites,
art,
Form:
Free verse
Shades of Sunrise
...Shades of Sunrise Dew about to escape Breath exchanging life's elements Another day of deals Running shoes padding rhythms Ready the boardroom battles Clopping horses arriving for oats Tourists to e......
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Odin Roark
Categories:
respites,
war,
Form:
Free verse
The Girl Sitting On a Fence
...The cool wind whistles tonight, the rosy moon and her light dances amid the green trees, but my mind rebels and flees to the girl sitting on a fence with the sunset on her face. An orange carp l......
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João Camilo
Categories:
respites,
allegory, love, nostalgia, girl,
Form:
I do not know?
Signed
...That fabled entities enforce, provoked my nature of endorse. I signed not fate, and signed not flaunting force but of Thee signed ~ my love you . . . as the source! And from resolve, not that ......
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©
Paula Larson
Categories:
respites,
love,
Form:
Rhyme