Shakily Poems - Poems about Shakily

Palimpsest of Love

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Written: August 05, 2025, for contest Marathon Mile 3 Poetry Contest / Sponsor- Mark Toney

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As it rises shakily, the aurora radiates,
 Shore gets ba...

Two Drunkards

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They sat holding bottles
In their hands
And armpits
Pouring mouthful 
Of liquor to fill 
Their hollow stomachs.

 They gazed at each other
As cat and mouse
And spoke a lot of
Inglish with...

The Prismatic Self

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Colossians 3:17-25 KJV Bible
"And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him. [23] And whatsoever ye do, do it...

The Echo returns not 07-03-25

...It’s a cold December afternoon,
Four-thirty, and already dusk is upon us.
We walk side by side, like since forever,
Up the slight incline that takes us to the top of the road,
Shoes scuffling on ...

Soup Disappearance Reason

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My known, soothing landscapes,
grown from my own hues and shapes,
somehow vanquished their view.
Just one more sore blister of news
to aid my staid mind’s gist of confused.
My angered fist pun...

The old fart alter cocker shuffle

...The old fart (alter cocker) shuffle

as one fairly long run on sentence
unwittingly made locally famous 
courtesy residents here at 
Highland Manor Apartments
as first one foot and then the oth...

Focus

...The mirror.

Then stoicism.

Frozen and calm.

Focused.

Then moving shakily.
 
Movements, and jolting.

Then I’m focused again.

Moving.

Calm but ready movements.
 
Knocking on th...

The Ascent

...Misty muted days in Scotland
part before you
making room for your own silence.
Now Beinn Mhòr's summit is under my feet

There was no spectacle,
no one to shake hands with.

Yet as I stood, s...

Desolations Boulevard Ii

...a bar door is ajar, only fading voices
echo into the void, from nowhere...and afar!

Here n there, trash drifts
ghosts in flickering neon. 

Broken, floating, bloated 
dead down eons halls
a ...

The Youth Is Shakily Spiritual

...At Life’s Early Phase,
Your feet on trembling base,
It is Evil that pays
And its music that plays …

At life’s Incipient Stage,
When one isn’t of Age,
Vice A Thousand Kilos weighs
Not what Th...

Haunted House

...Creeping, crawling, braying, bawling
What’s that sound inside my wall?
Scratching, grasping, voices rasping
Through the door I shakily crawl.

Heavy breathing, gasping, writhing
Something grasp...

Anna and the French Kiss

...As I wandered about the lush lawn
In the gazing ball I glimpsed
A breath-taking young woman with a touch of innocence
In her soulful, violet eyes.

I was mesmerized by her beauty
And I had to l...

Visions On a Plane

...It’s a perfect day to ride a plane.
Looking outside from the lounge, the air
feels pristine scrubbed by rain the night before.

Now the plane seems to hold its breath, 
heave a sigh, clutch its ...

Still With Me

...I try not to crumble--
you do not see my
break
downs —
I simply
will not let you—
till somehow,
some way,
in the cracks—
unblinking insect 
eyes peep through.

They are my own eyes
and t...

The Curse of Conquerors Past, Part V

......To prove his point he even opened his shirt,
laid bare his sternum so our blades could stab,
but we were all frozen by what we’d heard,
the worlds just sounded so utterly mad.

He believed he...

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