Short Aback Poems

No chance.
There is no person like me in the world.
This is the way i am.
I excel.
I like to give
I am religious
Taken aback
Raised in modesty
Happy to bring
Happy to fly...

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I once heard a knock at my door
And there was a crow repeating "No more"
I was so taken aback
I hit him with a rack
And sent him crashing right on the floor!







September,3,2014...

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i have a particular set of skills
popping words like pills
Trying to beautify pain
that slowly kills
suspect myself
when innocent
I will look
I will find me
and i will kill me
eventually...

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Does money buy happiness?  Tough nut to crack.
When people are asked this, they’re taken aback.
But there's one thing I know
as I analyze dough:
unhappiness rises when moolah we lack....

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Taken aback by a moment in time
His full lips pressed against mine
Over and over, drenched in ecstacy
My way was his way
and that made it easy
Say what you will, this trip is to tease me





Adrienne L. Gresham...

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a river meanders under my feet
     I hearken... notice... fallen withered leaves

   aback I move... eyes darting... to and fro
     my thoughts becloud the water down below  




           ~ iambic-jazz pentameter ~...

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My brain bawled
like a hound. 
I was taken aback, 
by the sound. 

I took another bite, 
as they swept past me;
like a 90's reel, 
all my memories. 

Years of forethought;
my assiduous labour made sense. 
I finally felt that day, 
the taste of sundae....

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Normally it is I who astounds
But this time around
It is I taken aback by the grace that abounds
From her crown to the very ground
The radiance was so bright
If she was in my life
3 words  no more nights
Awe shucks
I think I'm awestruck ...

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J ust as I started to fall for you
A nother entered my life.
N o, I was not expecting it to happen there
U nder the Oak where we first met.
A nyone would have been taken aback
R eminiscences of our young love
Y et are you there...in her eyes.


   Born 1/8

Written: 8/9/15...

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Sometimes, people catch me staring
Daring
Sometimes, I'm caring
Often, I'm scaring them.

When I was young, looking out a window
I asked my mum why people looked at me so
She looked at me, taken aback
Sarah, she said, it's because you're looking back!

I guess I just like to look....

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Taken aback by her glow
My heart surges with love

I watch her sleep throughout the night
Yearning for her to wake at suns first light

With pride I watch her play and explore
Throughout the day, learning more and more

I am filled with everlasting love
My daughter
Yes, she is the one...

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I will                                        no way
  go left                             veer right
     try harder                 walk away
                       decide
     turn the page           close the book
   step up                          give up
onward                                 aback...

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With words that attack
I will bring you aback
To explore pains you have hidden 
Resurface memories that you have long  ridden
Venom like a snake bite I'll be leaving my mark
Leaving you alone and lost in the dark
Toxicity in nature questioning  how long it will last
Can you feel the devastation of your past...

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Don't be take aback
By how I chop and hack
It's hideous indeed
How they continue to breed
You won't do it in this lifetime
It's much to difficult to rid yourself of the dirt & grime
No more, don't go on
Sick of it, you yawn
How it ends
Life twists and bends
Folds back to the beginning
Just so you can go on grinning...

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The magic in the sky,
Is a reflection of your eyes. 

As I see them,
I see the glance of an epitome of love. 

I plead with you to conquer my heart in your conquest. 

Such treasure is a desirable venture.
My heart is taken aback, 

Hopefully I shall not sew my little pocket back,
To keep my heart away and close to you......

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Longing to look into your eyes
Outcasted by those who do not believe
Vunerable to your words
Enlighten by your wit and charm

Lost in thoughts of you
On top in the world with joy
Vastly taken aback by your smile
Exceeding all expectations

Lured by your golden hair
Once upon a time
Voluntarily welcoming your every move
Ever lasting light....

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Hit me like a back-handed slap
when off-guard, unprepared and vulnerable.
I could not see it coming!
Lover's sweet words, once honeyed and kind,
now sharp and cruel as thorns, piercing unrelenting,
hacking into the quick, where you know it hurts.
Leaving me shattered, splattered,
stunned and dumped off-track.
I was taken aback, and shafted
by the attack....

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Depiction of the green surface
I see the diamonds
However, taken aback by the stench of death.
I am living today, so death does not succumb the stupidity of horror
In our world.
Why? Can we not see life.
A raining shower
A chord in E major
Strumming to the rain of the umbrella
A large mansion, all alone
I create a friend.
Instead of the stench
A living hero....

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Should I allow my mind to rove
I may be taken aback somehow
remembering forbidden love
induced by guilt I so feel now

reflecting back on cotton threads    
tossing neath the weight of skin
sweat pouring from the brow
absorbed in heaven we in sin

remembering the night of you
cherished no strings that bind
we belonged to us alone 
a secluded world left behind...

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TOMORROW REARS YESTERDAY

When life challenges sway us aback
With horizons of tomorrow seem plague 
We seek answers that never come
While hope fleets us inwardly
And we grief motherly
Forgetting life’s worth definitions 
I open an album of memories instead 
To reprint the direction of the next step
Because challenges are the charcoals
That furnace my will of living. 
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Shocked, taken aback,
I was stood up by my standbys
ever reliable phonies who stood by
and watched. My dear friends quaked
and spluttered excuses from stand-by mode.
How quickly the folksy flock dispersed
to vultures, hanging, waiting 
in stand-by queues, for me to fail, so can step in.
Chameleon onlookers standing by.
Well "Stand By, Folks"
"I'll be back, right with you"....

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What appears to the eye
uncovers the soul
with infinite truths 
of both light and black

Hearts cling too dearly
to their perished flames
Sailing wept waters
that stream slowly aback.

We live and die as one
fruit of prized passions
that bind and blind us
on some grander scale

Questions soar through seasons
Obscure, unanswered
Shielding the secrets
only love should unveil....

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Barking; I harken

Almost darken

Need to be free

Underneath the tree

I wonder what ye will find

As I dig within the tree

I fill my stomach with pebbles

Unfazed and bewildered 

The smells make me shiver

Sounds unbeknownst to me

I hither and wither

Taken aback 

My owner retracts

I make my attack

I harken and say to thee

We will meet underneath the tree.

...

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One step, two steps,
And you're taken aback. 

Three steps, four steps, 
And you're boarding the deck. 

Five ticks of the clock, then six, 
You realize time isn't infinite.

Seven ticks, eight ticks, 
You do, you laugh,  you cry and regret. 

Nine booms, heartbeats, they are synced.
I can hear what you want to say.

Ten days, ten months, ten years,
However long, we'll finally let go....

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So a feint hope seeps through,
Though she won't wait.
And I am taken aback.
Sit, watching the entrancing eyes
Reflect an odd transcient light.

Well now I slowly grow
Feel gradually more old.
Quiet musings, once ventured
I cannot reclaim.
So I look down upon skin.

Let desire becomes licit.
Let avarice reach out.
Consume, enjoy.
All in unseemly yearning.
We are all awful and I'm complicit....

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