Short Baited Breath Poems

A cacophony of mockingbirds
Waiting with baited breath
Pacing each other,
In this candy apple sky and
Chasing this morning glory...

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the hammer falls
setting the pendulum in motion
a moment of truth
after a long silence
held together
by a single baited breath



posted on October 18, 2018...

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Roses 
Once fully bloomed,  
Now adorning my room. 
I sit and wait for spring's return 
On baited breath I wait and dote   
Poetics of a rose, 
I must compose. 
Roses...

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The Sun selects her cheeriest face
   when heaviest rains abate

There's nothing worse
   than daylight gray

as with baited breath
   here on Earth
      the Sun's face
         ~ we do await...

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Tic Toc  Tic Toc
Ever so slowly
Tic Toc  Tic Toc
With baited breath
Tic Toc  Tic Toc
The time grows nigh
Tic Toc  Tic Toc
Christmas Eve
Tic Toc  Tic Toc
Is almost here



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on December 26, 2018...

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Where the heart and soul compress
Is a secret garden of helpless bliss
Foreshadowed by any distorted pain
Unrelinquished freedom yet never vain
And I shall await your baited breath 
Today tomorrow until my death
For you are I and I am you 
An interwoven love no one a clue...

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Italia, Italia
I write to you with baited breath
How I long to step in your sand
Sink down to the souls,
Of my ancestors,

Il sole e la sabbia 

Your sand in my feet
Your sun in my eyes
Italia, you are my home.
The one I have yet to reach

Nevertheless, my heart belongs to Italia...

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When I awoke,

I started thinking.

Am I rising?

or Am I sinking?

I live each day, as just a day, and carry on my merry way

But there's something more I am trying to see...

Open my eyes and show it to me!

I shall live each day with baited breath,

Giving in to Life or Death....

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The little girl who once rode my pony
I asked this day to marry me
Her baited breath quivering like happy lips
Over a bowl full of spicy hot chili
Her hazel eyes twitching all aglow
Excitement suited for life’s safari
I imagined this day dressed in genteel
My heart in wonder of standing hairs or bruised heel...

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Bear.....

stone clad shores
welt beneath your warmth
fir lined trees
stand silent in your presence
misted waters raise to greet a vibrant sky in jubilation

as salmon fight ferocious rapids
you
intent
listen and watch
baited breath
silent

your cumbersome claw hovers as a wieghtless mosquito
dancing hithertoo
for that oh so perfect
catch

titanium
spray
avoids your touch
end the salmon's day...

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I wait for you with baited breath
In a drunken haze
I try to envision myself as 
Seductress
Knowing full well
I am a silly woman
Knowing you are undoubtedly
Unaware of my position
In this smoke filled carnival
Across the tinkling of glass to glass
And all the laughter spurred by
Unsteady brazeness
The enormity of the absurdity
Offends me
So I stagger home
Decidedly tired of trying...

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Everyone's waiting

baited breath

fluttering hearts

And shoulders tilted like balances offset




But who sees it coming

Anywhere. No one 

All hear whispers and sees not the mouth

With hands aside and lips held tight

We wait for something uniquely ours




Til the clock stops ticking and

the cuckoo flies its nest

And like strangers we stare

Bewildered and unsure; uncertain

Of all surrounding

Eyes stagnantly defiant

Unmoved, we wait....

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A dream within a dream that calls my name,
And echoes through the night while sleeping still,
That voice that never seems to sound the same,
Yet comes from deep within against my will,
And in that dream, my senses know no shame.

O darker side of love within me dwell,
Possession, obsession familiar traits,
The darkness I have come to know so well,
The baited breath that now investigates,
Unnerving words my dreams cannot repel.





Form: Sicilian Quintains...

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The Rapture of this Life

To recall youth’s control on life

My age was budding as a rose

I played the rogue devoid of strife

Explored the world and love as well

And dallied with the lady Death


My world will be a vacuum soon

Though suffering with baited breath

Death has never been amiss

As I plunge into this deep abyss

My soul has risen from the depths

The rapture of this life is new

Let Your Pen Drip Contest
Sponsored by Broken Wings
May 20 2018...

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A sallow sense of doom escapes
Reminiscent states of baited breath
Seeping into every thread
Of this mortal being 

Slumber still with crooked smiles
Suspended in the strangest ire
Another life there predicts
The tragedy of feeling

Embracing each of those illicit lies
We tell ourselves to sleep at night
Would we see what's left
If no longer dreaming 

Swallows continue to sing their songs
The tide still complicit to her moon 
All remains that once was
Reality in waiting...

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Time has become my greatest enemy
It drags on, an infernal grating on the nerve
Like a broken muffler, dragging around the curve 
While my love and I starve for each other’s company

Until time surrenders, I wait my love with baited breath
Watching time, which I have confounded for going by so slowly
For that hour, that minute, that second, when you will be mine only
When I shall pledge my love to you forever, until death




For: Barbara Gorelick’s contest
Once Upon A “Time”...

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Mortal are us human kind
seeking peace with baited breath.
Immortality imparts the mind
to believe there is no death.
Immortality is really history …
writings from the then times wealth.
Replayed in a similar mode
as history repeats itself.
Each tiny fraction of the puzzle,
is ancient generations text,
leads the way to consider
what right now is needed next …
Each year reaches new horizons,
the past has been addressed -
and we live our life believing,
our time is the very best....

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