Short Bated Breath Poems
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A cacophony of mockingbirds
Waiting with bated breath
Pacing each other,
In this candy apple sky and
Chasing this morning glory
You make simple things
become crudely entangled;
Knotting up a string;
Strangled thoughts and emotions
constricted to bated breath.
Harsh words
A bated breath
A pregnant silence was how we left
Scorned feelings
Once love; amiss
You couldn’t keep me
Not even with a kiss
I waited with bated breath.
All it took was one unsaid word.
No hello and no goodbye.
Wordku: 5-7-5 words
AP: Honorable Mention 2026
The house has been cleaned,
the hearts have been washed.
With oil, the lamps are replete;
all await with bated breath,
the bridegroom to greet.
the hammer falls
setting the pendulum in motion
a moment of truth
after a long silence
held together
by a single bated breath
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
how gloweth thine eye
in this sadness of sunlight…
where trees cease shaking
woodland rests with bated breath
wryly squirrels search for home
© Harry J Horsman 2023
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thunderstorm approaching
coffee cup in hand
with bated breath
i await the sign
you are there
within my reach
and all will be alright
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Tonight i write in praise of giggles
those i push with bated breath
and never come too soon
those chuckles
between teetth
that smile in eyes
and joy filled tears
are born
between the feral
and the ethereal
lust and love
playoff
soul watches
with bated breath
but the fact there's a game on
signals it's yet work in progress
11-December-2022
Roses
Once fully bloomed,
Now adorning my room.
I sit and wait for spring's return
On bated breath I wait and dote
Poetics of a rose,
I must compose.
Roses
The Sun selects her cheeriest face
when heaviest rains abate
There's nothing worse
than daylight gray
as with bated breath
here on Earth
the Sun's face
~ we do await
Tic Toc Tic Toc
Ever so slowly
Tic Toc Tic Toc
With bated 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
we cannot lie
our heart searches
for that magical scent
elixir divine sublime
for soul’s ascent
with bated breath
we wait to be touched
by love’s wafting magnetism
that colours of the rainbow
set aflame body prism
While King Kong had the Empire State building,
Kitty Kat reigned over the train yards
striking terror in everyone crossing her path.
With bated breath, we hoped and waited
for some superhero to appear and save the day.
AP: 3rd place 2026
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 bated breath
Today tomorrow until my death
For you are I and I am you
An interwoven love no one a clue
Gripped inside her studious look,
look at the razors in her eyes.
Eyes that speak determination,
determination holds you gripped.
Gripped with all of her quiet fire,
fire that feels fiendishly catching.
Catching left you with bated breath,
breath that’s totally transfixed gripped.
Italia, Italia
I write to you with bated 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
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 bated breath,
Giving in to Life or Death.
while the room spins around
dreams and wishes swoosh
in tandem in a mega swirl
one look and delirious delight
releases chaotic madness
a sea of sensations in motion
a swarm of tangents and explosives
perhaps concealed under bated breath
but the eyes never lie ~
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
The little girl who once rode my pony
I asked this day to marry me
Her bated 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
Folks wait with bated breath 'cross the nation,
For Phil's insightful prognostication.
What will his prediction be?
We will have to wait and see,
After Phil wakes from his hibernation!
Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) 2014 All Rights Reserved
(Not for contest)
I miss those days
God ..I remember those days .good old days..when we used to pen letters ..fold it carefully...in an envelope.oh!!..a tups of cologne and mail it...waiting 2 ..maybe 3 days for the response..with bated breath..then nuff skin teet..and heart a beat when you see a letter from her..sigh..I miss those days.....
Sigh
it's raining so fun and games are on pause
the outdoors hydrate and regenerate
meanwhile we await with bated breath
the return of sunshine in all its glory
we live up high in proximity to God
where we commune with Nature
always grateful to enjoy a slice of heaven
right outside our door ~
AP: 2nd place 2025, 3rd place 2025
summer beautiful, brown breath
summer brave, beautiful breath
Sweaty, strong summer
Sad, small summer beautiful, brown breath
Beautiful, Beautiful brown, yellow, orange, summer
strong summer balmy, bated breath
Sweaty bated breath
Beautiful summer
8/6/20
written words by James Edward Lee Sr. ©2020