Short Blank Out Poems

Our musings flow, in stillness slow
At times we just blank out
Moments when heart is not mellow
Our mind begins to doubt

Wherefrom comes thread of thought
That inspirations brought
Which begot what we ought

When heart aglow
Our musings flow

09-November-2021
Quietus ...

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That's all It may be 
but this has meaning
it's an evil clenching
a feeling: fencing
a battle of body and mind
but you're to decide

Something you read 
and you skim and skim
again and again
and your in pain
your stomach hurts
and you go insane
you hold in a laugh 
but not for long
you blank out...
and you walk away...

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Do you look into me as I look into you
Or does the blue blank out what in me is true
Do you see the badge and the gun so real
And never wonder what inside me is the real deal

They say that you walk and talk a special drawl
And always sit with you back up against a wall
But you know at the end of the day 
Cut me and I will bleed away.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Overflowing Pride
Written: by Tom Wright
November 2015

With remains now scattered to forever meander,
Let my pride in his armed service remain swollen.
Now seated in muteness and with mental gander,
Endeavoring to call back years that I deem stolen;

Though Joe’s ashes now rest in some field alone,
And many, perchance, will blank out his name.
He will never become just a disregarded stone, 
But an additional reminder of war’s cruel game;
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