Short Elapses Poems

N-ew
O-pen
R-ay
I-s
C-learly
A-bating

A-nother
N-ight
N-egating
E-vening

S-torm
A-s
R-ainy
T-ime
E-lapsesl

Topic: Birthday of Norica Anne Sarte (October 21) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Barely awake on a sun showered knoll,
Elapses does time though no thought of it I've stole.
Am I awake with a fish in my mouth?
Right or wrong I care not what it’s all about.

*If I Was Animal What Would I Be* Contest
Matt Caliri...

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Rows of sprouted thoughts have withered
dying of thirst, drying up in a field of grief,
and I, their neglectful sower, helplessly sit
as time elapses, watching them expire.



November 1, 2021
Liberum Divisa 8 Contest
sponsor:: Gregory R. Barden
Excerpt from 'The Bereft Poet' 1/24/21...

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Time elapses, 
Time begins.
May Time  adds 
some essence, some colors
To the life of the great warrior of nature
Who hopes, fights, torn apart
Still, never lose heart.

Time elapses.
Time begins.
For reasons, we pour words,on
Pages, white as floating clouds
Only to understand the kindness 
Of the words of the highest one
In the darkness, in sorrow, in our despair....

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Listen to poem:

I breathe in your out breath
exhalations spare from death 
mouth to mouth resuscitation 
my existence just a fabrication
   drumming on the optic nerve
   become part visceral part verve
   with electrical impulses sparking
   hand on heart as it's restarting
rebreathing hours they are numbered
time elapses become encumbered 
stop when world begins to spin
I regenerate as I breathe you in


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Oh my brother, permit me please
Release the grip, ease my larynx
I die gasping for breath.
Lincoln, the Abe, sighed and signed 
To restrict not, but to foster brotherhood
Time elapses, but your ingrained grudge not erased
Give me space, enough to breath;
Give me air,
To live, believe and relieve my burden; Of history.
It’s a race to merge our color
Oh my brother, run
Run against Time..
And 
Permit me please....

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