Short Faintest Poems

faintest voices heard
divine talk between angels
laughter in shadows...

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faintest trace
of optimism
in the air



posted on September 29, 2018...

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In the quiet of the night
even the faintest sound
can become quite maddening....

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die with the faintest flicker of light ~ born without single breath for life 


By
David Kavanagh...

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Even the faintest of love's perception gives life it's meaning, hope and direction.

October 20,2015...

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Least I can be, is
Even just the faintest light
In this so dark world;
To prove one’s presence alone
Can cast away all shadows....

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As the candle slowly burns until the faintest light flickers to the end, 

so does 

the human soul cease to exist. 


6/30/2017...

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Ballerina shoes pink
Miss majestic magenta
Fresh as a rose red
Fairest faintest nude
Paris, New York pleasure
Lipstick colors in red, purple, beige, pink and brown...

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Traffic jam defines
divine and mundane.

Its peak hours mix
the sacred and profane.

And with awe we see 
as a miracle,

as beatific vision
and spectacle,

the faintest trace of 
a lone parking space!...

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The summer air hangs still.
Hawk and whippoorwill
Wing mournful down the graying skies…
Hearken to their cries!

And then the faintest breeze
Murmurs in the trees…
And at the Lonesome Place
Spirits sigh in space....

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If ever
You wonder
Do you ever wonder this

The answer
To the question 
Inside the butterfly kiss 

You feel
The faintest flutter 
Blink too hard and you will miss

The magic
That is uttered 
Inside the butterfly kiss...

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Often to speak yet seldom to listen
Conveys the impression of lacking
Wisdom? Better to pause' between
The bouts, for the faintest whisper
She never shouts' incline your ear
Prepare your mind, refresh your soul
With her meats and wine.'...

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Beneath the veil of night
Restless limbs lay tangled
Amongst her linens and her doubts
Sun kissed skin, remembering him
Her fingers gently trace
The faintest whisper of his touch
Soft upon her breath, his name
She must learn to say goodbye...

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inside
a frozen
minute
you wait

the door
ajar
as if
to capture
the faintest
echo of
footfall

the mirror
scrutinizing
that empty 
space
beside you
on the couch

my reflection
endlessly
snared
in mute
counterpoint

03/22/18...

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He thinks his daddy is a superhero;
The ultimate action figure and model negro.
Who flies by night into his faintest dreams
And recedes with shadows as the day seems
To close with toy box lids.  Asleep he goes
Hoping for daddy like legendary heroes....

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Mere husks remain,
unnaturally strewn,
lying by the dozens
on a red-soaked field.
Once stoutly girded,
masking fiery resolve
underneath unassuming
exteriors, naught but the
faintest hints linger,
sad siren calls to
former greatness.
...

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The consumate sleuth Sherlock Holmes
Hardly lacking the wit chromosomes
With the faintest of clues
To bemuse and confuse
Cracked crimes in the Welsh catacombs



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Submitted on January 27, 2019 for contest LIMERICK 3 sponsored by JOSEPH MAY  -  RANKED 2ND...

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A kaleidoscope of paper-thin wings,
as fragile as spun sugar,
weave a serpentine dance
along the weathered, rugged stone steps.

Swallowed up by the blinding light
in their wake, each wingbeat leaves
only the faintest ripple—barely a sigh—
that once painted their fleeting existence.
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Through darkened bar windows
Two meet without sight
Two ashamed to want
Two afraid to need
Two alone together
Changing words to hide
the face buried deep inside
A smile for the lamest joke
faintest fingertip touch
send shivers from neck to wrist
and moistened lips
beg the highest risk...

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Shall find some space upon this yard
It is just a matter of days, 
The inmates here will give no room
For they are stubborn in their ways.

Fit in here is a task I must
Though I have not the faintest clue, 
Of how on earth could that be done
But do know I am stubborn too.
        ***********...

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Men prepare for the road ahead
And I implore you be not late,
You need carry no belongings 
Save the vagaries of your fate.

Know when you take this journey long
You would traverse beyond the blue,
Walk the path your precursors took
Though they had not the faintest clue.
         ***********...

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Gnarled traffic defines the divine and the mundane
     and its peak hours mix the sacred with the profane:

                the slightest, faintest trace
                  of a vacant parking space

        is seen as nothing less than a great miracle,
              beatific vision, ecstatic spectacle!...

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There are places within the shadows,
That rain cannot touch,
Where sound, save but for the faintest of mumbles,
Knows not either but the fractured
Affliction of itself turned inwards.
These are the knots that wrap their rage
Around distant memory,
A place where there,
But in God,
Heavy thunder dwells....

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losing one's way through 
the thickest thickets

   and thorniest bushes in the 
   darkest jungles

      only whets the urgent urge 
      of the roving soul

         to be able to blaze even the 
         faintest of trails

            that hopefully leads back 
            to a jubilant heart!...

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Traffic jams 
define the divine 
and the mundane.

Their long peak 
hours mix the sacred 
and the profane.

And with grateful awe, we see as a miracle,
as a beatific vision and spectacle,

the slightest hint 
there is, the elusive 
faintest trace 

of this city's 
rarest gem: a vacant 
parking space!...

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