Short Hallways Poems

Ringing of the bells
Vibrate through the cold hallways
Students are restless
Fun is a lost memory
Equations are my rewards...

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Hallways, crowded, loud,
Bustling people, muffled sounds,
There, I stood so still.
I would wait for you right there.
Would you wait for me as well?...

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There are many places this door could lead.
All that's left is to find the key.
So let's forget all the struggles.
I swear this might be it!
You and me, the perfect fit....

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A sharing of words 
An arrival not knowing
What to expect ?
Eager a response
Seek then find...
Walking about her hallways
Determined to spill one's heart 
At all cost, these lines inside this box....

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Pantheon of obtuse glorifications
Hallways confetti bile stymied soldiers smile
'Incomiiiiiiiiing!!!!'
Waves and waves of the nation's slaves
Wave your flag
The few 
The proud
The crippled and the dead...

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teeth marks in this page
some puncture wounds
I write anyway
Loud music from hallways
Annoying kid argument
I write more rapidly
Knowing kids and dogs will find me momentarily

the life of a mom...

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I walk the hallways
Of this place that nurtured youth
Echoes of the past
The sights, sounds and the laughter
Ripe with possibilities



For the Echoes contest 
12/14/15...

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The shadows cast down from above
Blanketing a dying memory.

Remembering the warmth of lost eyes;
The face a fading melody.

Lonely green cement hallways silent,
Yellow paint chipping from the walls....

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Teachers Thoughts

Outrageous
Screams that is so loud
Manifesting in hallways
Time to calm boys, girls down quietly
Gather them in the hallway
One, two, three so loud
Be quiet!

Reynaldo L. Mast
May 18th 2015...

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I got yelled at today
For being worn in the hallways

My owner put me away 
And I was very lonely
 
I was taken out hours later 
And given a lot of attention

I was happy as can be
To be finally out of detention...

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Refracted light is generated
through prisms of thought
as the ideas all tie together
neatly to form one complete
write for others to read
and enjoy as they spend
their waking hours wandering
through the hallways of our minds....

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we travel the hallways
driven by boredom
into this game of cat and mouse
we walk, turn a corner, see you
and make a quick exit
not caring that we look obvious
I just like making you watch me walk away
again and again and forever...

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Musty
Creepy
Dark hallways
My silent room
The moans groaned louder...
Louder...
Louder...
With every tick of the clock

Frustrated
And anxious
I paced around
Impulses crept up slowly...
Slowly...
Slowly...
Until I called her up...

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school tornado drills are the same as they ever were
we line them up in hallways and have them put their heads down
like beetles, like spiders, like shy mice, like embarrassed snakes
it seems weird, but it is exactly like it was sixty years ago...

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Phantoms lurk in
The hallways of
My weak and
Tortured mind

Their shadows loom
Both night and day
No place 
For me to hide

A wrong not mended
Eats away
A cancer unto
My soul

Redemption is lost
Hope that’s gone
For death has
Close the door...

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muffled thoughts
subdued actions
tortured minds
lead to deadly distractions
trouble brewing
deep in my soul
making my way to heaven
but
holding on to hell
a cross roads 
only time will tell
quiet hallways
closed doors
fabled actions
fatal attractions...

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Winter causes woe 
to those who hate snow.
Yet I adore it.

Brings the holidays
with turkeys and sleighs.
Could not deplore it.

Twinkling lights
a beautiful sight
deck the hallways.

Loved ones gather.
I would rather
this was always.



written by Deb Wilson
for contest " Laconic Verse"...

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When I have zero days -
a chill fills the hearth, earth-pillow’s under my moan;
hushed hallways.

Of zero hours -
can’t hear them pray, the silent tone
devours.

The tick -
seconds to own…
sick.

My soul follows the blaze.
Unlatch the pearly gate - milestone
click.

4/8/2022...

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I have to protect my heart
So it doesn't completely fall apart
No one will do it for me
Other than me
Be firm and strong
Instead of being gone
Not sure if I can forgive
That it makes my thoughts dim
The hurt is hard
Like a sad card
Protect myself always
As I walk down the hallways...

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Do you justify your own beliefs,
to force upon your will

Or skip instead the whole charade,
with truth left to distill

Do you wander aimless in the night,
in search of what you’ve lost

As darkened hallways call you back
—regret the only cost

(Villanova Pennsylvania: October, 2019)...

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Listen to poem:

i cross them
in the hallways
on the sidewalks
in the grocery aisles
their eyes furtive
avoiding contact

every time we meet
they’ll quickly say
excuse me
pardon me
anything so they
don’t have to say
good morning
how are you?



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Posted on June 21, 2020...

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Agile
Black
Cats
Dart
Eerily
From
Gloomy
Hallways
Initiating
Jolts -
Killing
Lackadaisical
Moods
Notably
Of
People
Quintessentially
Ruffled -
Spooking
Them
Unduly -
Verifying
Wanted
Xenial 
Yearnings
ZAPPED


Nov. 9, 2021
for William Kekaula's Alphabet Soup Poetry Contest...

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An icicle melts as it forms,
drip by drop,
slowly presiding over time.
Ready to pierce my eye,
cautiously alert to cut my skin.
To throw, to thwart me
into the lake of fire.
To impede my dream
into depression, oblivion.

Slowly presiding over time.
Slowly reminding me of
Life's austere and long hallways....

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Scouring cerebral rooms.
Lost in the hallways of feeling.
Locked in emotional tombs.
Each key now revealing..
A door behind a door.
A mansion in my mind.
Apathetic drive carpeted floor.
Blue prints undefined.
Eclectic paintings hang.
Crooked on walls of peeling plaster.
Then my door bell rang.
Welcome to my mental disaster....

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We dead shall walk the hallways unopposed, 
and lend an air of mystery to paint 
and plaster peeling, full exposed 
when daylight turns to dusk; but there's a faint 
uneasiness as new ones gather, pested 
to hear our ghostly whisperings and may 
have second thoughts, their courage tested; 
were we not bolder occupants than they?...

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