Short Imperceptible Poems

a faerie flutter
almost imperceptible
delights my soul self...

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A cloudless spring sky
Sends an imperceptible
Morning rain shower...

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Imperceptible
as snow melting to spring sun
time and weather shift...

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The heart of a matter
     its crux, its soul

   Its beat imperceptible
     ~ as your love I stole...

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Rock turtles in blue waters . . .their crawl so slow it’s imperceptible


2/20/2016  Based on a beautiful picture of a New England shoreline....

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Be especially careful, you who would teach
  Observe well the depth of your reach

A moment's slip, imperceptible, on your part
  Rends the fabric of a pupil's heart...

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I 
Only
Want you to
Read 
My poetry
Perceive the voice
Echo from
Each page.
Spare me
From all 
Open Mic nights
Readings,
Let’s remain
Forever
Imperceptible
Friends....

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candy apple lips
thick and wet
imperceptible saliva dripping off the side
in subtle ways
moist and Rubenesque
I cannot tear my eyes away
wondering how she looks this luscious?...

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If I could…
I’d explore these woods
on a summer afternoon.

Where does this imperceptible path lead,
through valley, glen, or gully?

If I could…
I’d explore these woods,
but I have other paths to follow....

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Her touch leaves no evidence
of her passing
nor does the imperceptible tremor
of her tensioned ease
alert her prey.
Too late they feel
her closing breath
seizing theirs.


©8/30/2019

Silence Poetry Contest
Silent One - sponsor...

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FOG   HORN

Almost imperceptible on the coast,
Pandora, lost but persistent,
Calls across the far river docks
For lock to open ashore

Calls like a brother ghost,
Far across time’s river sent
To unlock my memory box
And open its half-lost store....

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imperceptible
    and
      invisible
this fidelity,
delicate
and desirable,
impartial
      without
      blemish:
often
    so ethereal
..fleeting
yet
   enthralls
our notions
of
perfection,
so often
disappers
with a 
whimper...

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Eider down comfort comfortably comforting 
Distant imperceptible traumas unimaginable. 
Feather pillow softly laid my head 
As under a Mother Hen's wing 
Unperturbable 
But cold wood floors shock my soulless sole 
From the foot of the bed. 
Unconsolable....

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Sahasrara & Ajna in tandem
Ignite the head ovoid
Anahata spacial ever purring
All within Sushumna overjoyed

Moment to moment we cognise
Imperceptible shifts within
We alone know the throb we feel
Ecstatic renewal of bliss ignition 

03-September-2020...

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In the ways of life,
I'm the road,
The step
and the dust...
I'm also a pilgrim light
  and I'm an
imperceptible shadow...
I am a constant presence
in this destined course...
I'm a mature man,
but for God I'm still
child...
Eternal apprentice
in life... !...

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A quiver
  a nod
the slightest toss
  of her hair

A purse of her lips
  a shy crease
playing at the edges of
  her sealed mouth

A gesture
  imperceptible
a moment's tilting
  of a finger

The most
  indeterminate
of steps
  forward now  

Stop
heart
  await...

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letting go of
the need to let go
nothing we need to do
in surrendered stillness slow

thin veil within
to eye imperceptible
which needs to fall aside
if we are to make God visible

non-doer doing
an action by a doer
inner silence yet coloured
until we completely disappear 

28-August-2020...

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the silence shatters
in the back alleys of your mind,
a cat springs from a fire escape.
hitting the ground, she stumbles
near imperceptible,
revealing the last vestiges of kittenhood.
recovering herself, 
she slinks unnoticed through a doorway
shimmering, it disappears behind her;
the last way out....

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To trust in what I
do not understand

The way flowers follow
with imperceptible grace
the sequence of day,

to bend at nightfall
like wheat in the wind,

to let go
like seedpods
anticipating spring,

to be still
with the softness
of my body, breathing,

is to be, perhaps, 
like prayer

alive
and vital in the air....

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The invisible flicker
of flame in the wicker
though there is no cause
for the pulse to pause
is cognised in aloneness 
whilst in silence & stillness 

We do not wish to hide
yet cannot confide
as the happening too subtle
translation impossible
shift being inner 
outer mundanity dimmer

16-September-2020...

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Psychotic pain rips her flesh from bone
Leaving her ragged skeletal shadow brutally
Assaulted by maniacal horror imperceptible to the mentally normal
Temptation conquers her and she welcomes serene death with poisonous applause, gas her invisible
Hangman’s noose-forever silencing her...

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My marmalade eyes
are viscous
lids sticky
gummed up
glazed over
the world is
sometimes imperceptible
sometimes impenetrable
nebulous
opaque in appearance
incomprehensible
indeterminate
indiscernible
enigmatic world
why is your
complexion so
indistinct
today?


(click on the picture to buy my poetry book!)...

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Obscure Bloom; the Eclipse

Obscuring the moon
A veil of rose and ashes
Fades and overwhelms

Memory of light
Lost imprint of blossom bloom
Imperceptible 

Through black spaces move
Things unearthly and unseen
Stirring the shadows

Earth falls to silence
Darkness comprehending not
What may yet become

by Gail...

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a subtle, almost imperceptible vibrational distraction
became an irritant causing consciousness contraction 
taking a step back, we allowed the flame to die out
contemplating on why we had so allowed it to grout
as such, the seeming nonevent, though a flicker in time
redoubled our resolve to entwine with the divine sublime

16-May-2023...

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Very gently...
You eased yourself out of my life
There was no drama
No cataclysmic event
To mark the passage
Just an imperceptible retreat
Like the slow ebb of a tide
You left behind
The dry sand of my heart
And one solitary figure…
Looking longingly at the sea
Wondering...wondering
How did your love 
Ever get that far away
From me?

Eileen Manassian Ghali...

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