Short Intermission Poems

~Summer is Natures intermission~...

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Life is the epithet of extant intermission...

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There you are
momma says--
and joins him 
off stage....

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Ignoring my flaws…
Icy marrow from red straws
Misery on pause...

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An opal arch entranced on a
Breath of sea wind
Which blew a call
To an intermission curtain....

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Intermission: The Pause



“the sands of time 
are trickling through 
my hour glass”
...

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Performer spies a boy nearly asleep;
  “Look,” he calls out; sitting duck’s
     body shakes with laughter.

4/13/2023...

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there was a bit of a rush
by those quite ready to gush
during intermission
(an awkward position)
Awaiting the last best flush...

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And in the intermission of fading lights,
we play our parts,
knowing not how
reels and trailers of moments loved
are stilled when the ending freezes,
so we leave
to answer the applause of the crowd....

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Intermission :  “Runnaway Train” 

“There’s a little hotel 
called 
The Shady Rest

at the Junction”

(LadyLabyrinth / 2022) 


Fifty Shades of Corden
https://youtu.be/ilTHiqAmuX8
...

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PRELUDE
wet brush
sigh…hush

ACT I
hued dip
and drip

ACT II
small dots
sea spots

INTERMISSION
light flash
waves crash

ACT III
wet stones
oak bones

ACT IV
night rouse
lighthouse

DENOUEMENT
art’s grim
a hymn...

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Meetings are made
For people to gather information to persuade
As you sit on a chair and listen
Sometimes it may be just waiting for intermission 

And you wonder if it’s true
What you are hearing from the speaker too
So do you sit and hope for too
Death by PowerPoint before it’s through.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Up again at that fragile time when the morning eats the night,
memories of you stain like dew on my mental grass,
open window and empty glass.

Leave me easy like the departing pigeons,
drift away like loose perfume on the autumn wind,
the sun doesn’t need an excuse to sleep in,
and this film doesn’t need your intermission....

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Really

What if Everything
That You Thought
Meant Nothing
Meant Something.

Of Course!
And...

Everything
That You Thought
Meant Something
Meant Nothing.

Intermission: You Read 
(Pronounced "Red!")
That Too Fast.

Oh No!!!
What could be worse?

Ignore the Interruptions.

-Gray Squirrel

01/07/2024...

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Racing street lights, hear the siren call.
Way out past the swing bridge, newspaper on your floor.
Bound by intermission so young it's hard to care.
These residents of teardrops stray north to lame somewhere.

Down the steps I've wandered in and out of summer shade,
Staking talk and memory
In the dim light of my dreams....

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He places his hand right here,
below the one of someone else.
That one hovers. He sits.
Is this an intermission?
Perhaps it will fall, slowly, gently;
perhaps it will touch.

The pause continues.
It floats. He waits.
The movie will proceed.
That hand may
continue to descend,
make contact, so very gently.

(23 Sep 2023)...

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dark blue curtain falls
the long act comes to an end
players take their break…

to snack on dreams and slumber
till dawn signals curtain time.


© Sandra M. Haight 2015 
   All Rights Reserved

___________________________
~8th Place~
Contest: One New Tanka
Sponsor: Rick Parise
Judged: 04/07/2015
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The planes were lined up in a queue,
A reminder of something I knew.
     They awaited permission
      Like at intermission 
In theaters outside of the loo.

One by one each one skyward immersed
As the rest inched up closer to first
     But like women in line
     Still not given the sign
There were tempers (and bladders!) to burst....

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I was dazzled - in
a summer spell - did we both
name it as special?

Was it the summer
freedom - the sparkling lake
that summoned magic?

The constant sun sent
a subliminal message
with its rise and fall.

It won’t last, it said,
there's an expiration
date approaching fast.

The short-lived summer
proved a brief, insubstantial
memory making....

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Sitting in a silent movie
Intently staring at the screen
If you watch them closely
You hear exactly what they mean

With moves ever colorful
In this world of black and white
Before intermission
The leading lady breaks down and cries

The leading man had a hand in it
You can read it in the signs
It's really no surprise
It's all right there in black and white...

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Intermission – get on line,
Which mostly seems to crawl,
Just to have the pleasure of
Two minutes in the stall.

Do your business, wash your hands
And climb two flights of stairs,
Then squeeze past people who won’t move
And fix you with their glares.

Broadway shows are special treats
But will be better when
The aisles and women’s restrooms
Aren’t blueprinted by men!...

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I
Humpty Trump-ty scaled a wall
Humpty Trump-ty had a great fall
He blamed it on Dem and others
Dems held off cussing; US family, brothers
Did Humpty Trump-ty think Eden, First Fall?

II
We all ought to learn to take
Intermission, even at election, that break
To center ourselves, anchor with soul
Ponder space, our place, become Whole
Or repeat Humpty Trump-ty's mistake...

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Santa and his team of workers were done.
For a night of rest before the big fun.
Frosty and Santa did go
to take in a Christmas show.
Reindeer magical distilled spirit won.

Popcorn and Slurpee drink they did partake.
At intermission need for bathroom break.
Santa gave a squeal of fright;
hand-dryer was on, a sight;
Frosty hands melting left nubbin snowflake

12/14/2021...

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Falling further into the abyss
Of devastating loneliness
Falling faster than yesterday 
Into the miasma of grief and pain 
Slipping quickly into the soup
Depression has become my noose 
 Finding it easier to retreat inside 
Too hard to deal with all the lies
  Feeling stagnant where I stand 
inspiration is out of grasp 
 Intermission to middle age
And all my skies are darker gray...

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who is hitler..
i dont know,never taught
who is the president...
i dont know, what is that
where do you live..
here
where...
right here
which country...
what is a country
what language you speak.....
language of love
who are you....
a being in love
how are you...
blissful
where do you come from...
from god
who is god....
you are the god
beginning of education
intermission...

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