Short Lapse Poems

A momentary
lapse of attention results
in a sudden loss....

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Weeks later


Expectations diminish



12/09/11
5:18pm...

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A mean word
 if heard
  can destroy

Let it lapse ~
 a kind one
  employ...

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Gentle reminder, a memory lapse ~
Encouraging us to dwell in the gaps
 
19-November-2022...

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Just how glass cracks
after a lapse,
one should make a gaffe
to smash the mirror of arrogance....

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Lapse

When efficiency and effort lapse
Law and Peace fatally collapse!


JM

20th January 2014...

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does a memory lapse disconcert us
if it does, is not memory an attribute
to which our identity does as yet cling...

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Are we two lines in a frame?
Let lapse of our sin and shame.
Strikes on the clay are to blame....

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Beloved moon a kiss now
       before night turns to dawn
      kiss me in this short second
    let's live the lapse of this world...

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Wheels of time turning needles;
Worries of day twisting on spindle 
Days passed boxing bundle
Night sparkles with hopes and kindles...

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 satin skies showed new Sol
 soft summer sun, now setting
 streams of stars do smile


               7/20/2023


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The ability to imagine
isn't a critical thinking lapse

Rather, a strengthening of the mind
and a willingness to say perhaps...

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Blue
A color
A feeling
A desperate long for a being
A lapse of time
A curse of mine
Absent light
The moon new
The sky at night 
Shut my eyes
You...

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A loathsome lecher lurks along the long,
Lightless ledge, looking to lure a lost lamb
To lewd license, liquor, and lowlife lurch—
To the lesser lying league and layer....

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L---leaving lapse loess lurching


I---imprudence indiscretions


P---pulling out passage plunges

Slip?


Written words by James Edward Lee Sr. 2018 ©
11/07/18...

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Our every imperfection
The errors made
Each lapse, a rough
And uncut gem
Perfected by some
Unknown blade

11.6.2021
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Contest: Bite size poem No.6...

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It's time to celebrate a New Year
with an old tradition and much cheer,
so while the ball is dropping
the champagne will be popping...
Here's to headaches and actions unclear!...

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There once was a cat, a pretty young maid
Who was deathly afraid of panty raids --
   She had a breathing lapse
   Then completely collapsed --
The cat coroner found out she'd been spayed...

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My son Scottie is experimenting with
Time-lapse photography results are he's a whiz
Working out so cool
A flower going by the rules
Opening up in real time like magic it is...

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Taking Naps Caused a Mishaps

What I was told about taking knaps,
They may cause a mental mishaps,
Shortness of mind,
After left behind,
Which will be of time a long lapse.

Jim Horn
....

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Death don’t scare me, in fact I look forward to it
I’ll fall into some amazing lapse
Then I’ll ascend into the heavens
And then I’ll see the fat little angels
Smiling at me, telling me to come on...

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B-eautiful
E-yes
V-aliantly
E-vade
R-espiratory
L-apse
Y-ielding

J-oy
U-nder
L-ovely
L-ung's
A-dvanced
R-eadiness

Topic: Birthday of Beverly M. Jullar (April 05) 
Form: Vertical Monocrostic...

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Some folks have memory lapse now and then

   Seems the prez has 'em again and again

      'Tis more than we can endure

         So may I propose a cure

            Less ice cream and a dose of Prevagen...

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over these dry leaves
of vanished years
where destiny has planted me a
garden
and fate devoured
like a lover` s gaze;

over these dry leaves 
i stand
i stand
i stand
.......as one who lays all trust aside....

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Wandering through changes each day
Lifting my head up, as I can
Sometimes there's so much to say
Or not when silence grasps
Feeling kind of shocked
Time does not lapse
Carries on
As I walk

Heidi Sands

4/3/20...

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