Short Lapsed Poems

What ought to have lapsed 
A decade ago sluggishly pops;
Antagonist’s claws now thaw 
And give way to buoyant hopes. 
...

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Beneath,
Moving higher,
Upset and distressed now,
Lapsed into disturbed sleep or grief,
Afflicted with uneasiness for you....

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I'm living in Oklahoma
That green country fresh aroma
Life sweet as could be
All fine and dandy
Till I lapsed into an okra coma...

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Sipped one Pabst
  Sobriety lapsed
Resolve collapsed

  Resurrected
His checkered past
  His fiancé aghast
Once more, outcast...

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Searching, but never found
Chained and bound
Held back 
looking for what life lacks
At my fingertips grasp
But alas my life has lapsed

9-15-23...

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The old sewing machine
Stiches noisily
The separated will be joined
The torn will be patched
But
Not the hearts that are apart
But 
Not the luck and glory that are lapsed...

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are wrote
all the songs songs
repeated
all the suns
burnt through space
all the worry
turned to worries
all the time has lapsed
moments no longer begun
and the dark has become the numb...

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Haiku
Old man
Spending his night
Finding a dream 


Haiku
On lapsed path he walks
Blocked veins and dry blood 
Black& white flowers   


Haiku
Ancient man
No future only vague hopes
Spiked roses...

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The Lying Truth

Stiff tongues pangs if sour truth take root,
lapsed lying lips cured make sweeter fruit.

2021 December 11
*3rd Place*
Bite-Size Poem #31
~~Line Gauthier: Judged 2022 January 12...

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SIGNIFICANCE
an
imperfect
rhapsody


embellish
unforgettable
melodies
 venture
forth
heartened
 delight
conveniely
 exaggerated
 compounded
phrased
&
appraised
estimated
&measured
circling
comprehension
in
creative
forces
lapsed
 destiny
both
 beautiful
&
emotional...

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Lost in a labyrinth of
Glistening sights
Infinitely out of reach,
Trembling amidst sweeping mistrals, 
Fabricating a life of nostalgic allusions,
Caught in lapsed reveries, of 
Restless arias and faint rustlings
Sequestering my rampant aura,
Bleeding in russet naivety, 
Evaporating in silent elegies....

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I heard the call of the wild
It bewildered me and chilled my body
Closed my mind filled
Filled me with uncertainty
I am entrapped in my own village
I have been lapsed
Fell!  Fallen to the tillage digging up dirt
Nature's worth

11/24/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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So many come blossoming, 
verily so many merrily 
so many! under the high-
spirited sun, opening 
a host of yellow. Nine, 
ten, three dozen blooms, 
now hundreds casting off 
the old lapsed minutes 
the months of cold – 
joking high-spirits
so sinuous on thinnest 
green stems – this very
morning so many!...

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Petrifying prediction proffered.
Abhorrent abominations
and shapeless shadows stalk streets.
Perpetually pitch
as Luna's light lapsed.
Prostrate and pray:
Stygian
nightmare
roused.

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28th April 2017

For the "Form N - Ninette or Nonet" contest, sponsored by Broken Wings.
(Eighth Place)...

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Pure precious yellow 
An endless go round
No end to the beginning
Is there to be found
By strength of devotion 
My commitment was cast
A circle the measure 
My ardor shall last
Donned on your finger 
To time lapsed unknown
Our future the brilliance
Within the luminous stone
Vows promised sacred 
My faith you can’t lose
Ever more than a partner
You are my muse....

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Brief respite lapsed,
Gray day too harsh
To venture out
As noontime last
When sidewalks teemed
With jacketless grins
And one pert, lithe runner
Of vernal youth
Flashed her bare palm
In friendly passing …

Now, through fogged pane,
I downheartedly watch
Three daffodils bob
Canary heads
Against this onrush
Of chill wet air:

Spring taunts winter’s
Doomed oppression....

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Poignant voice
In word choice


Stillness grounds
What voice sounds


Silence sparks
Vivid lark


Echo waits
Stuff and gate


Sorrow sad
Waits on glad


Not much mood
In lapsed good


Here a while
Hymn fond style


Purge all hurts
Rise from dirt


In plain fling
Mixed feelings


Apt poetry
Words surge free




Leon Enriquez
10 April 2016
Singapore...

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Poignant and manifest,time lapsed
moods become pastimes joined in
silence.Intuitive,held together ,irregular
emotive.Imprecise associations make
extraordinary leaps into consciousness
obscuring reality.

Hear me recite from my 4000+ PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro..

catch my short forms @strandpoet on twitter..

read my Christian&Poetry kindle guides on amazon...

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Another day first 
Lights by and by 
My heart is broken 
Mourning, sorrowing 
My quiet tears 
Stunning to my ears 
Sole in the haze of misery 
To my mystify
Lapsed slipped away
Your face I observe 
Gone your voice 
The house with tune 
Your hence makes me blue 
A cut heals over time
Emotional pain glues 
Eventually too 
I will have a scar 
It will remind me 
Of my love for you...

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February 3, 2022
Miracle Man 

Being heavy with snow the sky collapsed, 
a nor’easter is causing drifts to mount.
I find poetic concentration lapsed,
snow has increased by a goodly amount.

Ice crystals are forming on front storm door,
in scribbling my name, It’s cold to my touch.
Wife yelling at me while pacing the floor, 
I'm penned up inside and in winters clutch.
...

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Listen to poem:

Knowing That I Am
David J Walker
 
I’ve tried to keep my memories
Of seasons in  separate shoeboxes 
As time lapsed photographs of
Of Summers and  Falls
Winters and Springs
So that all might be compared and 
Shared as the layered things in a 
Lifetime of meanings
Pictographs etched into whatever 
Is left of my DNA 
Holograms to be reviewed
One day from every angle 
And they will say  that I am...

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I
Alan Watts says we live forever
In children if we can bear
There is no joy in going on, ever
And ever as a dying tree or flower

II
He was a brilliant Brit, knew nirvana!
Died as American, in California
Barely making 59 years, once pastor
Presbyterian in Pennsylvania

III
I need to research why he quit
He was undoubtedly good at it
For faithfulness few scholars matched
His authenticity, universality. Unmatched...

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The frost shall soon be
lost in its lapsed sight.
For Spring shall reach her
peak with shine and grace.
She is the bright light.

The time for hope
has come with dreams
of a fresh start.
Let’s praise this age.

We shall see
all the good
God can give.

Fear not
her charm-

Warmth


howmanysyllables.com

Diminished Hexaverse Contest About Spring Poetry Contest
March 29, 2019
Caren Krutsinger...

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dear, look 
you have-
avoided my rose 
denied my expression 
abused my feelings 
but behind the curtain, I've found you, 
your eyes, your lips and yours 
it’s all yours are-
seeking something,
feeling my absence silently,
finding out all of me……… 

why these are?
why this falsehood separation love is?
why this hides and seeks feelings are live lonely?
how many days will be lapsed in this way?


-February 28, 2019 Chattogram...

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Places that once had names
changed by wind and rain
and sun and shifting sands
once mapped and framed 
bad lands claim
dry bones. 

Desert meets sky
   and rivers run dry
and road is lost
    to all who try
to find their way
    to shining pools
of silver lies
    miraged below 
forgetful skies. 

Days go past in time lapsed
skies changing fast to black 
to red to blue to white 
and back again
to no end
in sight. 

4/7/14...

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