Short Midway Poems

USS Midway
Single A Home run Derby
San Diego Bay...

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old man moves
to finishing line
the fastest collapses midway...

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poised midway in the void of no-thingness ~
our soul is entwined with the that oneness...

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Pacific Island
upon the living room wall
silent faces cry.

© Harry J Horsman  2010...

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Carousel,
flashing lights,
play along,
music flows,
cotton candy is enjoyed,
an alive midway....

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When is not zero
merely negative chaotic dissonance?

So then,
why is not(not)
positively regenerative MidWay confluence?...

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A wind that follows,
first dawn on your eye-lids,
small boat that rocks,
for unseen they pleasure floated midway on the waves....

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midway to winter
morning fog shrouds leafless trees
all color is gone
but the robin still chatters
with the last sad chickadee
...

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gush of emotion
pent up feelings
burst forth as release
recalibrated midway
by spherical vision
auto correcting
our direction
by grace

08-June-2023...

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Those squirrels aren't born to be squealers
Once flat it’s too late for faith healers
Midway between tyres
Avoids the hell fires
Alas, there are bloody three wheelers...

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There was a tight rope walker named Rhett
Who bravely refused offers to use a net.
One night midway on the wire
Crotch itch struck like flash fire.
What followed hundreds seek to forget....

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Southern Bell
Was I and 
You my soldier, 
or so I thought.

I believed in 
One Nation
And you spoke
to me. 

The love I invented.
Lost you were,
In the midway. 

A circus of 
ideals....

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Me. 

On back porch, I jostled 
Against time.

I saw 
Night 
Overcame day,

Intriguing 
The footsteps
Of my 
Barren sigh; and

As I met
Midway 
My sleep,
The phone 
Buzzed; someone interviewed my heart....

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Life might be compared to a Nonet;

if words be deeds, how we flourish

in the first several lines!

But the lines, like time, start

to dwindle midway.

Last word; last line -

Too fast we

meet the

end....

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knitted by stars

   words hang on fired lanterns

       as rhymes serenade

trailing down nightfall deep…

        ink freezes midway



5/08/2016
Short Poem Poetry ___ for Andrea Dietrich
modern tanka in 26 syls...

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To beautiful glorious Hawaiian Midway Island I am bound.
Terrific hope in my heart, and an old 70’s boom-box for sound.
You cannot stop me. Headed for the ocean, I want to feel alive!
Then I will ask my grandma. She does not care that I am only five!...

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if you look into my eyes
you can see the crucifixion,
the blood
the tears,
you will see my slaughter.

so here I am,midway through my life with a future I cannot recognize 
and a past that chases me.
I relive every mistake sitting in a chair of blood....

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craving moments of solitude
knowing one day 
I’ll hate them with passion
as I’ll fear loneliness
and the falling curtain
striving now for equilibrium
to sit midway on the spectrum
of life’s tightrope
inside my head



AP: 3rd place 2020

Posted on January 23, 2019...

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Midway
Dauntless bomber
pockmarked sky ... fire rains up
craft spirals down. Mate trapped ... eject
alone

2/7/2016

Contest--The One Who Survived 

Sara Kendrick...

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Flaming light in forehead aglow
On morn of today’s dawn
God’s grace sublime saying hello
Smiles midway through our yawn

Third eye sensorium 
Now a wisdom fulcrum 
Joins heart in body prism

Soul’s delight
Flaming light

02-January-2021
Quietus ...

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In your sad eyes,
Feel surge of pain;
Tears now look dry 
As poise now strains.


Tears not in vain,
I reach midway;
A certain strain
Now opts to play.


Sad eyes know best,
Pain hurts feelings;
A dreary jest
Ere true healing.




Leon Enriquez
21 November 2017
Singapore...

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a vase on the windowsill
and I'm gazing at the moon
whose radiant pearly beams
dazzle rose petals

fragrance awakes my senses
midway from sunset to dawn
and the moon's my only friend
in glittering night 

I am loving the nightlife
in my room of the full moon
sleepless but for these moments
of quiet beauty...

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Glow from slight open door shining my way
casting a long shadow of me behind.
I stand alone and think awhile, midway;
glow from slight open door shining my way.
Portal crossed, shadows fall the other way,
as does the light. The choice is ill-defined.
Glow from slight open door shining my way,
casting a long shadow of me behind....

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Lifted feet for the step,
it froze,
what idiocy and crap,
in the midway,
what had made it freeze,
it was deliberate and intended,
all steps they freeze like that,
a lot of thawing later,
I do take it anyway,
but imagine the cells,
that translate from cold to heat,
every now and then,
will they be good to stand me in this human seat....

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Everytime you go away,
When you go into the unknown,
You leave me forlorn midway,
Listening out for the echo

Of the words you never said,
And promises you never gave.
No answer – dead silence instead.
No way to take – like a slave

Of dreams never coming true,
Of fear for the lonely day,
Of my heart weeping for you
Everytime you go away…...

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