Short Millisecond Poems

There was that millisecond of a moment,
when i caught your eyes staring wonderly at my blank-clueless face,
and in that moment I lived a lifetimes worth of love and pain....

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january
wind gusts
this morning
were bitter cold
imagine my surprise
when for a millisecond
the sun peeked out
to kiss my cheek



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Posted on December 3, 2019...

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The main reason we have two hands I reckon
To pet two dogs at once and neither will feel lessened
Find it amazing I do
Also tying our shoes
That way we don't waste even a millisecond...

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All lifeforms are
merely temporary
inhabitants of
planet Earth.
Man's time a
millisecond hidden
in the vastness of
space
Yet  innocents still
suffer needlessly
again and again
In war; No One Wins....

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She cried out, “Coitus interruptus!?
That only works if the pulling out precise and abrupt is!
But you're always a millisecond too late!
And if we get child number eight,
that's surely gonna bankrupt us!"...

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How Much is a Millisecond?

By Elton Camp

The length of a millisecond you won’t debate
When you read this true story that I here relate
A millisecond is the length of time that’ll pass
From red to green and a honk from some ass...

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A thief in the family makes things hard.
Not impossible.


You just have to be aware.


Unfortunately your awareness happens
Sometimes a millisecond too late.

At least you are ready the next time.
Right?

Spoiler alert: you never are....

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Light a cinder
For all accumulated burdens
Life renews in a millisecond
As veins pump golden stories

Bonfire for vanity-
is good to feast on doubt
Celebrating royal love
Like tribes in weary sands

Realizing time is a gambit
Universe is out on loan
Are we are the passage...

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For some reasons
And no reason at all
I've been thinking
About how nice it is 
Or would be
To be scooped up
And someone with authority
Say
'you are safe now'
And how I'd feel in that
Millisecond
Before I punched 
Whoever the weirdo was
In the face
And legged it...

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Eight billion years
it has taken the fast radio burst
to travel from an unknown where
to here.
A millisecond of energy
that defies rational explanation.
The universe may be microwaving
a bowl of popcorn,
a bowl twice the size of Sol,
but are we a show worth watching?...

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a millisecond -
like one grain of sand among
all the universe -
history’s hourglass running
on earth and other planets

now imagine this -
all those gaps as one big void
spread out over time
a void which measured would be
one trillionth of unblinked time

Aug. 10. 2021
for unseeking seeker's The Void Poetry Contest...

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Intently,
I listen for any sounds of Fife or Drum;
But with no visual perception,
I find only muteness of time marching on;
In its own manner it pilfers our memories
Leaving Granite chiseled names,
And pillaged spaces where faces did dwell.
Time bequeaths each a past,
Grants the present millisecond,
And conveys hope of a future....

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Listen to poem:

What happened while
I was away, 
with my eyes closed 
momentarily,
just for a millisecond,
in midst of my blink.
Did I miss something?
What did you pinch?
What did you hide?
Did you smile?
Did you frown?
Did you laugh?
Did you cry?
Did you stab me?
Did you disappear?
Not blinking makes
my eyes ache.
Give me a break!
Will yeah?
Or I will, 
yeah!...

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angels sweeping out flakes
lackadaisically

successive shift:
fast and furious

angels on break
storehouse still
to be emptied

funniest sight?
a full-size snowman
drops from the clouds

foreman’s mad
he smiles though
at the cheeriest
curveball snow

angel’s never angry more
than a millisecond
heaven’s work a joy
yesterday, today and forever

Nov 2022...

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my heart 
beats softly
for thee and
for thee beats
broken beating
slower and slower
i've flat lined______

paddles
charged
         clear 
electricity spike
milligan for a millisecond
_______________________
wait a minute begin again Finnegan 

wake
to find
my friends
in rhyme not
rhythm sitting in
with the heavenly band
but not one knows a single note_______...

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The bells and whistles went off 
Announcing the "three question end of the game show" round.
The opportunity for the losing person to maybe catch up.
Just give me a picasecond please the studio host said
Is that less than a millisecond? the contender asked.
Oh, yes, even less than a microsecond, replied the host.
And a nanosecond? 
Yes. Two questions gone. What is your final question?...

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As he waited for the streetcar
that he had waited for so many times before
at this very spot
he thought
the weather is so dreary
but more ,
undeniable
that for a millisecond
silent rain
carried a silent pain
that hope could not sooth
and the streetcar would never carry away
the loss he held 
where love once dwelled
he thought
self absorbed
in the blink of an eye
the street car appeared....

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God & Time on Parade
Written: by Tom Wright
11/14/2014

Intently, 
I listen for any sounds of Fife or Drum;
But with no visual perception, 
I find only muteness of time marching on;
In its own manner it pilfers our memories
Leaving granite chiseled names, 
And pillaged spaces where faces once dwelled.
Time bequeaths each a past,
Grants the present Millisecond,
And conveys hope of a future;
...

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Anguish twisting in winds of torture
Cannot allow red clouds  of anger to
Replace the sweet contentment
Our love has sought by
Swearing eternal devotion
To each other or to
Incite or invite
Change by sorrow 

Each millisecond of eternity
Now or then ticking on
Despite the sweet seed of glory
Eternally impassionate and
Adamant in its unending
Vicarious understanding
Of ever daunting tasks
Remaining to be attempted...

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Some sensate specks of dust ponder
on this side of Infinity, they wonder:

        Is it probable or even just possible
        that millions of years to you and me
        are but a millisecond to someone else?

        Can there be, aside from us here,
        other intelligent beings on planets
        swirling down milky galactic wells?

Other specks of dust likewise wonder
at the other end of Infinity, they ponder....

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