Short Prior Poems

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Premium Member Prior To Surgery

Holding hands in the crowded corridor
  A tender moment amidst the horror

You smiled at me, and touched my heart
  I returned the favor ~ thus did we part
Form: Couplet


Premium Member Maddy Prior, Sandy Denny, and Jacqui McShee

I live in hell, because I was given a choice,
who ever on earth had the sweetest voice -
Maddy Prior, Sandy Denny, or Jacqui McShee?
The demons rejoice
as in hell, I am bound to forever dangle
deciding, 
Steeleye Span, Fairport Convention or Pentangle?
Form: Rhyme

Prior To Conception

Prior to Conception


As if stunned by July in a hammock
I wait for my apricot wife

One curler more and the flutter
of leaves in the orchard

the sound of trees 
letting go

a downpour 
of plums still bouncing

around in the wicker 
propped open below


Donal Mahoney

Premium Member Prior to Intent

Was a warm glowing field.
I remembered it by scent.
Holographic thoughts formed
Like liquid beneath me, and I drifted
Through a blizzard of desires,
Impulses, and intuitions.
I was a knave, naive every time.
I sat there and got dizzy over
Ways to make spinach
So my kids would one day eat it.

Prior to Intent

From darkened forms of little thought
a fog of unknown dreams 
desire a feeling 
A fleeting thought begins to focus
a dream, a plan, a scheme unfolds
Did the subconscious create intent 
Or did past knowledge weave a dream
Did experience create intent
Or did the mind's unknowing dream explode


Premium Member She Comes Prior To Danger

I am feeling watched again
Nothing ominous
A nurturing spirit

She wants to guide me
I sense that she is not allowed
A sigh comes from my heart

most of my spirit guides are children
male children
this one is a female; I sense a grandmother figure

She comes prior to danger
I look at my car keys
hesitate to drive

Premium Member Prior to Intent

hovering in limbo
ideas strewn about
lacking sense or reason

images suspended in mid air
notions and impressions
floating and colliding

vague feelings in the raw
idly drifting meet their match
simmering a stance 

before long ...
thoughts are forming notions
interpreting and framing
and a plan's laid out for action



AP: 3rd place 2025

Prior to Intent

her presence at first sight
an illumination
something I didn’t understand

she stirred imagination

a current ran through my body
and whatever stirred
was beyond comprehension

an angel, perhaps

I watched
as she checked into my life
and disappeared without a word

but she lingered in my mind

a constant stirring

until the next time
when I said hello

Prior to the Afterlife

The ceiling sparkled;
I saw the big dipper, then the little one. 
The painters needed a bigger tip for their creative execution.
Without a warning to prepare, a requiem played. 
The symphony corned all aspects of a so-called classic; muffled screams, vulgar tongues and your tears – 
Silence doesn’t come fast and 
I begged for forgiveness and solidarity whilst connecting the dots of Orion.

Tremor

Before thought–the heart: a struck bell's hum,
in the chest's dark chapel. No word. Only thrum
that echoes the void where meaningwill climb. 

Is this the soul's raw conference? A draft.
of prayer–unwritten–lifting like a raft 
on some deep tide. Not speech. Not yet. But chime 

of nerve and grace. Mind fumbles, blind, to trace
this pulse–intent–before it wears time's face. 

The vibration: God's fingerprint, half-dreamed,
still tuning the harp of the unsung.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Prior to intent

Our resolve to ascend as we applaud, let us not forget that prior to intent, which fixated our focus, we had no sense of direction, as we floated rudderless at sea, alive and yet in a comatose state. It is God’s will that drives higher actions gentle love and light sans use of force, so though He does dwell in our heart, our free will must choose to pair, with bliss divine sublime, whence doing nothing, blessings in-pour and our path becomes clear.
Form: Etheree

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