Short Refocused Poems

Time
divorces from memory
Moments
refocused sublime

Lost
in sequential detachment
Freeing the message
—unsigned  

(The New Room: June, 2023)...

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Lights flicker on the laptop
Taking me to starlit nights

An unassuming muted skyline
Helps me recall Brooklyn Bridge at sunset

This cup of tea reminds me
What it's like to be held in love...

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The street light shined dimly
Its shallow shadows slithered
The icy covering now bearded
In a five o’clock shadow

His hand faltered
The easel rattled
His brush refocused
On the edge of the wind...

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Vow I take, triumph I foresee
Verbal promise, clear-cut, precise 
Volition has my guarantee
Values changed, new contempt for vice
Virtue's purpose is verified 
Vision refocused, clarified
Vacillation is absentee

written:  June 4, 2018
Joseph May's contest Pleiades Poetry...

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Blank horizons, desolate space
Oblivion in this place
Grey fibers, blank wonder
Losing its luster
Exhausted dreams, taunted hopelessness
Emptiness in this openness 
Ruptured dreams, fractured spindles 
Ideas are hindered 
Stamped with astuteness
Reality refocused, thank goodness...

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Lost inside passion
with burning desire
Vision refocused
in tunnels of fire

Screams of delirium
christen the night
Darkness a metaphor
tainted delight

One then another
the virgins do fall
Lascivious demons
unleashed in the hall

Till daybreak approaches
new light on the way
The beast back in harness
—this evening to stray

(The New Room: January, 2024) 
...

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dark
pitch black
absolute silence
voice not heard
got killed or lost
path misplaced
dreams got away
aims lost focused-temporarily
plans got disrupted
just stuck 
where did life go?
dark in here
looking for light
signs being neglected...
a day arises soon
darkness shall overpowered by bright lighting
ray of hope sensed
voice will be listened
path come into track
dreams will be nearer 
aims refocused..
back with a bang!!...

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You always taught me to 
Never look back

Only focus on tomorrow
Keeping sight on the right track

I, am now, refocused
Thank you very much

I have accepted my new life
From your gentle touch

No man can ever harm me
For I have have truly learned

I can only live once
Now this I yearn

Please guide me through any darkness
When I seem blind

To leave the past forgotten
And Happiness we will find...

Love Always,

Your little girl...

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and so as leaves
fleeing Fall’s frailty
they scatter on the wind

poems
blowing blindly
down silent streets

words
shouting
in moonless darkness

thoughts
blinking
in refocused rant

metaphors
meandering
through melancholy

alliteration
arguing against
ages angst

keyboards
mocking the scratching
of pens

fingers
reaching out
caressing words

baiting
a trap
for idle eyes

warming
the tea
of time.


John G. Lawless
©3/25/2018...

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