Short Replayed Poems

second,thoughts-
still point
replayed...

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Misconstrued actions replayed,
Misinterpreted words sung,
Unspoken hatred nurtured,
Anarchy is inevitable.



March 15, 2022...

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Time is a predator
seeking to take away
our precious moments
never to be replayed.

Time is a mender
of much that is bad
smoothing over the sharp edges
making the past seem better....

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Star
Singing
Purple haze
Put spell on you
Electric guitar
The star spangled banner
Another overdose done
Poetic lyrics mesmerize
Waves of tunes that do misplace the mind
Music of his replayed, this very day...

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When you close your eyes
Does the pain remain
All those things 
That are hard to remember 

Pleading now for the time again
And an outcome easier to defend
Around inside your head
Replayed now you do dread.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Let me breathe that sea air
that once waltzed through your hair.
Let me view that sunrise
you once graced with your eyes.
Let me taste that baguette
from the morn we first met.
How I've replayed that dawn
since they told me you're gone....

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Destiny’s created in the ethereal domain ~
It's replayed in slow motion on earth, to cleanse our soul's stain

Let then oh weary hermit, our life here be not in vain ~
Know that a love drenched soul breaks free from cause and effect chain

09-November-2022...

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We took 
   a moment.

To ponder 
   the mind.

Caught in
   delusional.

Recesses 
    of time.

Who 

 What

  Where

   When

    How

  And
 
Why

Looking to comfort
  the insanity of lies.

Rewiring the
   memories.

Replayed in
   life....

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I wish I could travel back in time, 
to correct the mistakes I’ve made. 
Not that I’ve committed a crime; 
but it’s a shame our days can’t be replayed, 
and our errors erased and not displayed.

Contest Make a wish Sponsored by Kim Merryman
07~07~16...

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Painting myself into an emotional corner
  feelings trapped and staid

Family eliminated one by one
  old hurts and wounds replayed

Each year a brick in this wall of pain
  to shield me from the loss

Isolation my next of kin
  —love the only cost 

(Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2019)...

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If only genius could be contagious,
like chicken pox or flu

If only brilliance could be transferred,
like a bank draft overdue

If only insight could be replayed,
like a Mozart symphony

Then epiphany’s light would shine on all
—in communal rhapsody

(Ashbridge Pennsylvania: February, 2020)...

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Recorded music - 
running amok in my brain
mirroring my mood
taped, stored, replayed
Running soft, soothing
Turning complicated, confused
angry, worried or afraid
mourning and weeping 
Photographic moments... 
Give up the fight
Unleash the music
Let the demons rage
Let it shatter your heart
Pray the song never ends......

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He got up
Spent, but satiated
She smiled
Pulling the sheet up
Not wanting to expose
Her newly discovered being
He makes his way out
Leaving her with memories
To be played and replayed
In her mind
Fuelling fresh wants,
New hopes
Meeting fire with fire
But in the end of it all
Still….
Some unfulfilled desires....

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Just to be free
I will take a chance,
Without a backward glance
To close the door and lose the key
That has been too oft used
To unlock memories better lost in the sea
Of forgetfulness. 

Just to be unbruised
From a lifetime of hurt
And from all the recorded grooves
Played and replayed like a concert
That never improves and always subverts
Any chance of happiness,
Or at least a peaceful armistice....

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I can't even begin to explain
All of the places I have been
Crazy, weird and wildest of things
Lets say life is a wall full of mirrors
As even if the time is only a minute away
The are things you just can't play
Everyday, without a single complaint
Things remembered, moments replayed
Conquests deemed for the obcsene 
Every seam for the memory feeds
And the list for which it breathes 
For when it needs it becomes empty...

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If you see some one suffering yet
choose to look away, ignoring their pain,
go about your day..
In time this karma will be replayed..
Some people lack compassion you know.
They show no empathy for those in woe..
These self-centered souls lack God's grace,
with time they'll know anguish in their personal space..
Go help that stranger, be there for a friend.
These simple acts of human kindness matter
the most in the end.....

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Can you bear to remember
The pain is like an undying ember
Where the memory is such a drain
That causes you a painful refrain 

Do you feel it in your pit of your stomach
As it is replayed as an ache
Then there are days when you wonder
If the recall will drag you asunder 

So you test to see if the pain is as bad
Then you find the memory is just as sad
To endure such sadness is a task
When better days are all you ask.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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He watched her leave that autumn day
  Yet he seemed to not know why
 His boozing should have given it away
 All he heard next were echoes of her goodbye

 Years later he thought of that moment
 Now he wished she had not left
 A moment that replayed to his discontent
 He felt loss, emotionally bereft

 He became a prisoner of lost love
 Trapped behind the hands of time
 A moment he often thought of
 Still hearing the echoes of her goodbye chime

 9-1-2021...

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I reach as I am falling,
there is no one there,
no safety net below,
no easy landing anywhere,
time feels endless as I fall,
years pass before me 
mistakes are replayed
triumphs shortened
regrets overflow.
Nothing stops gravity,
nothing stops me,
the end but a few feet away,
it gets here quickly,
I am nothing as flesh meets ground,
a nothing to which I return,
all motion ceases - I am gone.
A bright light ends the journey...
daylight eliminates the terror....

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Mortal are us human kind
seeking peace with baited breath.
Immortality imparts the mind
to believe there is no death.
Immortality is really history …
writings from the then times wealth.
Replayed in a similar mode
as history repeats itself.
Each tiny fraction of the puzzle,
is ancient generations text,
leads the way to consider
what right now is needed next …
Each year reaches new horizons,
the past has been addressed -
and we live our life believing,
our time is the very best....

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Hid from the world,
None of this they must see,
Concealed from my friends,
This to them may be strange,
Cloaked from my home,
Phantom I may seem to be,
Caught in a web of perplexities, 
I fight to be freed,
Entangled in a replayed contest, 
I persevere to conquer,
Edged in by opposing forces,
I push against the barriers,
Though none of this I can comprehend,
I'm unperturbed like a river at dawn.



April 14, 2021,
This or That, Vol. 11 Poetry Contest: Fig Leaf,  
Edward Ibeh....

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