Short Reprieve Poems
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A twelve-month extension
left under the tree
The Muse playing Santa
— her words my reprieve
(Deamsleep: December, 2025)
Crashing salt trucks
A brief reprieve from the cold
But not from the other
Unwanted warmth of
A hundred score burning bodies
morning birds once more
return to serenade my
winter survival
January 11, 2010
Winter torments
With skies all gray
And frigid air,
Sleet, drizzle, rain—
But, late at night,
Among warm sheets,
My wife and I
Find spring again.
it seemed
his pretentious gibberish
would never end
and then
out of nowhere
emerged
the most blessed
awkward
silence
AP: Honorable Mention 2021
Coated in Black Gold
Migration ends abruptly....
Reprieve dubious
Migration is my season word
© May 13 2010 For Raul’s “Tainted Feathers” contest
You told your man you would call.
You told your man to stand tall.
So here I stand with the phone in my hand waiting for a reprieve from the loneliness I grieve.
The snake sidles up to Eve
from God she soon seeks reprieve
With us yet, it slithers into Halls of Power
injects venom ~ brave leaders cower
Softly,
I leave you
Within the falling
rain
And take my leave,
the storms reprieve
Its tears
—to wash the pain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Break
what has said has been said
what has been felt still lingers
see the chips and the cracks
too deep to recover
too distant to believe
so there is no reprieve
Softly,
I leave you
Within the falling
rain
And take my leave,
the storms reprieve
Its tears,
—to wash the pain
(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2017)
Love when gone sour
Is like a knife plunged
Deep into your heart
Twisting and hurting
Nights are troubled
Longing for that one
Who is destroying you
Without any reprieve
As long as we be identified with body-mind,
there can be no reprieve from fear,
whilst in staid silence, if we choose to be divine aligned,
we sense God’s presence draw near.
Many emotions roll by the sidewalk and leave
but some, they stay and claim your soul
like a turbulent halo stirring your crown
They stick around and anchor/with no reprieve
Crying uncontrollably
Hoping for a reprieve
Rarely coherent
Irretrievably broken
Stifling in tears
Trying to keep it together
Makes a token effort
Always lost
Sinks further
Built to ease bottled up restlessness,
a reprieve from overheating.
Left frustrated by fleeting,
all of the after hours
are fading so fast.
The bittersweet
summer wind
will not
stay.
Miser Ebeneezer dreamt on Christmas eve ,
Omen from Ghost Present...without reprieve
Oldie's ill fate declared by this Dark Force -
Awed, Scrooge fainted with a voice so coarse!
Death ever faithful
in spite of the glee
Holding our place
in wanton reprieve
We ever the cuckold
of life’s dark affairs
As quiet it waits
— a loyal au pair
(Dreamsleep: June, 2024)
My strength
Is my weakness.
I fall so easily,
Unaware of all my pitfalls.
Then, I cry pitifully for mercy,
And a hand lifts me up again.
Today, I gain reprieve.
God’s love gives me
My strength.
Inspiring you to write your own,
my words fell silent
your heart to roam
Creating space for thoughts to breathe,
new feelings await
my loves reprieve
(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2016)
A dear heart aggrieved may find it hard to offer reprieve
until the heart that yearns for such mercy sinks to the grave.
The heart consumed by hate
may mourn hard but it's already too late.
February 28, 2023
A Poet dies
and
the world lives
to mourn
Rereading his
words
a new spirit
is born
In paradigms
searching
for hope and
reprieve
His memory
calls out
to those
— who believe
(Dreamsleep: May, 2025)
No matter how famous we become or what we achieve
We all meet the same fate, no one gets a reprieve
Be they, king or pauper
Or some rich man's daughter
We're all gone and forgotten when we finally take leave
Let the thoughts simmer,
let the words breathe
Excesses slimmer,
passions reprieve
Leave the ink arid,
keep the page clear
Treasure the silence,
—that only you hear
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2016)
No matter how famous we become or what we achieve
We all meet the same fate, we don't get no reprieve
Be they king or pauper
Or some rich man's daughter
We're all gone and forgotten when we finally take leave