Short Rewound Poems

Lends us vigilence.
 
The Camera can record perfect details.

Seek,eye,seek what needs to be seen.

Show us from your many vantage points

Help us our picture to complete.

The rolling footage is rewound and

we hope what we look for is found....

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A little eye not made by man.
All woman seem to have.
Available to none but honey bees.
Clinging to my window butterflies.

If only screens were made back then,
rewound beyond tomorrow comes.
Voices heard inside my head that said.
Honey sweet the bread is made today.




e.d....

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Do I want this
diagnonsense/diagnosis?
do I feel this
need for an abyss?

Sometimes I cry
curled up tight
Sometimes I try
to reach the light

Motivation surges
Here comes the urge
Squash it down
Smile rewound

Fine on the outside
Normality shines
Hiding here inside
Fears unwind...

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For an aged brother, RIP.

His good ole days are still to be,
In football heaven, in eternity,
Looks at the face of the universe, does he,
He rewound his music, so country,
He got them all back, you see,
His wife, his old dog, his car, no needs,
Pray his good ole days are still to be........

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A little eye not made by man,
all woman seem to have.
Available to none but honey bees.
Clinging to my window butterflies.

If only screens were made back then,
rewound beyond tomorrow's song.
Voices heard inside my head sing to me and say.
Honey sweet the bread was by me, made today.




e.d....

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Don't know what to think
Don't know where to go
I'm so stuck in between 
And I don't know what to do

Is it you that is my saviour
Or will you bring me down
You were my peace, serenity
But now that's all rewound

I'm lost in between 
This day and the night
Stuck in a place 
With paths beyond my sight...

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A soft spell of unfounded lightness,
confounds
deep engraves of pride and posture
A sweet pace of evenness branded,
pervades
tales of dew, and wine-filled sadness

Remorseless fumes and dues to end this,
decide
a tasteless tune of truth rewound
Cautious terms of proven bonds,
rest on knots
and yet you won't...

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My heart stops when I hear your name
As if time rewound and taunted me only to hurt again
And sometimes I see your eyes in others
Just a glimpse of what was 
And then the day goes on but you do not
Frozen in time 
But I am comforted by those frozen memories
How I wish gone was recycled into now
Or maybe it is already...

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Is it safe to say?

None are forgotten?

None are lost?

None are rotten?

None are false?

Is it safe to say?

All can be rewound?

All can be profound?

All can be found?

Is it safe to say?

None look for help?

None look to help?

Is it safe to say?

All are loved?

Is it safe to say?

NO

Contest: contemporary...

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folding chairs
folding clothes
climb the stairs
the garden hose
needs rewound

writing tablets
writing checks
feed the cat
the kids have yet
to come home

washing machine
washing dishes
fix my hair
send best wishes
to the newly-weds

cleaning rags
cleaning rugs
clean the house
making love
while planning
a new kitchen...

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My feelings well up from inside
Suppressed no more, this side
Every deed now with emotion
The balm of a healing lotion

Stuck no more in sterile talk
I am on the freedom walk 
Free from being trapped
Now in territory, unmapped

What do I now really feel?
Like a rewound movie reel
Like a volcano rumbling
Buried feelings now bubbling...

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ZZ Snore, Snore, ZZ
Written: by Tom
9-6-2019


Night’s sleep was scanty,
today I’m logy and slow.
Forgetting pharmaceuticals,
caused tossing to and fro.

Today my song,
won’t be a mellifluous sound.
But I’ll be pedantic,
until my sleep clocks rewound.

I’m apt to be loquacious,
during sleep once again.
While a good power nap,
might mollify my pain.
...

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Dear friend of mine,
You were divine,
And yet I never knew.
A view of you,
So true- it grew,
Did not quite pass my mind.

If I could but,
Just tell you what,
Your words have meant to me,
I would take these lines of gold in worth,
And place them round your neck.

I was fond of you-
Oh brother of mine-
As only time could tell.
If clocks rewound,
I would paint a tale,
Where friends did never bail....

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Named after you in 
anticipation,
I am having an eye? 
on the musk deer, 
       for scent-marking.

After an infinitesimal 
pause, I start counting 
the days, to read 
my bruised poem, 
       pink and blue.

Why are you taking it out 
at me ? I ask the future 
sitting beside me. I am living 
this moment in full glory.
        The clock must be rewound.

A tiny pain, pops up 
        tells the full story.


Satish Verma...

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Memories float in the emptiness,
   in a room full of you ~
like the dust in a ray of sun
disturbed by whispered wishes
& the silence of echoed sighs...

God, I wish so, that time,
could be rewound like    
a movie that always began,
    but never ended!!

YOU, are worth so much more
than thoughts in this empty room
that is so - very full of YOU
and... overbrimmed with everything
     ~ that was US...

    I MISS YOU..........
...

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From her garage, with no delay,
she started to back out one day,
not seeing in her own driveway
a child at play; a child at play.

One moment cannot be rewound.
She’d never heard a single sound
but felt the impact; on the ground
her son she found; her son she found.

We should not judge her for the sake
of mercy since her grave mistake
must place on her - guilt hard to take,
A lifelong ache, a lifelong ache.


For the Monotetra Poetry Contest of Kim Merryman...

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Buried Sadness

smiles  floats away
a gaze drifts to empty places
forest of mist covered canopy
no pathways
childhood meadows lost
embers with no glow


buried, yet infinity lingers
beauty tender, soft and loving
if only time could be frozen
no passions to decompose
If only sadness
floated to the skies

sleeping beauty
before me
if only time could be rewound
fairy tales never to be
yearning for golden chariots
buried sadness
my tear for
her ...

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Distinct tones
Unsung words
Echoes ringing through my head
Rewound thoughts
Replay over
Missing not a word

Details sought
Read between the lines
Echoes become louder
Thoughts that follow
Casting their shadows
Nowhere to run or hide

Distant cries
Ghostly whisper
Echoes continueously remain
Remnants of the past
Linger deep within
Reminders of past pains

Stop the torture
Stop the pain
Recend into the grave
Forgiven not forgotten
Memories do change
The echoes go away...

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