Short Tepid Poems

Morning yawns brisk air,
Into tepid moss-fill lungs: 
Shivering boulders....

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The tepid wind blows
Dancing leaves spin and crackle
Autumn has arrived....

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Tepid sculpting winds,
Rogue waves of blown sands tally,
Infinite loose grains....

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an acrid swill of wolf's bane
vigorously stirred into tepid lime sweet tea...
tearfully in black stands me.....

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an acrid swill of wolf's bane
vigorously stirred into tepid lime sweet tea...
tearfully in black stands me.....

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Constantly stand where the rain and dry meet
Where light and dark consumate
Where sound dies and silence is born
Forever Tepid...

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Light beckons this morn-

first rays filter free

tepid sprigs trip up

life left still, sans rest;

worn breaths hesitate

red eyes dissipate...

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She felt the tepid skin of her thigh against her face
a teardrop straddling from her cheek
looking for hope in a dream
that always ended
as his slaps left
her welted skin...

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All that's gone and all that's left
in the candy inventory, of illusions
what still sublimates me...
The shadow of dreams, at parties
scenery of memories, seasons... !
that I lived...!...

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Still
beneath flying
buttresses of Notre Dame--
Polaroids shake
in their furious hands.
I wonder quietly,
tepid remorse
of stillness, mine
and its, will it illuminate
or dissolve in the light?...

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Naked Farewell

Old gnarly never looked so good
outstretched arms hugging the tepid sun.


John G. Lawless
11/21/2014

submitted to Crystalline – Poetry Contest
sponsor – Rick Parise...

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We’ve lost the ability
to laugh at ourselves …
P.C. humor both lifeless
and dry
Our levity as tepid
as our character flawed
Fraying the tightrope
—awaiting a fall

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)...

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As tepid  summer
Seeks  tender hearts lost
That look 
That smile 
Shining eyes
That face
She plays
There she goes
A soft whisper
Indeed enticing
There she goes again
Her style this while Hypnotic...

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What is it about the sight of the female form
That turns us to hot jelly from a tepid lukewarm
We fumble and fuss
Our complexion gets flushed
As we anticipate the approaching thunderstorm...

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My heart is shattered and broken
Scattered like the leaves of Autumn 
The pieces Dancing carefree like a  child In tepid winds
Looking for a place to settle it  rises and falls again
Restless and wanting...

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Stillness.
Heavy and dank,
The tepid air steams
From the ground, confused and distorted.
Warming.

Silent.
The spectrum muted.
Sallow wind haunts, and
Cobalt tones eclipse memories of white.
Chilling....

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Thermal couplets driving passionate phrases
Turning tepid thoughts to raging inferno
Raising the thermometer of infectious responses 
Dripping emotions from a sweating monologue
From fiery heart to scorched paper; delivered...

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Tepid wind that neither cools nor warms,

blowing with no destination.

Similarities abound

to my scattered mind's state.

Thoughts run here and there

with no passion,

or purpose:

with no

love....

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What is it about the sight of the female form
That turns us to hot jelly from a tepid lukewarm
We fumble and fuss
Our complexion gets flushed
As we anticipate the approaching thunder storm


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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Your top edge
is geometry – 
a never-ending
finger-tracing
line.

Your inside 
is liquidity – 
a tepid spa
of chocolate
that I’d rather 
had been 
hot.

Your handle 
bends its elbow. 
Linking up,
I sip.

A tulip to my lips –
You are my cup.
...

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A spoonful of substance—
that’s all I’m looking for. 
Stir it in while it’s hot. 
Let it dissolve and
rest until it’s tepid. 
Saccharine black?
Drink up. Dry. 

Granules cluster the bottom of the mug
and bitterness lingers on my tongue.

I’ve fooled myself again....

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I don't want to be cool
Nor tepid

Though warm is different to hot

Inadvertently cold
Mirrors and smokin'

When I'm on fire, nobody is burnt

But observation is futile
As this is just a feeling
Differences of opinion rife
I'm who I am in a moment 
But never tepid...

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shallow groves
of my mind 
tepid waters break 
over  and over
hollow thought
of you tonight
a car crash
in my life
never was sober
shallow groves
all your lies
insecurities
swallowed whole
i gave up 
when i ran
when you wake up
quite hungover
want to stay in bed...

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Her beauty surpasses the most majestic of scenes
Her laughter resounds like a rolling sea
My throat tightens at the thought of losing her
Her smile brightens the most tepid of days
With her I’ve learned “I Love You” in a million ways
She is my daughter, the love of my life....

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All day long on the boulevard
Fire escape I elude with attitude
Heat wave of summer's sting
A tepid breeze of spring 
I sing of pastels and 
Lemonade in the shade
Summer time haze and laze
Yes! Steel drum LABOR DAY PARADE
from the thick VIRGIN ISLANDS CRAZE
In my imagination...

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