Short Terminal Poems

Great terminal
Pendulum heart
Boiling pot of oil!...

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Terminal to enter portals of the world through air travel...

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youthful impressions
parental termination…
reciprocation...

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to the poet~ death is but an incurable case of writer's block...

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Is your head the terminal could be?
     or the departure, both things your head is?...

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The ticking of the clock
Echoes in the silence
Of the room.
Time,
Like my life
Ebbing away....

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Sitting- on the boat,
I am- intrigued by the- fog-
                    which- destroys- the world....

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S-earching for shelter, 
A-s the raindrops keep falling, 
C-ommuters await. 





Form: Acrostic Haiku...

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People in the terminal 
who drag their traveling bags 
fall in line for their tickets 
and passports as well....

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there just ain't no cure 
there is only punnish meant
deadpan - grave - humor

© Nhan Goode Guy 2014-03-04 ;-)...

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UNWELCOME NEWS

I am sympathetic, yet relieved
At my friend’s terminal diagnosis
As it could just have been me...

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Here lies Beatrice Lily Croff
Died from a terminal cough. 

Written March 19, 2022
[enough already!]...

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The subconscious process of pursuit
of the lifechanging climax

Endless, exhausting and deceptive
waiting on terminal hospitality ward...

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Poetry is terminal, incurable-
it manifest words around the heart, mine and soul
hopefully it won’t discolor the skin but; 
for around the eyes....

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rain soaked sun light
prognosis not terminal
three good years left
do I hug and say thank you?
eighty have passed as nothing
~//~...

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There was a fellow named Cheesing
Who felt bad because of his sneezing.
His friends stayed away
To avoid the overspray.
Now Cheesing has taken up wheezing....

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with the sun setting, 
dusk darkens the ground below
and vistas fade out~
days flee like defeated youth
as we tread slow to our grave...

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travelers waiting
busy terminal buzzes
loud piped in music
occasional temper flares
late departure time announced


written June 8, 2021...

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Masterminding with a dream and a step;
It's a beautiful challenge.
With those exuberating eyes;
Growing brighter,
Auspicious,
Bold,
Evermore a lasting last terminal breath....

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Terminal poetry…
death by the word

Selling a heartbeat
for every breath

Giving up life
for each new phrase

Buried
—inside what’s heard

(Ronald McDonald House: February, 2020)...

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Came home from land of Israel on a red eye flight
Connecting routes canceled because of winter’s bite
I'm camping in the airport with fluorescent view
A weary pilgrim in terminal number two....

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prognosis not terminal
do I hug and say thank you
You give me rain soaked sun light

What is three, eighty have passed as nothing

© 29 Dec 2010  For Rick’s Pariku contest...

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demeanour relaxed and affable
he was not a dancer, yet performed a jig
return gift an ivory photo frame for each guest
the painkiller shielded his terminal illness
dance of death enacted in jest...

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Listen to poem:

I'm poised to deliver a singularity,
   a pithy black hole,
a spot from which there's no escape
   once key or pen is lifted;
It's terminal - period:
Wait for it! The End is nigh!
There, it's done ....

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A mouthful
of hate
A bullhorn
of lies
Dissected
infected
With terminal
pride
Conscripting
the fledgling
Embedded
in brine
Indicted 
convicted
True felons
— of time

(Dreamsleep: June, 2025) 
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