Shortness Poems - Poems about Shortness

KING COBRA

...Confronted eye to eye
Deep in the jungle
A Bite
Predator venom attack
Accelerating poison
Effect thereafter
Slowly shortness of breath
The thought how much time left
Body rhythms started to e...

Felix Culpa

...We quarreled to bitter, burning degrees 
(you)loving me 
as a tender trespasser 
     a chew toy 
     boy 
demanding compliance 
forced feedings 
down
to sock selection 
(your)cons...

The Courage of Stars

...You taught me the courage of stars before you left
How light carries on endlessly, 
even after death
With shortness of breath
You explained the infinite
And how rare and beautiful 
it is to eve...

bagatelle

...Bagatelle

You see the old olive tree  at the entrance of the village
 take it for granted until you see the tree is dying
still, it has about it a non-communicative dignity
an acceptance of lif...

A Day in my Shoes

...Practicing how to breathe, when there's a shortness of breath.A slow rhythm in the background calms me down, when a void tried to look into me.I was up alone yet again while the demons of the night v...

October creeps amid the shadows

...October creeps amid the shadows
Lengthening
The shortness of the day
Dancing amid the pumpkins
Chortling in its chill
Adding boney fingers to the trees
Reaching into our fears
Tickling with te...

one of the strongest relationships

...the child held onto her grandmother
knowing she was in safe hands
her mother smiled, glad they had this time
she understood the shortness of life better than most
she loves you, she told her moth...

The Sweetest of Kisses

...My tongue tastes the sweetness of your kiss

Both heart and spirit are awake

The long languid suppleness of this

Is almost too much for me to take

My body trembles from your light touch

...

Pressure

...Do you ever feel like you are dying
Like someone is sitting on your chest
Constricting the flow of oxygen
feeling the shortness of breath
Pressure that threatens to steal your last breath
I'm no...

As Snow Falls

...Gentle flakes dance gracefully to the ground
Each one made with perfectly unique crystals
They blow and swirl, going around and around
Until reaching their destination, frosting the world below

...

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...Anxiety.

Breathing heavily, 
heart fluttering,
shortness of breath.

Still environment surrounding me.

Overly piercing voices of others.

Pounding head.

Worry creeps in.

Will it be ...

Autumn

...The Autumn crocuses sway
amongst the shadows of the pine trees
The air is resonant with smoke
As the buddleia dies down

August as thick as musk
Blackbird came a calling
about Autumns shortnes...

Plaything of Time

...I live like a cancer - quick, unplanned growth unheeding of greater designs.
I devour information like a starving wolf - never sated, never tasting the goodness I consume.
I throw myself into activ...

A Weightloss Journey - a Life Changing Dream

...Shortness of breath, the struggle with stairs
The paranoid thoughts, of judgemental stares

Tomorrow I'll start, next week I will too. 
The person you're fooling can be only you.

You carry on,...

The Queens of Stirling Castle

...The Stirling Castle flowers speak
To those who stop their feet and mind walking
And declares in honesty the verity of the corporeal soul
Among the insects who fill the air.

The Queens of the Ca...

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