Slowness Poems - Poems about Slowness

Whys Don’t Wise Me Up

...What do I know, what do I know of you, Lord?
I know what you divulge. I know if I dig deep enough.
I’m not required to take a shovel, but to trust you,
as if that friend that waits to catch me as ...

Love’s Unraveling, Love’s Return

...
She says she loves me—yet dreams of another,
her heart adrift on restless tides,
where my name dissolves into echoes,
a whisper lost before breath takes hold.

I am broken.

I see her alone ...

Shifting in Stillness

...I am learning in a way Sunday teaches
In stillness
In the pause before the next step
In slowness
Letting the world hum around me without needing an answer
In knowing that growth does not only as...

o lord, hear me

...Lord, hear my prayer,
Get me rid of my diabetes,
listen to the little birds,
Who sing when the street lamps light up,
listen to the tram driver,
which carries so many people incapable of loving,...

A Letter to Justin

...Grant me grace
As I fall into this place,
With so much acheived
And so much more to go.

Grant me grace
As I recall my old face,
Such rivers of emotions,
Immaculate proportions.

Grant me g...

white pulp

...We all need sun, O white pulp
Pineapple and soft light, mango
Me first, then the policeman, then Solène,
We need a long Brazilian nap,
in Bahia or on the fine sand of Copacabana.

The tanned sk...

doriss phenomenal memory

...Doris had a phenomenal memory
It served her poorly
Others resented her inability to forget
Because slowness to forgive followed it side by side...

Old age

...Old Age
=======

Time will not stand still,
Moving ahead all the time.
Once it  starts it's journey,
No one can intervene.

Before we could realize,
Old age encircles us.
With forgetfulness...

Sonnet 147

...You said you were cured
What sickness doth ail you?
I thought we were friends
So what wall did you break through?

We chat so infrequently
Your condition is hidden
Like you locked away feeling...

Peace In the Nowhere

...
"Peace in the Nowhere"

Ghosts remain in this place
they read their words 
marked each day on walls
like prayers, it gives them
peace in the nowhere

someplace relevant ...

Harbinger Birds of Spring a Resurrection of Spring Life

...With the incoming sounds of spring, a resurrection of life,
the chilliness flees. Quote _ by Poet

Ready for a new season, Spring birds
Shake off winter; embracing
The bonniest warmness weather,...

The King Kong Song

...It’s Sunday morning and we’re in the new, exciting, daylight savings time. Peter and I are sitting next to each other on the big, red, corduroy couch in my suite’s common room.

All of my roommates...

The Highway Doesn'T Care If You'Re On Your Way Home

...The Lord gives us so many blessings. I am lucky to have him on my side.

 I woke tired, not too motivated to do much. I use my age for my slowness, I guess a crush. I did walk Peanut my dog a few t...

Paid In Full

...He saved my life, bid me "Repent"

                         My sins then on His cross were sent
 
                           I could not hide before His eyes

                           No way ...

Aquittal

...as if drawn by an invisible jury

the mood inched closer

to adjunction

incrementally and with

unbearable slowness of progress

it nibbled away at sizeable apathy

pinched a tiny chard ...

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