Category Archives: Poetry
An incomplete thought,
Trailing off –
Suggesting,
Rather than stating:
A hint, a pause,
A doorway to possibility,
Or a sign of hesitation –
Or something left up to
Your imagination.
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How can the same words
Sound so different?
Mean the opposite?
Hurt, then heal, then
Hurt again?
Said once from love,
Once in anger.
One in pain:
One full of joy.
Yet the words never change.
English can be very
Strange.
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Some things cannot be put into words. Yet somehow, when they are, they become even more powerful.
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No
I can’t believe –
Or won’t.
It’s too soon:
So often cool,
So much rain.
Rarely hot –
Barely sunny,
And yet today,
It starts to end,
To reach the peak
While my brain repeats:
Summer’s almost over.
What happened to Spring?
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One more workday left
Tension; Anticipation
No! I’m ready now!
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“What?” they ask,
“Do you want to be?”
“Not a what,” I say with glee.
They look confused.
They frown. They glare.
I smile back, a silent
“So there!”
They try again.
“What’s your career?”
I chortle –
“Now, that’s a better question,
My dear.”
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The hero leaves —
Hot sun
Sweat and tears
Walking onward
Fighting the heat
Trying to cool
Sweating
Melting
Failing
With her last strength
She reaches the door and
Flips a switch:
Deus Ex Machine
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Unseen and suffocating
Pressing against us
Worse than heat, stealing our breaths
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Spider-like, they sit and watch
Subtle, deceptive
Camouflaged
Hidden
You walk beneath them
Beside them
Their webs cling unnoticed
Until the fangs
Pierce
Sink
Drain
Again and again
Another and another
Sucking out all that you had
Have
Will have
Until even the husk
Collapses
Into dust
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Instead of flapping my arms, I flapped my gums.
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