Shortness Poems - Poems about Shortness

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

... Too much to know, I just don't know it As I fumble around, just a humble poet Frustrated as I watch unfurl a show I just don't know it, too much to know Answers are near, in the palm of my h......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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 ......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...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,......Read the rest...

...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......Read the rest...

...Celebrity deaths can be bizarre someone so close yet so far the realisation hits you hard yet they have no clue who you are Meat Loaf sang to my youthful years Sarah Harding sang with my ......Read the rest...

...It happening again I see it Even with me eyes closed I talking about my sister Brenda you know. I wanted it many times. Jerry first than mom. The shortness of breath. That feeling of w......Read the rest...