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Poetry In Time



By Zachary Howlett



Poetry in Time

Zachary Howlett

Copyright 2010 by Zachary Howlett

Smashwords Edition



Poetry in time



By Zachary Howlett



Rhythmic writing, Melodic notes, the Harmony of Speech

My Entrance can be made, Women, Children, and Man, My Benediction

Emotions are calling, Hate and Happiness, To have sympathy





When Time Became my Enemy



Frozen with movement, feet locked in rhythms,

What never-ending repetition,

The few ways out of this place become paradise,



When I see the sun's warmth

contrasted by the crisp morning

I feel a difference, and realize perception.



Unbalanced



I am sure, but not how they want me to be.

I am only unbalanced in that I don't know how long I can stand this,

and how much longer they want me to stay.

They want my sureness to describe how they have helped,

But nothing they have done has changed me emotionally



Trust



People have a calling of not listening,

Of thinking they know.



Even when told that they may not,

Love can get in front and behind,

So can pride, jealousy, and anger,

It is trust I look for



A Wink



What is a wink?

A half-blink in this eye.

When a mind finds another who is it that thinks?

A desperate attempt not to fall.



Shining at the voice that comes along,

A smile that could last a life,

Two notes that create a song.

Sly is the hope in the face of a wrong.



A wink is that hope beyond a moment,

Can't it not be taken or taken aback after it is sent?

The quickest way to vent,

Is a lifelong friend.



Reinventification



Which words would sound right when compressed,

as tight as a block if possible,

Definitely not these words.



If you slow down, would they become clear?

I do not think so,

If they are written as fast as the hand could speed would they come into realization,

Beyond any others?



Doubt rings true,



I would try anyway, for it is an idea,

Sounds like mist the hand tries to catch



A Voice



Something unshaded can lead dozens out of their murky thoughts, add

melody and you give their hearts a beat to follow. But they expect too

much, they expect embarrassment for mistakes. That is the only thing of

dirt about it.



Wait



All of my time has become this spinster,

I feel it weighing down upon me. I split

into smaller sections to try and make pieces

faster. Only really the opposite is found.

So I write, it does seem to be, stopped minimal.



Lost Connection



To become lost,

Lost in the sun's presence,

lost with the chimes and birds,



A chirp, a bark through a cool day,

Means more than any whisper.



In Cold Blood



I look at the ashes,

All I find is dust.



Slowness



Caught.

In slow.



Freedom is nothing,

Fighting for something, diminished,



Caught,

Too slow.



Forget, figure, fidget,

All to be darkness,

There is nothing to this something.



With



She is gone.



The radiance to never know,

The real so sweet is

Missing before ever found,



My need is not,

The flow is still connection

As a river to find the ocean,

The peace is reaching,



Years or minutes pass,

Eyes do not close,

For she could be as with,

She always is.



Talents



Talent is used time,

And memory



The ability to learn in time,

And to remember those mistakes



Flecks



I feel the mindlessness stretching,

into minutes, hours, even seconds,

Trying to fill such with the arduous sense of intensity I no longer have


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