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Sarah Hauser's avatar

Never Enough Time

Never enough time

But so much time in my past

An age far down the road

How to make minutes last

In this state

At this date

Fast rate

But never too late

To try something new

Not a duplicate

Of previous fate

But a new way

To see

Feel

Learn

No time

No time to burn

Slowing down the moment

To feel

See

Be

Hear-

Here

Never enough time

But I know that this moment

Means everything

#artstackpoets #ThePoetryHaul @ARTSTACK

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Bari Hochwald Cagnola's avatar

The rain keeps count

Time lusts forward

Never duplicating the feeling in my chest

But expanding it painfully toward the past

Four, Five, Six

When did it happen?

A state of grace to forget

A broken plate at dinner

Turkey breast among shards of ceramic

A breath brings me back

The rain keeps count

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The Hidden Clinic's avatar

And when they ask what we want?

We answer:

A world where mercy isn’t passport-bound.

https://thehiddenclinic.substack.com/p/the-price-of-a-pulse

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Wild Lion*esses Pride from Jay's avatar

duplicate dawns

.

age folds into ageless

like a shirt never worn,

creased only by memory.

.

lust was a breakfast word—

burnt toast and silence.

six hands, maybe nine,

lifting the same glass.

.

dinner spoke in tongues

time forgot to archive.

.

the past dated me once.

I wore blue,

state-issued,

village-stitched.

.

never said always,

and meant it.

.

rain rehearsed sun

behind my eyelids.

a kind of performance

with no witness.

.

I mistook stillness

for meaning.

.

a duplicate dream

left on the platform.

.

I carry it like

a letter never sent.

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VersAnnette (Verse) Blackman's avatar

as if all

the lives i’ve lived

could condense

into this one moment

this fresh breath

this staggering wind

i summoned the rain

to wash away wounds

with space and time

holy scars so divine

yet invisible and unrelenting

and ain’t it beautiful

to embrace growth

and age with grace

to devour dinner

as the winner of

the race?

how grand is it

to fail six different ways

only to be resurrected

by the soul of seven?

to bask in the glow

of completion

even if has left

your heart depleted

and defeated

it was only a moment

in the grand scheme

of things and dreams

always seem to

find a way home

i have finally come to know

you cannot duplicate love

with lust and trust issues

misusing influence

and being indifferent

allow compassion

to disrupt cynicism

catapulting you into wisdom

and higher vibration

let healing be the state

you consistently

find yourself in

and never hesitate to

to begin again

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Trusanda Lyons's avatar

Dishwater

by Trusanda Lyons

I love the way you pour your soul onto paper, like discarded dishwater.

Bits and pieces left to be sifted through—

some identifiable,

some no longer fitting into the lines for which they were created.

A puddle of music,

a wash of color,

a deconstruction of your life—

pieces lingering on the abyss,

waiting for new meaning.

Pieces once lifted to the highest stature,

now drenched and lying on the dirt.

Each beautiful and meaningful in its own way.

Nobody, not even you, gets to define your life.

Read the remnants like tea leaves,

and let rain wash the rest away.

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Cendrine Marrouat - Artist's avatar

My response to the challenge can be found here: https://haikushack.substack.com/p/maybe

@artstack #artstackpoets

Prompt words: never, lust, dinner, age, six, time, past, state, rain

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dob david's avatar

We live in an age when we duplicate the duplicate as we lust for something new in a duplicitous spiral of self infatuation

Six times removed and long since past a time of trying to understand

Living in a personal microcosm while consuming a tasteless microwave dinner

Plastic food and reality TV are the consummate evening fare and fertile ground for finding future leaders as we fumble forward hell bent on the consummation of our own destruction

Backing the backward speakers and letting blatant mistruths rule the day

The devolution of a people involved in the vehement veneration of the vile while valuing vice

Bowing to those who never state the truth as the state of humanity dissolves into a state of chaos and disrepair

When avarice becomes the reigning religion retribution will most assuredly rain down

A leveling brought about by our own hand, not some vengeful god

And all those who failed to see their own self importance and rampant wantoness will be the first to cry,

"What did I ever do to deserve this?"

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S.L. Stallings's avatar

Time stretches and slips

drops like rain

the space between breaths

age six

the door cracks open

I cannot name things that exist outside this moment

the state of my body is a secret

I can't eat my dinner and am therefore exiled to my room

relief

lust is a word I heard once

rough hands that take

this thing he calls love

this thing stays on my skin even after the water runs cold

duplicate the past into the present

like a clock spinning in circles

I will never be that child again

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DIANA ADMIRE's avatar

All ten...

Never lust till after dinner.

It does nothing but duplicate your troubles.

Since the age of six, they told me to clean my plate.

There are starving people in Africa.

I’d be happy to send them my lima beans.

Time and again I pushed past my limits,

to be sent to my room in a state of sorrow.

I wanted to be done with all things trivial and yearned for freedom.

And when it rains it pours.

Now I’m grown, alone, and yearn for those dinners

even when if they had lima beans.

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Bari Hochwald Cagnola's avatar

I'm very grateful to be writing poetry again in this light, fun way of sharing. Thank you for posting my effort.

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Jules's avatar

Thank you for sharing mine 🖤🤘😸

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Cendrine Marrouat - Artist's avatar

Thank you for the mention!!!

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Cassandra Theodora's avatar

Prose poetry doesn't apply?

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ARTSTACK's avatar

Feel free to do any form of poetry!

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Jennifer Phillips's avatar

Yay! I got a mention with my post! Gotta work on the new poetry challenge!! 🩷

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