JaceSon

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JaceSon
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Dad, husband, actor, occasional poet.

  April 2023     4 months ago

Submitted Poems 8 total

Come With Me

You have kissed my cheek to wake me from these blue rooms, and whispered softly in my ear, "come with me." It's the instant sunlight begins a drifting dance across the sky.

A pull of dreams and gravity keep me in the pillows but you insist with...

– by JaceSon P. Barrus

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Portrait

Bright mirror,
your eye can't see more than reflected.
Judgment fits uneasily upon you,
at once you reveal too much
and less than you know.

Through your lens afflictions of time,
wrinkled, bulgy, sunken -
fleshy evidence of life's push and...

– by JaceSon P. Barrus

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added 11 months ago
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Alive In The Dance Of Breathing

These are the warm days,
where she & I blur into
comfortable entanglements -
Alive in the Dance of Breathing.

Yesterday,
there were collisions of tears
and forgotten promises -
a last and fiery gaze into stolen fascination.

But now the...

– by JaceSon P. Barrus

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added 12 months ago
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Sugar Into Snow

I spin it out,
this tapestry of thought,
and swear it's sugar into snow -
Abstracted bits of memory like starlight caught
in the flame of magnification.
No more, this sediment of
smuggled bliss,
But rather time slowed
down to the sound of...

– by JaceSon P. Barrus

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added 1 year ago
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Storm In Watercolor

I remember you then,
Standing boldly against
the blaze of color licking
at your form -

And you in that simple white dress -

Crowning the horizon
in an array of windblown wonder.
You open your eyes,
deep wells into the heart of fury -

...

– by JaceSon P. Barrus

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added 1 year ago
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Such an emotionally evocative poem filled with great imagery and a sneaky point about taking time to appreciate simple beauties of the world. While I enjoyed several of the pieces from this month's contest, this was the most striking work to me. 

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