Two Breath* Poems by Patrick T. Randolph

Flower Embrace

Dawn's fingers
Peal back birth—
Petal-kissed Sky!


Walt Whitman

Poet ghosts
on the tip
of my pencil.

{Poetry by Patrick T. Randolph}

* Breath Poems = This is a particular kind of poem that I have created which requires the reader to be conscious of his/her breathing while reading the poems. The syllable count is 3-3-4. Ideally, you inhale the first three syllables, exhale the next three and inhale the last three and exhale the last syllable. The meter is more strict than haiku because you only have a 10 syllable framework within which to work.