Tag: poems
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Coming of Age – A Poem About Growing Up
Coming of Age – A Poem About Growing Up I walk alone down the streets of time,Constantly searching, yearning for a home I can call mine.But the migrant bustle, hustle through the downtown streetsMakes it nearly impossible, a distant and unattainable feat.Who are these faces that stare back at me?Why do they appear so alive,…
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Misplaced – A Funny Poem
Misplaced – A Funny Poem Just where did you run off to now? I ‘m certainly certain I left you in your proper place. Why, oh why must you always find a way somehow To sprout legs and hide the minute I’m running late? If you wish to play hide and seek I promise to search for…
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…And Then the Rains Came – A Poem
“…And Then the Rains Came” …And then the rains came, Marching and tearing up the dirt paved streets Like a herd of elephants trampling everything in its path. Brighter lightning had never flashed, Nor had louder thunder ever crashed. The storm’s wake devoured and digested the sun, Swallowing and submerging it under its pitch black…
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Umbrella – A Poem
Umbrella – A Poem The world’s troubles pour all around me, But I am perfectly safe and dry Shielded underneath the armor of your umbrella – Rain sliding down its sides like shingles Nailed upon an angled roof. Droplets of pain drip down From the edges of your cover, But I am without a tear…
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The Game of Life – A Poem About Success
The Game of Life – A Poem About Success Destiny lies outside the realms of limitations, Frolics through fields free from fear, Never is bound by expectations, Nor by the face reflected in the mirror. Duty wakes up before the rising sun Set on making strides while the rest of the world sleeps. Is never…
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The Inner Man – A Poem About Being Afraid To Show Emotion
The Inner Man – A Poem About Being Afraid To Show Emotion Can eyes hide the riversOf pain that flow inside?Can ears mute the quaking, shakingOf a heart that boomsWith thunders of broken dreams?There’s a storm raging inside the manHe doesn’t wish the world to see,So he puts on his business attire each morningAnd paints…
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Until I Met You – A Love Poem
Until I Met You – A Love Poem The world stands still when I gazeInto your eyes of blue.Beloved, love was nothing more thanA foolish errand until the day that I met you.’Twas like an emerging butterflyThe way you transformed my soul.Once inched along the ground,Now fly since you’ve restored me whole.The hands of time…
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Nature’s Spectacle – A Poem About Morning and Dawn
Nature’s Spectacle – A Poem About Morning and Dawn Cock crows resound, penetrate through dense clouds of moisture. Silence stirs. Nature’s alarm clock has sounded. Pellets of dew cover meadows in morning like a soggy wet blanket. Forests are brimming with life long before the sun wakes to greet the day. The creatures of morning…
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Something, Somehow, Somewhere, Somehow – A Love Poem
Something, Somehow, Somewhere, Somehow – A Love Poem Something about you soothes me Like a long gulp of cool water Down my parched throat. Something about me moves you, Some miraculous ability to keep your eyes Blind to my mountains of misfortune. Somehow you capture me, Lasso my heart and rope me in With the…
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Love’s Reprise – A Love Poem
Love’s Reprise – A Love Poem There was a time when the stars never shined And beauty withered and decayed, But now her love is mine – goddess surely divine, Beauty’s finest role ever played. Heart of gold, soul as old As yonder oak in forest green. Another story told, a new chapter unfolds About…
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The Streets of Love – A Poem
The Streets of Love – A Poem Somewhere in the depths of solitude There’s a searching, a seeking, An endless pursuit for meaning Among the daily rendezvous with silence And the lonely morning hangovers From drinking too many shots of unrequited love The night before. There’s Tylenol for a headache, but what do I give…
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My Love is an Ocean – A Love Poem
My Love is an Ocean – A Love Poem My love is an ocean – An endless reservoir of new hope That collects new deposits from tributaries daily. My heart ebbs and flows With tides of passion And you, love, are the moon – The great gravitational force that wields control. My waters run deep,…
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Reunion – A Love Poem
Reunion – A Love Poem From the moment your voiceFirst left your lips I knew you.I recognized you from my soul’s masquerade,Dancing across love’s ballroom in dream.I remembered you from my subconscious longings,Some pattern painted across my mindTo give me ample warning when you walked through my door.You have finally arrived,And I want you by…
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A Lover’s Journey – A Love Poem
A Lover’s Journey – A Love Poem If you offer me your hand, I will follow you Forever across fields of heather, Through the pastures of clover, And down the valley filled with bramble and thorn. Adorn your brow with freshly picked flowers, love And let us frolic beneath the sun, Entwined like creeping vines…
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Entangled in Your Love – A Poem About Intimacy With God
Entangled in Your Love – A Poem About Intimacy With God You are the cool, autumn breeze,The great mystical force that brings me to my knees,Stupefied in awestruck wonder.I miss you when you’re not near,When your shadow no longer covers meAnd hides me beneath your wings.But I seek. But I search.And you reveal new thingsTo…
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The Lamb Who Sanctifies – A Christian Poem
The Lamb Who Sanctifies – A Christian Poem What peace, what hope What incomparable growth That sprouts from the True Vine. What love, what joy To be employed – To do the work of the Divine. Oh, the rapture brought forth from your pain. Wrath appeased, the Lamb is slain. Hyssop branches sprinkle your blood…
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A Plea To Love – A Poem
A Plea To Love – A Poem Oh, this wanting, this waiting, This endless pursuing A feeling that waxes and wanes Like the cycles of the moon. Her eyes dangle like glistening diamonds, But close and pass out of sight much too soon. I squander the hours away, Smoking the days up like cigarettes in…
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Brewin’ – Poem About Coffee
Brewin’ – Poem About Coffee Dark elixir for drowsiness,Brewed before the dawn stretches and wakes.Steam rising, birds rousingSitting on the porch waiting for the morning to break. Magical, mystical potion that revives, vitalizesOn Monday morning when we’ve hadA little too much weekend to drink,Unable to move beyond the temptation of sleep. Oh, sweet beautiful caffeine,Millions…
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