Tag: relationships
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The Siren’s Song – A Poem
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The Siren’s Song – A Poem Standing in the shadow of sullen memories My mind rocks, crashes, splashes Like the roaring waves of the open sea, Bound within chambers of emotion – Locked within the prison cell in which my heart has sentenced me. My heart moans, mounts up upon scattered fragments of possibility But…
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Stutter Step – A Poem
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Stutter Step – A Poem Like a quick, passing glance The foot falls of our dance Stutter and come to a halting screech. Not through random chance, Nor matters of unforeseen circumstance, But because you refuse to leap. Leave matters of the heart to faith. Believe and dream in the life that awaits For you…
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The Trouble With Love – A Poem
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The Trouble With Love – A Poem Why do I continually let people into my fragile heart Who have no business being there? Why do I continue to trust in the promise of love When it only breeds deep wounds of despair? “I Love You’s” are thrown around like hellos, Promises given without the trace…
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Unconditionally – A Poem About Hard Love
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Unconditionally A Poem About Hard Love Perhaps we have been prepared to believe that love is meant to be easy. Perhaps we have been convinced we can enjoy the spoils of war without a fight. But true love suffers freely, merely for a chance to behold the light. Perhaps we believe that we can reach…
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Passion’s Answer – A Love Poem
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Come lay down at my feet, Come sweep away the pain that follows me, Haunting me wherever my restless heart roams. Fix your gaze upon my soul, Look in its mirror and see its reflection shows you, And see that its essence is true. Let me tell you my tales of unwritten stories And the…
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The Leaves of Autumn (I’ll Remember You) – A Poem About Lost Love
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The Leaves of Autumn (I’ll Remember You) – A Lost Love Poem When the fireflies bring their dances to a close over the meadowAnd the leaves of autumn change their hue,I will look out my window, love,And I’ll remember you. That twinkle in your eyesWill bring a smile to my face,But sadly my memories won’t…
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If Only … – A Love Poem
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If Only … – A Love Poem If there was a way to pluck my beating heart from my chest, I’d let you have it. Just to give you the comfort Of knowing you could crush it at a moment’s notice, Just so you wouldn’t feel so vulnerable, so weak, so full of fear. If…
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Betrayal Burns Like A Bonfire – A Poem of Love
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Betrayal Burns Like A Bonfire – A Poem of Love My heart is burning in the flames of betrayal – Scorching like a fiery furnace stripping away metal, Bubbling like a boiling brew over a kettle; Anguish stirs within. Oh, this wretched weakness, this bitter sin That I allow my anger to smolder. Steam sneaks…
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The Tinman – A Poem
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The Tinman – A Poem Your beacon blazes with the firestormOf a thousand pyres.In your eyes I find the fires –Smoke signals that rise to the heavensAnd lead me on a journeyOut of the confinement of earthly shacklesThat have clanged like lonely church bellsRinging in the early morning,Beckoning for deliverance around my feet for countless…
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Until I Met You – A Love Poem
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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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Love’s Wings – A Poem
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Love’s Wings – A Poem Imagine my surprise waking to findMy arms covered in feathers – now fully supported wings.My voice like the sweetness of a sparrow,Bellowed from a passionate heart that sings.I flew through the sky with a lightnessMy mind and body ever knew.For love, my burden was liftedThe day that I met you.The…
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Storms – A Love Poem
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Storms – A Love Poem I am blown by your gale, Caught up in a tempest My heart is unable to resist. Never has it known a love like this Whose storms of passion Leave me defenseless. Your rains hail me from afar, And the eyes of your storm summon me. My soul is a…
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Love’s Admittance – A Love Poem
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Love’s Admittance – A Love Poem A line in the sand was drawn – Some invisible wall designed To keep out the pangs of love. But here you stand Unscathed by my defenses, moving freely Around the interior of my heart. A thief I would gladly capture and exile, But your garb is whiter than…
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Something, Somehow, Somewhere, Somehow – A Love Poem
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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
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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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Free – A Love Poem About Being Yourself
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Free – A Love Poem Just when I thought I’d seen it all, You burst onto the scene And shattered my expectations within An hour of your spirit’s introduction. Since my first glance there has been no reduction, No doubt that left me questioning my desire for you. My passion is a steady rising –…
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My Love is an Ocean – A Love Poem
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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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Love’s Sacred Rite – A Love Poem
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Love’s Sacred Rite – A Love Poem Lie down beneath the moonlight. Celebrate with me in love’s mystery tonight. Shake the dust of past experience from your clothes And lay on me, my dear, your lonely woes. For I want you and all of you – Not just the pretty parts past loves knew. I…
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