Best Acquainted Poems

I have been one acquainted with sunrise,
I have bathed in first light – then back in shadow,
I have felt tentative warm on closed eyes.

I have gazed over pink-tinged meadows,
I have passed by the swift and early bird,
And reached a hand to touch a half-lit rose.

I...

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(Poetry Form: Sonakit)  - with Free Verse, or Blank Verse interspersed between the verses of the Sonnet.

I have been one brought low in grief
my bedfellow a monstrous thief
my spirit felled by thoughts of one
whose voice no longer sings the sun

Slow rain began, plopped on...

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Let us sit for a while.
We need not touch.
No words need pass from our lips,
Yet the air will not be heavy
With the sound of our silence.
We will be as always
Two souls in harmony,
Only now-
Acquainted with sorrow....

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Graves of Pain-stakin’ Hatin’ 
I promise to never break promises…
But, time will heal a guy like me
Wounds of doubt and clouds of ecstasy – reducing to the sea of misery – seeps into me…holes of holding-my-ground-in-fear never meant anything to you…tears of cheers and mirrored...

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With Trump Were Acquainted

With Trump We Were well acquainted;
Some said that he had been sainted;
Stood on wall,
Big and Tall;
Him with Christ in picture wife painted.

Jim Horn...

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