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Thats When I Fall Down Upon My Knees, Song Version
Updated lyrics May 19,2020 to flow better.

THAT’S WHEN I FALL DOWN UPON MY KNEES

There’s no way- 
I’ll see another sunrise
My hope is gone-
as I'm contemplating...

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Categories: bleak, depression, feelings, god, hope,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member If
If you could hear echoes from my heart now,               
Would you...

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Categories: bleak, loneliness, love, love hurts,
Form: Rhyme
The Tower Rebuilt
I shall resolve to leave this
Place now...
And steadfastly search out,
Nestling between ridge and bluff
Amidst the folds of a foreign 
Land,
Several acres of unkempt ground
Fallow and...

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Categories: bleak, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Rest
Rest now
O restless heart
released in ebb   to flow

ride the other side of the king tide rising
buoyant your movement in rise with the waves
Rise!...

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Categories: bleak, death, freedom, heaven, journey,
Form: Free verse
I Slipped On a Tear Drop
I  s l i p p e d  on a teardrop and landed in her arms. She never knew how much I needed...

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© Lu Loo  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bleak, death, sister, suicide,
Form: Haibun



Day of Reckoning
Above bleak pastures,
A cobalt coliseum:
Warriors are unleashed.
·
Aggressive brave clouds,
Battle for the dominance:
Vanquishment is vague.
·
Conquest of power,
Clash of divine elements:
Battle in the sky.
·
Sun and clouds collide,
On...

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Categories: bleak, nature
Form: Choka
Premium Member A Wild Rose
This bridge has arched the lake's narrows
for a century, flanked on either side
by Autumn trees shedding their faded leaves,
blowing with the first snowflakes
across worn gray...

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Categories: bleak, death, memory, winter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Antidote
O Winter, why this desolation? Trees, once verdant now stand bare
Flowers, long in hibernation; clouds that frown with ominous stare,
Bleak winds chill the rain-soaked bones...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bleak, bereavement, community, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
The Wounds of War
Dear Mother, should my footsteps never tread
The pathway which would lead to your embrace,
Know this, though many words were left unsaid,
Your love has pierced the...

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Categories: bleak, fear, love, mother, war,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Abandon
Abandon through the flowing blue ice streams, 
          then rise to thirsty trees and fields of...

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© Eve Roper  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bleak, imagery, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Midnight Brings the Dawn
It seems that all my life I’ve seen some darker times
Now and then the times I knew were more than I could stand.
But, learn we...

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© John Posey  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bleak, introspection, life, lost, lost,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep
Soft is the pillow beneath my head
as dread sweeps over the world
Haunting dreams with chilling screams
shrill as a lonely wind

Crisp and cool is the linen...

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Categories: bleak,
Form: Free verse
Fragile Is Life
"Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger... it all fades, except love....

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Categories: bleak, death, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ageless Seeds of Simple Joys
Ageless Seeds Of Simple Joys

When walking in splatter of Spring's anticipated rains
blessed is the youth in you, if wearing no shoes;
further given if you can...

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Categories: bleak, appreciation, art, beautiful, creation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sacred Gratitude
Sacred Gratitude 
Rockin and Rollin inside my soul
Beckoning musical notes float within me
My heart surrenders and opens
Expanding

When the world outside dances in tension
Feeling bleak and...

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Categories: bleak, appreciation, beautiful, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs