Best Braved Poems

The final leaf falls

And I’m bare

It’s me you’re reading here

What I am I’ve always been

Even if I decorate my tree with colorful crystal balls
 
I've braved a winter’s pain

A summer’s swell

I can spring anew and I do fall 

I cry like a baby and laugh...

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Reflecting in her garden sits a winsome little maid;
She holds a purple flower like the circlet that she made
And wrapped about her braids to grace her forehead like a crown;
Her thick and shining braids that are the shade of chestnut brown.
A soft and dreamy smile...

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You read in the papers you watch on the news
Coalition soldiers amidst as the killing accrues
In these theatres of war we lose many lives
In these wars of man only death thrives

But every so often there's a turn for the good
A life is saved they couldn't...

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I knew you long before
    pursuit's intention shone,
felt you in sun's fiery warmth
       & shooting star surrender,
heard your voice on soft
  burbled whispers of sweet zephyrs
    and nectar'd songs of hummingbirds,
saw your...

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I've lived where orange blossoms fall
and flutter on the streets of Spain.
In Germany I've seen the wall,
and snow-capped mountains from the train.
I've known Bahamas' sunlight gleam
where palm trees shift in sultry air,
but Africa, exotic dream—
imagination takes me there.
 
I see the restless plains that stretch
to...

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One of the first to land, it took me by surprise
because bright sunrays glowed behind an ashen cloud.
Upon the glass-topped table, right before my eyes
this tiny pearl of wonder came to me, avowed

its army, made of millions, soon would override,
to smother every garden, grassland, bushes,...

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Mississippi Moments

History journeys along with its meandering flow as
a wide birth from bank to bank has eyes straining
trying to see across to the other side, far too wide.
Muddy rivulets stirred up by the river boats drift by
and my dreams become intertwined with what
I have read...

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Darling, you are my gift, my treasured gold.
        I braved pain once that our joy might reach crest, 
            So, now for said joy’s passion, answer bold
...

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My shining knight has come to me.
He's braved the storms and mire.
He's crossed the mountains and the sea.
My flesh and soul's desire.

And now he lays his sword aside,
no warriors to fight.
I burn as if I were his bride
and this, our wedding night.

In passion's chariot we...

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I stood amidst the maddening crowds

 drowned in cries of disarray....

 Something about this gentle captive

 Encouraged me to stay.

 Through the crimson rivets flowing

 his eyes they pulsed with love.

 And through the swarming sea of fists

 His gaze was cast above.

 They kicked...

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Twice-a-day, though sun or rain, in storm or wind or snow

                    The crazy lady fed her strays, and watched them come-and-go


She had a name for every...

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Altogether Lovely

You are of truth my love, you are of truth.
You have given me no falsehoods
or puffed yourself up unseemly for
pretense, pride and gain.
You have shared your story, good and bad.
What you say is what you seem.
This integrity stirs my passion
and your honesty fuels the...

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Reflects sadly
                                 impure air braved the mind -
     ...

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I am special, or so I thought, 
No one can understand me, 
Alone and lost, so hard I fought, 
The love of God I didn't see, 

Challenges braved, I called my own, 
None to enfold me in love, 
Perplexed in confusions unknown, 
I never did...

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The Sedulous Knight

Prostrate souls taxes, lain of blood-stained field,
still, toils an ingrained meaning they had sworn,
past distinct dead plus dying, still, naught yield,
amidst dense hearts like their steel armor worn.

Behind atoned stones built by measured hands,
preserves naught abandoned lead their resolve,
strengthen the talents, challenge tyrant...

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