Best Daunting Poems

Who waves the flaming brand? I really think I know.
Arrayed with fiery arms, He puts on quite a show.
The artist of autumn, in a dazzling display
Of sweet gums, and red maples—takes our breath away.

Summer fades to fall, trees give up their green,
Transformed by master design,...

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Shimmering sea, glimmering waves
Glistening waters, mirroring moon-glow

Beyond the beaches, coral lagoons
Mellow boroughs, dotting the shore

Rising sun, peaking through the sky
Day has arrived, ousting dark night 

Merchant adventurers, sail forth to venture
The deep blue hue, revealed to the crew

Vast is its reach, and cool the salty...

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We spoke once of our ending life
But never thought of it more until we found
Haunting, daunting, flaunting around;
Shadows dancing before our eyes,
Laughing as they planned my demise.
Passing you with smiles, they settle upon me
Passing you un-subliminally
To kill me?
But the kiss they leave upon my cheek
Withers...

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Aeneas crept into the depths
of the underground, upright
he stepped
darkly
as dead roses pressed
and she wept
(Persephone)
in the pit
(indemnity)
where shadows slept
bellowing
as bellows sing
so readily
below those mourning bells that ring
burrowed
'neath the death of Spring
borrowed
from the breath we breathe
burroughs
of departed greed
ennui ennui ennui I scream
wake up! this hell is not...

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We dare not look! 
We dare not stop! 
We dare not ponder!
Beyond the skin, to a humdrum is a no man’s land,
Build and soothed by the malevolence of such a spellbinding hand,
Forging us, shaping us,
Building us, soothing us and molding us,
Is the potter and his...

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Say goodnight & go
I'm tired of saying that I won't fall in love with you again
Who knows, maybe I will
Skipping beats, blushing cheeks
Everywhere I go there you are
Daydreaming love scenes in a corner cafe
With a weathered heart in a pile of leaves
Left trembling tectonic tremblings
You...

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"it still  petrifies  me,
even  after so  many  attempts,
the  daunting task,
of forgetting  you..
of unlearning,
your voice,
your eyes,
your kisses,
your promises..

at first my heart revolts,
but it must be done..
so i hold on courageously,
and march along..

but to forget,
i must first remember..
so, i replay..
all...

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the child within,
in times of certain incidence
will face a grown-up task
wearing bravado as a mask

yet, often, too... 
must bite a trembling lip
in lieu of lacking confidence





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sentences colors
purple pencils wrote paper
books covered in red

bleeding heart type
computer calculations
daunting papyrus

books covered in red
termites fed ate the paper
paper wrote a book

5/20/18
written words by  James Edward Lee Sr.
Copyright ©  2018...

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very
scary
hairy
airy
wispy ghosts sporadically haunting
nothing has seemed as very daunting...

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The gifts are bought and wrapped by now
So I don’t have to think
Of what to get until next year,
Though quicker than a wink

The months will pass and once again,
I’ll face that daunting task.
To wonder if I hate it, well, 
You do not have to ask.

The...

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A Daunting Mountain Slavery Raised

An injured knee suffers in times of rain.
   Seasons of counting costs raises mountains of debt. 
Yet... faith can move a mountain,
      At the expense of Love... immeasurable.

There is forgiveness, 
   Until...

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RAIN
raging
relentless

I was a small girl
amid the violence
paralyzed by the bruised skies

“I was mesmerized by the force.”

[Clarity Pyramid, two triplets and a single line (7 lines in all)]...

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Thirty-five
and facing up to
having a
life lasting
disability can be
daunting, but with hope....

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When the clouds are high up in shape. My mind is high up in resolutional escape. When the sun is overhead, the soles of my feet overheat.

The more I walk, the more the ground I track blazes up and the clouds roll in a mob...

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