Best Fends Poems

Jubilation filled the room and lit my mother’s face on her 80th birthday.

Everyone she loved, both friends and family, had come from near and far away.

A huge surprise, the secret was well kept by all, even by her children, all seven!

Never had she felt such...

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Sleepeth thou darkling,

   fade....

How privy thy existence  made,

   to shade the feathered extremity

   thy plumage gave;

   a kiss unto pools sleeping

   white at noon....

   neath bowers in waking rain,

   through...

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Expectations brimming.
Nostalgia of my hurt.
Dismantling my mind.

My love was sincere.
I did not know to loll.
Just simple minded me.

The earth my solitude fends. 
Sky my dreams suspend.
Breeze consoles my soul.
 
Gently catching my fall.
Tears forget to weep.
Heart's memory asleep.

My heart continues to beat. 
An involuntary feat.

I...

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In the icy white living mists, in the grayness 
Rising up around the olden mossy stones
I hear them calling through the smudging grey veils
That separate this world of unexplainable sadness
From the unknowable, from the unknown
They say the raven,  wisest of the birds,
A spirit animal,...

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She's only 9 years old and cries out in despair.
All she wants is for her mum to be there.
Her dad has remarried and doesn't give a damn,
But he puts on this façade that he's a great man.

“Dear God,” she's asked, “why me?” as tears stream...

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Off a righteous God America stop the persecutions
We are due out love from you; Stop the profiles 
And stand in our shoes and skin for a while, now, How would you feel now?
Situations where people acted as if they were suspicious of you, Because of...

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Far from the madding crowd
I treasure the myths you gone through
Once I walk down the streets of legends
Even the weeping dusts reminds me of 
Bloods, who immolated their lives to you.
 
Oh Calcutta! You live with a pride
For ages you are loved
They valued glory above...

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Life was holier then when younger, 
opened gifts at Christmas, I toyed
beside the shelter of my father.

Faith in the world was stronger
when what little I knew, relied			 
upon the lies he told me when younger, 

For as the hand of God, come under	
a cloud to...

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She is a loving friend
Who loves me without question
Till the End.

She keeps me safe 
and sound
no matter where I'm found

She wards off attacks
without looking back

She fends off bears
without any cares
keeping me protected

She is my Bee
My loving Aussie
Who I keep Protected...

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Flames from numerous lamps flicker, refusing to die
Like shimmering flakes of gold adorning the night sky
Burn on, shine bright – shed some cheer in my tired life
Illumine with your light, let peace reign in place of strife
Let joy return to eyes which have often cried
Cleanse...

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A defenseless seed planted in spring's tempestuous furrow
Nourished with fertile juices; warmed in caressing burrow
Escaping subterranean cavern into formative strand, roots still 
shallow  
Sprouting into a strappling seedling that doth hope, promise bellow

In sweltering, summer haze; tender stem bows and bends
Strong, directionless winds blow; the...

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Inhale,

Exhale.

 

Numb to sensation

Emotionless pulsation

Travels up the spine

Tingling, stinging divine.

 

My own frailty

Does not betray me

Push the envelope,

Tighter, grows the rope.

 

Play with fire,

Dance on razor wire.

Unstoppable ignorance

Furthers the always expanding dissonance.

 

Just breathe in the smoke

There’s no need to cope,

False stimulation

Fends off foretold trepidation.

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Those Left Behind

Woe, the days have come undone
Many people on the run
Everyone fends for himself
Caution stashed upon the shelf
Rockets crashing, gunshot sound
Where’s the peace that I had found
Seeing, knowing what’s in store
Conflict, fighting growing more
Every day a brand new test
We cannot run with all the...

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So pretty wrapped in thorns, my dearest rose.
A dish, adorable, a pitbull — small. 
She fends off fiends with nettled hands propose.
All pluck, with red stripe lips, sparks Springlike drawl.

Afresh in scent and velvet soft array,
blue bruise of her ornamental chamber.
This Cleopatra tease does make...

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Keeper of the Flame

Flame born in Genesis’ labors
 Springs from the eternal parent’s word,
Image of the ever present truth,
Soars above impotent earth
Lost in the swirling numb abyss
Fragile fire kindled by a vision’s flint
        Bright vow intoned grows a...

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