Best Gideon Poems

Dreams of Life by Gideon Cecil 

A still sun is dreaming in the skies,
The soft wind is kissing her eyes.
Her love for me is hidden in disguise.
Love is just a dream full of surprises.
Life is a mixture of sunshine and rain,
We dream today tomorrow we...

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The sea sings her love songs again
elegant coconut trees smile in the
Caribbean sun,
Verdant trees laugh on this pristine Island.
A paradise to fall in love again.
Sea birds flutters on green coconut trees
I swim below and felt the sea breeze
the magnificent beauty of this alluring island
things of...

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“The Gideon Edge”



We walk the thin line
Alone, but in the 
crowd of humanity

We are walking 
towards
The Edge

Feeling our way 
in the dark 
fingers tracing our pasts

on walls that sound
like braille 
rattling, perishable, frail

Instincts in the 
back of our brain
bit by electric bit, 

We all shed...

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Gideon in his high viz vest
Trying his best 
To look like those 
Who graft for work
Forgetting we have a long tradition 
Of this in the North  

He doesn’t pass for a man 
Who could load a van with 2 by 4
So if he thinks...

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The macaws are singing for you in the rain,
Your lover is kissing you again.
What's all his kisses worth
If he breaks your heart and flirt?
Love is like a lost memory on the pages of the sea,
If he loves you sincerely only God in heaven knows.
Love is...

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Gideon was called by the Lord;
A champion with the Lord's sword.

Inspired by the Angel of the Lord thereafter;
Gideon built "The Lord is Peace" altar.

Gideon, not certain he was the best;
Was proved by God through the Fleece test.

Blowing of trumpets and breaking of jars;
The enemies defeat...

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The moon, a charcoal smudge, hangs low and dim,
while stars, like pinpricks, pierce the black night.
Clicking crickets creates a raucous hymn,
and katydids whir on new wings to take flight.

A yellow bulb's honeyed glow makes a homey sheen
until a timer flicks a switch turning off the...

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