Best Granted Poems
Don’t take for granted the love of this woman,
the wonderful one who has stolen your heart
Cherish your every moment together,
miss her the hours that you are apart
Stand and protect her in armor clad fashion,
show her the sun when there’s rain in the sky
Walk hand in hand down the path of affection,
take to the clouds as the two of you fly
Stay by her side when her worries start growing,
give her a hug just to show that you care
Tend to her dreams so her world can be magic,
hold her so close in these days that you share
Whisper soft lyrics as melodies linger,
paint her the sunset you see in her eyes
Promise her all she could ever imagine,
pen her a poem of romantic sighs
Conquer her fears when her teardrops are falling,
caress her skin that is soft to the touch
Kiss her with passion between those so tender,
prove to her always you love her so much
Don’t waste a minute, the future is waiting,
now is the time, it’s not too late to start
Don’t take for granted the love of this woman,
the wonderful one who has stolen your heart
In you alone my mind is rest
For from only you I seek comfort
In my back and front
You're the ultimate strength
And within my voicing
And all my day's doing
I glorify you
Why am I fill with gloomy gladness?
Since whoever believes in you
And dwells within your words
Shall swims in extremity of blissfulness
The low high door of progress
Which I all the time knock
Since you own the key to man's good luck
Let mine be opened wide as you spread soil
Since the truism is you own all
And you're but one
That dwells high above the horizon
And having vast eyes that see entire
Since you know of unspoken words
Beyond imagination of it thinker
Let all my wish be granted
Since you're a man and a woman
Although we predict you're a man
For all man is head or front
Since you're the oldest
That no one ever sees
Only know who you really are
Bless me with unending happiness
Since you're the world's ruler
That rule lives beneath the water
And lives upon the ground
And lives within the air
And lives high above the heaven
Rain upon me your grace
And drench me with goodness
Rain upon me your grace
And drench me with goodness
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I took the sun for granted,
when I saw it in your eyes
For nothing was more magical
on any dawning skies
Reflections filled with wonder,
tinted shades of sapphire blue
A captivating vision,
so enchanted was my view
For even when it’s cloudy,
chilly rains fall from above
The heavens hold the wishes
of your never ending love
I took the sun for granted,
now no need for its display
Your beauty is my sunrise,
every morning, every day
~
Take Me For Granted
Maybe I'm just crazy
or my views are slightly slanted.
But I love when you don't have to ask.
When you take me for granted.
I need it when you're needing me
when push comes down to shove.
I love when you take it for granted
that I'll show you my love.
How when you know I'll be beside you
and I'm not afraid to fight.
And how you take it for granted
you'll be loving me tonight.
Go on baby you can look away
the seeds already planted.
I love the way it feels to me
when you take me for granted.
Not everyone will get this poem.
But those that do, have known love at a depth not everyone will ever see.
They've been hurt. Taken advantage of and they have been betrayed.
Still they have known love.
They were open to it. They've been warmed by it's fires and chilled by it's North wind.
They've flown where eagles fly. And they've crawled through hell and back.
None of it for them but for one they loved.
Because if you know love, you soon find that it's not love until you give it away.
Edwin C Hofert
I deferred the words " I love you"
Until the morrows light.
Words, that from my heart,
I felt impressed upon to say.
For sure, "I love you",
Would have best been said that night.
Still I reserved ownership,
For perhaps some abstinent day.
Instead, from my vast reserve,
Grating words were launched to flight.
Words that once I'd spent,
Could never be recanted.
I had failed miserably,
At living life in the moment.
So, doting on another days sight,
I had taken our time for granted.
The next day's sun, I found,
Rose not for both alike.
Albiet the sky was blue and bright,
My day was overcast.
For from my life,
I allowed to slip, a love untold,
Now I'm forever yoked with regrets might,
Hard and fast.
Regret is felt always when it is too late.
At the end of day, when the sun sinks low
and my love whispers 'good night' in my ear
I see in his eyes, silver moonbeans aglow
and know all I'll ever need is with me here
It's a magical moment when I catch him staring
a look of want smoldering in eyes, hazel green
It leads to tender caresses and intimate sharing
and the moment he calls me, "Sweet colleen."
How deftly he brushes clouded skies away
In a rainstorm, he invites me to dance
We laugh like children, 'til it turns into foreplay
Emotions ablaze in a night of romance
I'll not take those silver moonbeams for granted
for their glow has a rival in my lover's eyes
Each night he guides us to a world, enchanted
until dawn softly colors the morning sunrise
~Inspired by 'I Took the Sun For Granted'
a romantic interlude by Chris Green
No sound of a voice could be heard
The sight of the Self quite blurred
As silence into disarray dissolved
And no single truth could be discerned
I need to rise above all that I feel
Reach an inner state of mystic zeal.
*****
A busy bee and a word weaver
Now body feeble and in fever
I could hear the voice of pain
To soothe the aches was in vain
Like a breath caught by the flame
I gasp a fervent prayer and call His name.
*****
The silence, now I broadly see
The pain has been awakening my esprit
Opening my heart to a decryption key
God’s grace and blessings a sea
How wouldn’t I pray and praise?!
As my soul with a granted life rays..
Easier Than Loving Me
You could steal a star out of the sky
make rain fall upside down.
Or sit yourself in a corner
in a building that's built round.
You can rope your own tornado
or walk across the sea.
You could dig a hole to China
easier than loving me.
Something strange about me
nobody wants to stay.
They're all gone tomorrow
that's standing here today.
Count grains of sand out by the shore
eat ice cream in the sun.
Stand alone against an army
live your life without someone.
Make your way to heaven
without taxes, without dying.
Or be the best in this whole world
when you weren't even trying.
Force your dreams to all come true
even those not meant to be.
Or tame an alligator
easier than loving me.
Edwin C Hofert
You call her without warning, late one Friday night,
She says “Give me half-an hour…,” and she leaves on the light.
‘Comes the morning after, eggs and bacon, coffee black—
You’ve taken her for granted, but she always takes you back.
She isn’t quite as flashy as those others you prefer,
But like some lonesome boomerang, you return to her.
She’s got old-fashioned compassion, that these “Nineties ladies lack—
You’ve taken her for granted, but she always takes you back.
Could it be that she loves you?
Or else got nothing else to do?
She understands you like a sister—
She’s the best friend that you knew.
Now the twisting road is narrow, when the years come crowding in,
And you look inside your glass, and see the man you might have been.
She’s got two children—she’s got a husband—and you, you’ve got the railroad track,
You’ve taken her for granted, but she always took you back
Until she found somebody new…somebody true.
How street lamps cast a pallid light,
Which bleeds, through this angst I bestow
On thoughts dim … flamed by an invite
To leave a dwelling, soul of woe
While ambling far one rose held tight;
A wish faint and falling quite low :
The smudge of rain, its drop a haze
Which grips a widowed time’s malaise.
Could another place find my voice
Where suffering eases life’s thorns?
How tears plunge, my words cannot hoist
My wail for guidance when eve mourns
When fate, harsh, won’t let me rejoice
This new dawn till time’s grace adorns,
A rising hope , my second chance…
To dance again as years advance.
Let Your Pen Drip Contest
Sponsor: Broken Wings 5/22/2018
Theme: A wish faint and falling
Snakes in loose tongues
Proclaim one message, doing the opposite
When lie bangs and sty clangs
Identify and typify the hypocrite
Who declares faith in one moment
Swims in seas of sin
Inviting the ferment of torment
The hypocrite in his din
Can’t shove away
Despite claims to sainthood
That conscience can’t slay
As sin neighbourhood
Captures and raptures pretence
Leaving in the shell of loose tongues a yawning gap
In every single sentence
That in a loose tongue traces the map
In need of prayers
To bring about greater understanding deep within
That faith lies not in pretence layers
Concealed in a thin
Façade bereft of true faith
Where the chasm between light and darkness
Needs to lose its strength
To make a way clear to the meekness
In which faith lives
In both form and substance
Although in the end God forgives
Hypocrites whose loose tongue pleads for silence
As salvation sought
Salvation granted
For Jesus bought
Salvation for all even for tongues loosely slanted.
brighter afternoon
after the solar eclipse
four eyes put away
as couples are high-fiving
emphasizing photographs
heigh-ho back to screen
first to post solar eclipse
along with the throngs
lucky strike of sunshine gold
its older than the black hills
the sun soon will set
but will all appreciate
the normal darkness?
sunset taken for granted
without retinopathy
You think that you know me
But you don't know at all
Every day you say your sorry
After that I fall
I hate it when you lie
You think your doing good
When all you cause is pain
Just tell me that you hate me
So my life won't be in vein...
We don't appreciate electricity until it's gone.
Especially at night when our lights can't be turned on.
Most of us take electricity for granted until we have a blackout.
We don't realize how important it is until we have to do without.
Electricity is important, for many people it provides heat and cooks meals.
If the power is out for even just a day or two, it can be a terrible ordeal.
I hate blackouts, to be able to watch TV or get online, I have to sit and wait.
Please remember that electricity is something that we should appreciate.
Don't Take Her For Granted
Don't take her for granted
she's had a hard time.
You ought to know by now
she's the sensitive kind.
She cries sometimes when she's alone
and even she ain't quite sure why.
It's just a part of who she is
when she needs time to cry.
She saw some dreams all fall apart
and she's seen some come true.
She tells herself you dream of her
the way she dreams of you.
Don't take her for granted
she ain't some game you're playing.
You ought to know by now
you're the reason she keeps staying.
Her love is like an ocean
so deep and vast and wide.
Don't you take her for granted
when she can't keep her love inside.
She needs you to stand beside her
when things don't go as planned.
She needs to feel you mean it
when you reach out to hold her hand.
Don't take her for granted
when her soul starts to bleed.
If you don't take her for granted
she'll be all you ever need.
Edwin C Hofert