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Best Holdfast Poems

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High Peaks Holdfast
I shift my jacket close as wind blows past,
perched upon this dull, gray massif of rock,
below the throaty call of raven’s squawk,
cannot stay long, in...

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Categories: holdfast, earth, freedom, image, mountains,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Naked To Nurture Naked, To Nurture
Naked to Nurture.  Naked, to Nurture.



Why not naked into woods?
We yank up gumboots.
Enshroud our piggies in wicking and itching sockbags.
Hoping to holdfast against the...

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Categories: holdfast, art, philosophy, tree,
Form: Free verse
Finding Ourselves
As the days grow shorter and the nights have more length,
We have more time to ponder on God and receive more of His strength.
To pick...

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Categories: holdfast, dedication, devotion, faithgod, god,
Form: Verse
Yesterday
YESTERDAY

A FEELING FREE,
COOL AIR 
SOUNDS OF GEESE,
PHEASANTS,

ROOKS FLAPPING
SAWS BUZZING
FEELINGS QUITE,
 LIKE RUSTLING LEAVES
A BREEZE NOT HERE

STRANGE LIGHTS, 
THRU CLOUDS 
FROM HEAVEN STREAMING
FLATTENED GRAYS OF LIGHT...

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Categories: holdfast, happiness, joy, love,
Form: Free verse
A Behavioral Thats Missed
I  oversees my likely  behavioral  that not controllable or not properly directed by the rightfully owner thats never been exposed to his...

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Categories: holdfast, anger, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Grandmas Hands
Grandma’s Hands


You wish me plenty good things
Your safe travels and good fortune 
I rightly claim 

Your purpose and plan you’ve acclaimed
Your poise and gentle grace...

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Categories: holdfast, age, blessing, care, childhood,
Form: Narrative
Tattooed Pedigree
"You do these things to shock me"
One of many absurdities
That mouth has hurled at me
While mine its lip is bit
Bred to holdfast like a pitbull....

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Categories: holdfast, mother,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Little Ol' Me
Above the tallest mountain
below the deepest sea
i search and wait and wonder
it's me Lord -- little ol' me.
With pen and paper I seek you
i holdfast...

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Categories: holdfast, beautiful, environment, god, happiness,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Survival of the Fittest: 'Undetermined'
The hungered in-flight spots its need to last,
The beleaguered seize every occasion,
Fittest scores a new day, other has passed,

Left to make the status quo unsurpassed,
Lost...

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© Hilo Poet  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: holdfast, anti bullying, fate, nature,
Form: Villanelle
Save Your Judgement
You'd think that it would be easy 
to malfunction as I do. 
In the eyes of those who see me
clearly one and one are two....

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Categories: holdfast, discrimination, emotions, endurance, feelings,
Form: Rhyme
Reflection
The moon is peaking thru the night
shining down on thoughts unseen
daring to reveal the great unknown
daring to haunt your every dream

Its light is tapping on...

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Categories: holdfast, faith, inspirational, moon,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Winter's Tears

Aching, trembling like the dewdrop as it slides, wistful, across a petal… down a tearstained cheek – our ancestor’s heart’s quake  ~ quote by...

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Categories: holdfast, angel, autumn, death, eulogy,
Form: Monorhyme
Shadow Run
The day, now clearer-skied and cloudy strips cruise
 in shades of deep dark sapphire and Aegean blues
  with sweeter shades of cerulean azure oceanic...

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© Dm Babbit  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: holdfast, analogy, nature, seasons, ,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unadorned
Although the rose is unadorned by dew, rain or sun… she shines still brighter when all her work is done. ~ quote by poet

If often...

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Categories: holdfast, appreciation, beautiful, flower, garden,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member Wabi-sabi
When he went away, leaving her that day,
She thought her heart would betray…
The way it hurt, the way she wanted him to stay.

When love meant...

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Categories: holdfast, appreciation, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Rhyme

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