Best In Place Poems

Place and Time, Time in Place
I hear the mourning dove,  her lonesome call
 cooing softly, somewhere in the shade.
The sum holds steady
 strong and blinding,  high straight up in the midday haze.
The days of summer
 creep to an end,  as August sheds...

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Stones come in all varieties of colors
Dazzling and uniting passionate lovers

Stones are what foundations are based
Through time and space many have raced

Stones come in all shapes and sizes
One can only guess of it's many disguises 

Stones make you wonder where it all started
Where they stand...

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A house is a home when love is in place 
And children are singing songs of delight.
Laughter comes squealing with grins on each face.

Parents and children with wide eyes embrace.
New hopes and sweet dreams on youngsters alight.
A house is a home when love is in...

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Is my mask in place?
Do I appear normal?
But am I their normal?
Will I pass?

I could announce myself 
in a variety of interesting ways
and explain myself by showing them
my doctor's notes

But am I not vulnerable enough?
Do I not already have enough labels?
Do I need to give...

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I am taking steps heading upward
On an escalator going down
Expending all my energy
But staying on the floor that’s on the ground

No matter how fast I run
The faster the treadmill spins
And after running for many hours
I stop just where I did begin

I am stuck in my...

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Descending war pile on my threadbare past or
I’m losing my grace, for the puzzle’s not solved or
My gallant blessing is never done working or
My ideas are like heaviness across blinding sky or
My oasis splashes upon the canvas of wall or
My sunny angels tangle out a...

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Pride will not let many see their own arrogance 
they hate to budge knowing hell awaits for the false teacher 
is it not everyone's duty to warn of the dangers 
showing some sort of remorse admitting to sin 
and seeking forgiveness  in the act...

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Such Dreams, Hold In Place My Grieving Heart


A gentle song in your voice, only I could hear
loving you my choice, losing my greatest fear 
Grabbing that light coming from your soft eyes
was touching a rainbow in clear blue skies!

Your beauty, stream growing splashing flowers
my heart...

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My only form of escape 
Is to run away 
I have been running all of my life
I run instead of standing up for my self
I run from the truth 
That will set me free 
I run from whats holding me back
And pulling me down
I give...

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The only thing I fear
is when you're not near
I cant stand to suffer through this pain
and all this stuff is making me go insane
I'm gonna do anything just to be with you
I'm gonna try to hold my ground, be bullet proof
ill never let you down...

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Jesus will give...
    In Place of sorrow, joy and peace.
Jesus will give...
    In place of fear, trust and faith.
Jesus will give...
    In place of pride, meekness and humility.
Jesus will give...
    In place of...

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A marionette
A puppeteer
By hand divine
I must appear
To stumble for
A crowd besmear
And languish in
My aging year

What joke did play
This puppeteer
To seize the strings
To watch them leer
My wooden heart
Hush beating near
In time opposed
I see my fear

What good is good
When gray has passed
And He has taken
Every last
Should sing...

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Kris, so miffed having heard Blitzen say,

"You must shelter in place, Christmas day!",

drew a sip from his flask
through a rip in his mask,

then threw every last gift off his sleigh!


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When the pandemic lockdown is over
I will be springing from my cage in leaps and bounds.
I will run down the street hugging all the neighbors I have never met

I will be driving to my grandchildren’s homes to smother them with kisses.
I will hunt each and...

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It's hard to feel like
your growing up when you're moored
- sheltering at home.

I am patiently
waiting to take the helm of my
life's navigation.

My life, so far, is
prelude - I long to cast off 
and exit the slip....

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