Best Keep Back Poems
I see you bent low
Your head in your hands
Tears dropping on the table cloth
The heavy sighs that no one can hear
Fill my ear
Even past the wall
Between eternity and finite time
I hear
I see
Your guardian angel is near
My orders from the throne
To protect you from harm
Physical….spiritual
To guard your steps
Yet...I see you have not walked
For many an hour
You have been glued to that spot
Unmoving
Only knowing that your universe
Is caving in
Forming a black hole
That is sucking in your soul
The decision is mine to make
I have no time to hesitate…
Overstep my bounds?
Or just hover and watch you drown?
The room fills with light
As I materialize
Hiding my wings
Not wanting to shock you
Not in your present state...
But you are too far gone to see
The gun on the table…ready
So, with one hand I touch your face
With the other under your grizzled chin
I make you look up at me….
Your eyes fill with wonder
You blink away the tears
Trying to focus
Trying to grasp the reality of me
Before you have time to question
I close my lips on yours
And breathe into your mouth
The eternal qualities of heaven
Peace, joy, love and light….
A lingering kiss of life
The moment where heaven and earth collide
And I unfold my wings and envelope you
In a cocoon of heavenly wonder
I enfold you
I feel your strength returning
I will not let you fall
I have heard the unspoken call
Of your bleeding heart…
And as you reach your arms around me…
In that moment…I’m gone
Clothing myself with invisibility
Yet…. just as near
Unseen to your mortal eyes
But as real
As the erratic beating of your heart
I hover near
You exhale slowly
Your breath is on my cheek
The light dims
And you open your eyes
Wondering what delirium
Has come over you
Yet there….there in your hand
A token of the encounter
A white feather
That glimmers in the night
Against orders….
I will stand before the throne
And try to find the words to explain
This strange act...
I could not keep back
I had to guard your life
In the only way I knew how
In that unearthly moment in time
I will find the grace to answer
My reward… the look in your eyes
The radiance of your face
The knowing smile that reveals
You are worthy enough
On a dark and hopeless night
To be kissed….
By the lips of an angel
A guardian angel of light
For Skat's Angel Contest
Categories:
keep back, angel, universe,
Form:
Free verse
The power is out
but rather than pout
I'll sit down and write a few rhymes
It makes me so happy
to write something snappy
when life throws me lemons or limes
My eccentricity
denied electricity
comes out in the open to play
Without hesitation
my imagination
shall leave quite a mark on this day
When out of the norm
one still must perform
to keep the mind sharpened and clear
For when you stay focused
you'll keep back the locust
from turning your peace into fear
The lights are back on
and the silence is gone
the hum of my fridge is so nice
Out of rhymes I have run
so my poem is done
and it came at a cheap enough price
Categories:
keep back, humorous, light, poetry, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Your punishing look;
With such venom in your eyes,
Casts dispersions upon my character;
As if my entirety you despise.
Though my error was one of innocence,
Under a rock I wish to crawl.
Your punishing look;
Can no pleasantries you recall?
Your questioning look;
Causes me too, to doubt myself;
Perhaps indeed my motives were flawed;
Maybe I need some psychological help.
Why do I do the things I do?
I hate disappointing you so.
Your questioning look;
Just what is it you want to know?
Your forgiving look;
Softens the hurt I feel inside,
I have prayed for your forgiveness;
I didn’t mean to make you cry.
I know I’ve learned a lesson
That I’ll remember through the years.
Your forgiving look;
Does it help keep back the tears?
Your understanding look;
No one else knows me like you do;
You know that I’m not perfect,
But mistakes don’t mean I don’t love you.
My heart is in the right place,
It’s just my head that's out of whack.
Your understanding look;
Can you please not take it back?
Your loving look;
Returns to your eyes eventually;
I consider myself a lucky man
Every time they stare at me.
I will do my best to ensure
I give no more reasons for the other stares.
Your loving look;
Can I take it with me everywhere?
Categories:
keep back, lifeme, me,
Form:
Verse
Keep back
You are an object in my rear view mirror
You may appear closer than you are
Keep your distance
Sudden breaking
This vehicle is reversing
This vehicle is emptied overnight
Categories:
keep back, humanity,
Form:
List
Perhaps, I might be blind at anytime,
The present, I know, I'd beaten the time.
Though then, I was down in the dumps
Now, I cocks an ear and eye at the pumps.
Now, I'm not living in cloud cuckoo land,
I behold facts in what is my hand.
Power shouldn't hold onto word-smith,
But should be based on the worldly-wise,
With the think-thank aides and not filth.
That 'll keep cries in check for the rise.
If you can't beat them, convince them
And not to turn your back like Satan.
Set the pace for those at the helm
And don't keep back plans as though isn't your clan.
Categories:
keep back, brother, caregiving, courage, dedication,
Form:
Quatorzain
My unbearable pain tries to choke my soul
Trying to take over
Trying to swallow me whole
It mangles everything that I ever believed in
Making me think
Think that I committed a shoddier sin
It tears at my heart
Till it pours crimson red
All the memories raging through my head
Being in a act, like putting on a play
Screaming the words,
That I will never be able to say
Trapped in this bleak depression state
Try to block it all out
The cold, the tears, the hate
I watch helpless as the days march on,
Watching it all wither away
To be forever gone
Draining ever last bit of happiness and hope
So hard to keep back the tears
So hard to try to even cope
Slowly creeping into each and every vein
Beating me down
Just pouring like the rain
Wonder what the future holds for me
Afraid to look ahead
Just to even peak and see
That it all just got worse from the start
Couldn’t stay in control
Everything just fell all part
They all think my life is peachy keen
They don’t know what’s going on
What all I have seen
It seems I have it made but I hide it with a smile
This feeling never meets death
It’s been lurking there for a while
Can’t escape this empty dreadful fear
Don’t leave me alone
To yell those words I hate to hear
Take me apart piece by piece
Just wishing one great day
This pain will all cease
Laying in bed to think of a cold way out
But their hearts are like stone
Love, ha, I doubt
They took away everything that meant the most
Wish that this was all over
That this would all just coast
Mirror, mirror, on the wall
Is there anyone there
Anyone that cares at all
I go run away to my hiding place
To get away from everything
Away from their relentless face
All these thoughts just torture me
Leaving me here
Open here for all to see
Just cut me up with the jagged pain
Barely gripping reality
On the verge of being totally insane
Categories:
keep back, angst, lifeme, pain, me,
Form:
Rhyme
Stop South Africa now
The mirror never lie
In your reflection
Right in front of your eyes
All you see speaks
that face right in front of your view
Shows who it is you see
So when you look in the
Mirror
All you see is you of you
To that king
Some where in South Africa
Please look in to the mirror
What you see might make
You see again
Remember the mirror don't lie
After all this words gone wild
To the minds of hates from you
To the streets of South Africa
Your face it speaks
On the foreigners life's
To the people of South Africa
Is good to be your brothers
Keeper
No injustices in this proverb
So keep back those stones
Oh keep behind all those axe's
Keep away all those bullets and
Guns
Keep calm and let not your lands
Burn with hate
I thought it already had enough
Stains of bloods from the times
Of Mandela
Oh brother why all this so called
Xenophobic attack
Oh what a calamity
Sorry I disagree this acts
For it cross the line of humanity
Oh stop please stop
The mirror never lie
At the end of the day
When after you finish
Killing and destroying
Then I wonder what
The mirror tells of that face
You see right in front of you
If you still have a heart
You will hear those souls
You slain after you
For the mirror don't lie
Tell the king I said so!
Richard Nnoli
Categories:
keep back, abuse, africa, anger, dedication,
Form:
Epic
A biblical woman
who sold a possession
She wanted more money
kept back part of the price
agreed with her honey
A biblical woman
She lied to keep back more
did not lie unto men
but she lied unto God
She fell dead in the end
A biblical woman
Putting on a facade
Pretending before men
But God does see it all
She thought that she could bend
A biblical woman
dishonest act exposed
She did not meet her goal
The story can be closed
Categories:
keep back, devotion
Form:
Free verse
Spring has spent her youth
her hours have swiftly gone
summer comes burning like an aching tooth
Dusty wind blow softly on
Keep back the blasting heat
that leaves no stone to rest upon
the very earth burns the feet
Dusty wind blow softly on
Gently kiss one last spring flower
bury her seed before your powers wan
awaiting silently some spring shower
Dusty wind blow softly on.
Categories:
keep back, earth, seasons, spring, summer,
Form:
Verse
Heaven kisses earth
In Holy refining Fire
Here you bore me
At the foot of the Cross
Your blood flowed
Washed me
Here you gave me birth
In such travail
I know not how
You could have borne this anguish
This excruciating pain
My pure true - Turtle Dove
You willingly laid down your perfect life
Allowed them to take away
Your heart
The place of Your Sacred Flame
It was this that released me from
Hells domain
So holy is your love
So fervent is your desire
For my heart
Can I keep anything back from you?
Your eyes are like dove’s eyes
Imploring
So soulful
So earnest
So fervently concerned
Lest I be lost in Hell’s desire forever
No!
There is nothing I can keep back-
From You-My darling
My one and only true love
I am won by your pure Love
Forever
At the secret place where we met
The place where heart and heaven meet
The place of your earnest Love
For my soul
The Cross
Your total commitment
Has won - me
I am yours- forever.
©? Brenda V Northeast 15th January 2012
Categories:
keep back, death, faith, forgiveness, love,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
eyes hurt
but cant stop moving
clicking fingers
send letters sprawling across
too-bright screen
knew it would be like this
tonight
nothing to do
but wish someone was here
to be awake with me
in three hours
it will be a full day without sleep
sleep
sleep
dont need sleep
and conversations had
at 5 o'clock in the morning
only end in the tears
i've been trying to keep back
for the past 2 hours
and hurtful words
start to pull me
into their riptide
as the sun gets
farther from setting
closer to rising
never see this coming
happiness vanishes in an instant
and loneliness creeps in
to fill the cracks
between the shattered
panes of my glass heart
and this poem is
my mind now
at its most sparse and blunt
also lyrical and melodramatic
fragmented, slightly askew
and lyrics from a childhood
never lived
come to haunt
in this drawn-out witching hour
"(night lights the room)
day comes to break
(my eyes fight the moon)
too much at stake
(too dark/bright to consume)
and i find out too soon
i'm still awake"
i
want
sleep
but fear fills
at the thought
of closing eyes
and surrendering consciousness
don't want there to be a next day
so this one won't end
i'll activate
and reactivate
memory-inducing tendencies
while words across room grow blurry
and i stop caring about discomfort
want to call
but afraid
i'll feel the worse for waking
he who can sleep
and sleep soundly
and i don't know what i'd say
if i called
anyway
this is my head
i have no more inside
while what is inside
has no way to get out
headaches do not help
insomnia.
Categories:
keep back, confusion, life, time,
Form:
Lyric
Oh oh oh
Do I love my soul more than my heart
Does my love spill over the top
Will the blood flow continue to drop, stop
I am alive
I am alive
I like to use words like victory
I like to use words like I'm sorry
I like to use words about heart
But when I stop my talking I am wroth
My mind turns straight to soul
As my temperature begins to boil
People around me say what's up, oh!
I'm alive
I'm a!ive
Do I love you're so more than your heart
Do I love your soul more than your heart
I like to hang out with John I like to keep back with Jane
But when left alone my mine turned straight towards the soul
What's wrong, what's going on
But I just think back to the song
And I'm happy once again cuz I got Jesus
I am alive
I am alive
10/18/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr © 2020
Categories:
keep back, analogy, engagement, heart, how
Form:
Lyric
If Allah do any harm to you
No one else but Allah can remove it
If He wants to do some good to you
There’s none to keep back His favors a bit
He gives it to the servants of His liking
And He is the Most Forgiving Merciful Being.
Categories:
keep back, religionallah, allah,
Form:
Free verse
Everybody, except the not to be quoted
are no longer
so when above
Sitting among, resting along
Gather round, find some good static
half the world thinks them otherwise
consuming quickly, noticed for awile
Easy to do
Nothing else to be done
then forget how to live
play prepare God save you, says the citizen
is something to be coming out now?
tickled baptized corpses clutter ....for you
how about the idea of maybe
...maybe all in error are energizing
Removed for relaxation
going unrepresented
I cant take my eyes off of
Everybodies got a famous first name!
If you could stop that continue with this weigh in
AFTER THIS!
to hear your sounds
herd off you , stray all sheep
wont help to abide
never an adequate outside
partake over & over
ahead of others decayed,
but included in heaven....never well put-together
Keep back collapsing caved souls
say, how do you express that everday
away from the more likely
up come the destruction of the sun
what makes you laugh more than
you DO want SOMETHING
what an innapropriate time to crave a milkshake
Categories:
keep back, history, inspirational, time,
Form:
Not a day passes by without my shedding a tear
For my precious mother who left me more than a year.
No one can replace her now that she has gone away
Making me wish that there were no 24 hours in a day.
Without her now my life is never the same
How I miss her sweet voice calling out my name.
When I look at her smiling picture on the wall
It seems as if she has not left me at all.
When I kiss her photo before going to sleep at night
It makes me keep back tears that are difficult to fight.
The pain was not there on the day of her passing away
It is there now when without her I have to live each day.
Categories:
keep back, mother, me, day, me,
Form:
Ballad