Best Keeps Poems

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato

Politicians keep lying
Hate keeps breeding
Jets keep firing
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying
Homes keep tumbling
Hope keeps crumbling
Time keeps ticking
Injustice keeps screaming
Funerals keep delaying 
Peacemakers keep meeting
Media keeps shocking
Propaganda keeps faking
Tanks keep bombing
Earth keeps shaking
Fear keeps spreading
Soldiers keep fighting
Widows keep...

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While moon makes place for sun
dark sky duvet pushed back
stars close their eyes

The restless few
their beady eyes
small marbles 
see all
and everything
hip ceaselessly
don't find peace

The intellectuals
philosophize the dark away
invent intricate 
solutions
to external worldly
problems
and  internal
personal dark

Morning light
moves deep inside
propped up on walls
shines a soft glow
that brings...

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Keeps Me Young And On My Toes

Some may ask why I have not bit the dust
or found that cave to hide my sad sorrows.
I'm old but my mind has not turned to rust
nor do I fail to wish more tomorrows.
When in darkest night's long crawling...

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Daffodils blooming,
Robins tweeting in trees,
Pollen is looming,
Sky falling like seas.

Atlanta’s warming -
Bless it’s peachy heart.
Isn’t it charming,
The chill will not part.

Can’t put my clothes away.
Winter keeps springing up.
My woollen socks sashay.
Taunt of sweaters: “Wuz up?”

Kids hop, skip and jump,
The joy of April,
Let go of the...

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Secrets that She Keeps

hidden deep within
are secrets that she keeps,
as playful thoughts begin
that make her passions leap.

tender thoughts of him
are roaming through her mind;
these musings less than prim
that blossom unconfined.

dreaming of his touch,
the warmth of his embrace
while held tight in his clutch,
her hands upon his...

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Poetry will not keep you warm
Not like a cat nestled between legs
But, it hunts down manic thoughts
Gnashes the static till the mind gives 
Chases a thought till claws are bloody
Keeps you drenched in sweat
Yes, she mews for attention
Till its cries grate every nerve
Till I feed...

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The love you show me,
Keeps me warm at night.
When the world is lonely and cold,
And Darkness shows His might.
 
Yet you keep my fears at bay,
And insert a little light.
The world is no longer cold,
And I no longer fear the night.
 
Safety is found in...

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When the day is put to bed
and at last you lay your cares
aside, then listen to the wind songs
playing in the trees beyond the garden
wall. A night bird serenades his lover
with his own sweet and tender melody
reassuring her that the dawn will come.
When the day...

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I  leap with joy, admit no fears,
Since God above is in my life.
I watch the birds up in the sky
And feel I too am flying.
He has lifted me from all my cares
That left me sad and lonely.

When I was sad and all alone
I was...

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At times we are on the bottom and other times , the top

No matter what we do, we cannot make time stop

Like this poem  with lines that read with a backward flow

I wish sometimes that backwards I could make time go

I know sometimes we...

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Along roads where mistral sweeps
Loneliness within ambles on
Every other step falling, keeps isolation
While, happiness continues out of sync...

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What keeps me going in these cruel days?
Feeling my dogs' warm bodies next to mine.
Reading a poem that makes my heart sing,
or one so beautiful, it will bring tears.
Talking with friends as hours pass like minutes
Laughing over an old joke we've all heard.
Reading a beautifully-written...

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My heart just keeps breaking

Staring out my window,
wondering what to do,
With this empty heart,
inside this lonely room,
I know how much I love you,
but, I can't get through to you

Chorus
So, what's it take (oh baby)
tell me, what does it take?
What do I have to do to...

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10/20/19
"Playing For Keeps"

What the bleep is up with all the creeps
And cheats
It's time to release the beast off the leash
And have a feast
Sinking my teeth
Into each, until they cease

Left out to rot, not buried beneath
The ground six feet deep
In any minute it'll reek

You're a piece
And...

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Where is the love you promised us always? Eternal love is 
cast out of heaven for the angelic it seems—Quote by poet

It burns deeply knowing our ways of love aren’t angelic
Love’s awe emerges then torn apart as old as a Christian relic
It seems true that...

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