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Premium Member Lying In the Shadows
Lying in the Shadows

‘twas only yesterday life seemed so right;
so full of color, lighting up the day,
but now a veil has covered up the light,
and turned the day a somber shade of gray.

The fields we used to roam were lush with bloom;
the summer flowers swaying...

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Categories: lying in, depression, loneliness, lost love,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Lying In Bed
Tap, tap, tap on my window, pat, pat, pat falls the rain.
Subdued light filters through the smooth fabric of the curtains.
Low rumbling of distant thunder soothes my brain.

Outside I spy the night garden, the moon flowers beckoning,
the rain's tear drops gently drip from their pink...

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Categories: lying in, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Lying In Your Arms
Slowly, the world returns
from just the two of us.
We lay here, limbs intertwined,
bodies glistening with perspiration,
gasping for breath.
I snuggle with you
and look into your eyes,
eyes the clolor of saphire,
I see an encompassing love,
and I hope you see the same,
mirrored in my own.
I can't explain this
infinite...

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Categories: lying in, devotion, love, passion, world,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Old Bones Lying In Yellow Dust
I awaken with languid eyes gazing at the passing dawn.
Strange light rays hover over ancient graves
Jestering- tormenting souls
Where spindled wildweeds grow
And sway over a dull domain, and
Under clouds with nimble fingers accusing...
pointing down. They pause to sit-
Brittled, splintered, to take a breath
Waiting to sweep unbright...

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© Dana Young  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lying in, dark, death, destiny, grave,
Form: Free verse
Lying In the Darkness
Lying in the darkness
Nothing here to see
The shadow of my lonely self
Just staring back at me

Lying in the silence
Deafening to my ear
The beating of my lonely heart
The only sound I hear

Lying here remembering
The world of you and I 
A love beyond forever
We knew would never...

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Categories: lying in, angst, death, loss, lost
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Crocodiles Lying In Wait
C	Crocodiles lying in wait
R	Relaxing, dreaming of fresh meat
0	Ordinary floating
C	Choose their prey carefully
K	Kin to an alligator?
0	Oldest kind of creatures
D	Doing what comes naturally
I	Indigenous to swamps
L	Longing to take a bite out of us
E	Every person’s nightmare...

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Categories: lying in, 4th grade, 5th grade,
Form: Acrostic



Lying In Wait
Tune frenzied
Not discordant
Fine tuned
Distance despite
Heartbeats synchronized
Lying in wait
For the union
When two become one....

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Categories: lying in, emotions, love,
Form: Rhyme
Lying In the Blackest Hour
pretender kings
in hollow realms,

sullen on iron thrones,

skeletal fish
in mercurial ponds,

eating their own tails,

fractured reflections
in shadowed mirrors,

eyes following with distorted grins,

salt stained pilgrims
passing bestial gods,

lapping blood in trenchers,

and I, what have I become?

What I have always been....

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Categories: lying in, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Lying In Your Slumber
LOVE is perfection... in itself, eager it is open... always there for another, hides
itself from no one.

Hate knows quietly fears, knows nothing of this hides anyone it can away from this.

Look around if you would... ?

It will cry out about everything that LOVE is. Is...

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© James Long  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lying in, inspirationallove,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Lying In a Very Large Bed
she was young, naïve  and spry
he was old with money 
entertaining 
and sly 
with 
he said a very  
very big heart

the maid made the bed
the master 
he said had compassion 
for his family
and others less fortunate
and out of duty
he made the maid 

the...

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Categories: lying in, abuse, betrayal, bullying, heart,
Form: Blank verse
Lying-In-State
And the world stood still
When the liar took centre-stage
Cameras flashing
Tapes rolling
Recorders battling to take down his voice…
 
They all know
That lies unending endlessly flow
From his bottomless tank
Rolling off his tongue
As a bard chants royal praises…
 
They all took it in
Clapping for their hero
Waving his hands...

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Categories: lying in, perspective, political,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lying In the Sun On a Warm Day
The roosters are in full glory crowing mode today.
Some dogs are challenging them now.
Between the barks and the ruffs and the coos and the caws
it is difficult to hear the traffic on the interstate.
An orange butterfly breezes down, seemingly from a tall oak tree.
The flutter...

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Categories: lying in, feelings, happiness, summer,
Form: Free verse
Lying In Bed Watching the Storm
lying in bed watching the storm…
hold my hand, break my heart
quiet my soul, touch me there
wild rain will consume us
ignite my passion, rest my voices
soooth the bruises, slip inside me
flashes of light fill the room
capture my breath, wrestle my tongue
touch my burning skin, heal our...

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Categories: lying in, love,
Form: Free verse
Words To Hear When Lying In Your Casket
Words to Hear When Lying in Your Casket

By Elton Camp

Lying in a casket what would you like to hear mourners say?
Words of praise or perhaps their true feelings to betray?

“He was a very good man and everyone liked him so well.
And he is going to...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: lying in, funny,
Form: Rhyme
Lying In Wait
I need to find a reason to smile again
And find beauty in a flower
	For now I only sneer at them all
	And my stare makes many cower
I want to discover my long lost zest for life
And my love for adventure to see
	Today I find I’ve little...

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Categories: lying in, introspection, lifesmile,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things