Best Misty Eyed Poems

through a very small circle
and without reason
I once caught sight
of a magnified ship
'standing still'
out at sea

when it came into focus
it merged with the sky
that was...

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Your sweet nectar fills my cup to the brim,
I never tire of your masculine touch.
You gave me hope in love,when all looked grim,
darling you’re my...

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In starry silence and deepest sleep, 
I hold vivid memories and a treasured secret 
close to my heart of a long ago summer love. 
Ours,...

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White veil, misty eyed
in eternity he lay....

standing silent at his side
head bowed 
pain inside
her mind shadows,
retraces each day....

moments, seasons.... reality sets in.... 
a longing breath...

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Through rolling vapor MISTS I spy, a sailing ship at sea,
And think, perhaps, the Captain’s lost, MYSTIFIED as to where he be-
For he had MISSED...

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Dark, punishing days lie ahead.
       Winter has crept up once again and I'm deep 
    ...

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“Auld Lang Syne” - the most-sung New Year's Eve song

Courtesy Robert Burns
circa  (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796)
the National Bard,
Bard of Ayrshire
and the...

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She takes in strays that no one wants;
the house is overrun with cats;
she feeds them scraps - it's all she has -
but some will hunt...

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A sliver of October moon
sinks slow into the western night
and the life of a billion stars
begin to fade beyond my sight

The black curtain of night...

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The lights are on all throughout the city
The vast amount of light exists around
The fainting love spell, such divinity
A long enhanced greatness so abound

Pieces of...

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Misty eyed and weary over the gallows I blow
daunting a mere string in tow
last school bells rung
but the hallowed halls still call

Scuff marks mark my...

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dreary eyed, musky languor- tassels tight
a loose walk paraded by looser convictions
an acquaintance of that sad, lowly height
that alluded odysseys and several hymns

open window, surely...

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You turn me on, you make me misty-eyed,
My nascent science of love, years back,
When I followed you downstream, to bloom it began,
The sight of flowers...

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For My Mother

Although you are not here with me today, Mom
On quiet nights, I sometimes remember
How you held my hand and led the way ...

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It was a long lonely night at the lumber mill
Just listening to a whippoorwill 
In the dark beside a logging road.
I’ve got fifteen cars of...

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