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Best Modesty Poems

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Premium Member Desires of the Heart
When my heart
was no longer content in solitude;

I asked;

"Oh my lonely heart, 
what is it that you desire?"

Softly it whispered

for her heart beats to ease...

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Categories: modesty, dream, love, passion,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Tom Cunningham Tribute
T_tendernesss and tolerance are his territory.
O_openness to all poets, too!
M_magnanimity and modesty, shine in this friend of mine!

C_compasstion and consideration, so outstanding.
U_understanding of the human...

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Categories: modesty, appreciation, thank you, tribute,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Come Walk With Me
Come, walk in the spring's budding forest with me, 
Enraptured by musical sounds of the wild, 
Where life dwells unhindered and gracefully free. 

For children...

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Categories: modesty, inspirational, nature, peace,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member As Time Goes By
Born in cloak of modesty, life toddles, yet thrives
Musing of blissful eternity in domain of paradise
Befriending and beholding its virtuous design
Facing triumphs and failures of...

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Categories: modesty, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Ebony and Ivory
Lost amongst a trillion stars.
In lustrous shades of Ebony and Ivory.
We are like the moon craving for night fall,
so our twin embers can ignite dark...

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Categories: modesty, inspiration,
Form: Verse



Premium Member I Think Therefore I Am
I THINK THEREFORE I AM


"An ounce of hypocrisy is worth 
a pound of ambition" --Michael Korda

Liberty...
This everyone's want--
stretching an autonomy to unbuckle self-discovery

I got mites...

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Categories: modesty, character, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Shopping List
"Shopping List"

Sister Kathy's going shopping and she's asked me for my list,
Needing LOTS of help, so I could not her, resist...

I have a Shopping List...

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Categories: modesty, character, friend, god, love,
Form: Rhyme
The Voice of Abiding Gratitude I Shall Ever Raise
Grace and mercy
I shall ever implore
as my soul
yields to boundless passions
crosses lines
and in dire straits
found lost.
The Hand of God
I shall ever beseech
to touch my heart
turn...

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Categories: modesty, allah, art, beauty, blessing,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Graceful
“Be like the sun for grace and mercy. Be like the night to cover others' faults. Be like running water for generosity. Be like death...

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Categories: modesty, analogy, community, judgement,
Form: Rhyme
Here In This Place Today
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Indeed, it is so far, far, far back where last I
Stood in sight of all her unnerving ambiguities...       ...

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Categories: modesty, betrayal, myth,
Form: Rhyme
Unlike Thee Athenian
Those rarer men I once fondly 
knew...                  ...

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Categories: modesty, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Love Letter From the Soul Xliii
Modesty,

In the valley of life I S.O.A.K
mirrored
in your reflection of feel

resistance rests in the wilderness
but I will not buy her tricks

I am not long for...

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Categories: modesty, love,
Form: Romanticism
Premium Member Tom Cunningham Tribute, Repost
                   
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Categories: modesty, appreciation, inspiration, star, thanks,
Form: Free verse
Village In the Valley
Village in the Valley left behind, and then it's a fine find
Mountain in the making...in the dark alleys of my mind

You're a flashlight
In the night
You...

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Categories: modesty, deep,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Twelve Angels of Beirut
The Twelve Angels of Beirut

They huddle together in the heavens
Muttering amongst themselves
Confused as any human down below

We bestow upon them the ancient teachings
Not once, not...

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Categories: modesty, allah, angel, anger, angst,
Form: Light Verse

Book: Shattered Sighs