Best Needed Poems

To my Poetry Soup friends - this was written as a thank
you note for all of your beautiful, uplifting gifts of poetry 
and comments. Your words can mean the difference 
between a dark day and a light day ~ thank you all

The walls were closing...

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                                       When violet flames burn
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La...la..
yea..yea..

Far as long as I can remember,
you were always with me through December,
Has I walk the lonely roads of November,
I can know longer remember,
our coffee morning conversations,
our dreams, our obsessions,
they're all a blur to me now,
grief as finally won.

Never knew I needed you,
never knew I...

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You know how we sometimes analyze too much and forget to feel? 

It’s okay to feel - 
whether it be confusion
pain
sadness 
anger 
or you just want to cry - 
even the strong ones like us get lost 

we don't always say what we really need,...

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Hearing the words "touch and go,"
I sink into a quagmire of despair
Slipping and sliding on tears of fear
In a swamp of memories

I've but one brother, one sister
Artie's Covid battle unleashed ills 
Pandora's Box opened to pneumonia
COPD and emphysema

Now the reaper knocks upon his door
I pray...

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Ive forgotten what it feels like 
to be wanted, needed
He certainly does not speak of 
his need in words
He does not show it in his 
actions
Unless i am to take those few 
moments
Where he pulls me close to his 
warmth and falls asleep
Surely he still...

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Tiens mes pensées
close let your dreams lie
impassioned albeit pensive
succumb to the sultry beats
echoing across empty hearts
and within the day breeze
tomber en moi

Faraway but close enough to see
you no longer holding me
I know 
yes
I see...

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Death's Often Promises A Needed Relief

Death oft' walks paths both light and dark,
desperately shallow and sometimes deep,
riding on purest truth so eternally stark
sometimes revealed in dreams we sleep.

So often as feared as a mad tiger raging,
with fangs showing and claws so long,
oft' a remedy to...

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All I needed


All that I needed, I just couldn’t get it from you;
I gave you all I had to give and you left me feeling used.
All the love that I gave, wilted away and it was left to fall through.
It’s such a shame that we...

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It’s time now to have some fun

So less from you of the moribund

It’s time to kick our weights off, including our smelly socks

Time for wishing everyone good cheer, as Christmas is nearly here

It doesn’t matter what we think, or if mine or your feet really...

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Windows are always there for us
nearly every room does have one
should make us appreciate our lot
look out and see all that's done

Consider every room you have
imagine that there's no view in sight
no glass, not even one that's cracked
every room with no light after a night

The...

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He loved her, but could not propose. He needed a blessing or something.
She wondered how much longer they would date; it had been ten years.
I need a sign, he told his dreams nightly. He needed Grandpa's blessing.
Flock of seagulls divebombed them and their red umbrellas.
He...

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THE MOST-WANTED HEIGHT & MOST-NEEDED HEART

Do women miss out on a good man
because of height & forget God's plan? 

Most definitely yes, of course,
and shamelessly so without remorse.
I feel for such women & their plight
of not setting their priorities RIGHT. 
On a norm, everyone set...

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I DESTROY HOMES, I’LL TEAR FAMILIES APART.  I’LL TAKE YOUR CHILDREN, 
AND THAT’S JUST A START.  I’M MORE VALUED THAN DIAMONDS, MORE 
PRECIOUS THAN GOLD, THE SORROW I BRING IS A SIGHT TO BEHOLD.
IF YOU NEED ME REMEMBER, I’M EASILY FOUND; I LIVE...

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Boss
unhappy,angry
howling,ordering,demanding
outcomes,profits,disciplines,hopes
helping,soothing,smiling
smart,sexy
secretary....

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