Best Returned Poems

The ruination of the mighty earth
Was started when explosions rocked the sky.
Ten years of darkness followed. . . then a heat,
And that is when the world began to fry!

Soon the oceans crept upon the coastlines.
Stubble lay in fields and great trees died.
No more was there...

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you’ll never be lost
just follow the glow you gave...
i am your lighthouse.

© Harry J Horsman 2013...

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With sound of laughter in the breeze     
I knew it was spring's voice I heard            
Though years have folded crease by crease
My heart remembers every word    ...

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I prepare myself for a deep relaxing bath
but that dratted spider was out to have a laugh

As I pour scented bubble bath into the water
Spidey climbs the wall  - he’d also bought his daughter*!

He raises a spindly leg as if to wave hello
that pesky...

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An angel returned to heaven today
deployed to erase gluttonous hate
from envy's grasp love is pulled away

To bring order to disarray
supplying hope while replacing sloth 
An angel returned to heaven today

Armed with beauty, charm and compassion
pride is now faced with a trained assassin
whether with song, a...

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Adam was a husband,
misused by a wife.
He was very sincere,
and slain with a knife.
Ann laughs at his funeral.
She snickers to the bank.
She escapes with his earnings,
and leaves his life blank.
Ann fooled him for jewelry,
gained his love by theft,
and hides his secret diary,
his only possession left.
She...

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Like many merchant vessels
That sailed from our Mersey shore
This sturdy piece of timber
Can hold its own in tales of yore

A dried up piece of flotsam
Washed up on Wirral banks
Was dutifully cleaned and dressed
And a verse written on its shank

Amid the other bits of timber
That made...

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(Revised) 

He returned home from the war, but he did not stay,
For he returns to the war that he must fight every day;
He keeps in silence the torments that rage inside
As they are tethered to the horrors that he must hide.

He returned home from the...

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"GOD’S Tears Returned"



You were smaller than a particle in a Tear Drop 
when you first arrived, you returned.
The size of a miniscule of a fraction not yet
Comprehended in the power of Light
In the refraction of your mother’s and father’s eyes
LIGHT is LOVE
LOVE is LIGHT
Somewhere from...

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-Thinking of Iraq Ware Veterans on Veterans Day-

The day after the terrorists attacked our country, I joined the military and was deployed to Iraq. I fought in the desert far away from my sweet home defeating terrorists because it was the nation’s call that I...

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Lightly may the raindrops fall,
And when there be enough.
Brings life and hope and food for all
And fills our pleasure cup.

As the rain comes gently down,
‘Twill wash and cleanse the land.
Then run into the creeks and down
The rivers to the sand.

Where it once again will be...

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Ithaca New York 1969                                         ...

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Pain and struggle sometimes do take hold
Alone, terrible thoughts can take flight
Isolation intensifies, I feel so cold
A never ending descent into the night.

When a gentle gloved hand takes mine
And my pain soon begins to subside
And the darkness begins to decline
As a chaplain sits quietly at...

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It would be nice if loving hearts
Were made of much stronger stuff,
With easier to replace parts,
When they have been treated rough.

I thought my cared for heart was tough
And that he would treat it nice.
Because he didn't care enough
My broken heart paid the price.

By: Joyce Johnson

For...

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It has been many years since his daughter was lost
If he could bring her back he would at all costs
Ever since that day he has wandered and roamed
Turned his back on his family and their loving home

His life on the road left him disheveled and...

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