Best Sentry Poems

Oh blackest night,
how elegantly you 
do decorate your canopy.
Twinkling stars 
sparkle gloriously 
in the Heavens.
Brightest yellow moon
shining it's beautiful face,
keeping watch as sentry
to Earth's mysterious gates....

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it's been two hundred years that I have stood here
Casting my silent signal on the sea
Warning those that venture near my coastline
Protecting those that place their trust in me

On this rocky crest I am the master
The crashing surf bowing at my feet
My eye guides the...

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Just as Jesus watches over you from Heaven, we will watch from here.
You kept us safe and gave your life, a debt we cannot repay.
Go bravely into the afterlife, this you need not fear.
Know that we are so proud of you and for your soul...

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Sentry is the sunset, as I de and compress
Optimism is a way to scrub the hopelessness
Perhaps I'll escape perdition with a healthy dose of beauty paste
Will insecurities vanities blind me pitifully to the incoming waste
No, this corner would not be built into the path if...

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A wee fellow, sporting an outsize bold-orange chest
  The male of the species, ever doing his best
    To protect his shyer, pale-chested mate

Back and forth struts Mr. Robin 'cross yard and fence
  Twitching and turning, movements taut and tense
A most...

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Posed such, in its formidable array
would guess that all protection in refer
not deem my soul respectively, relay
but from some archway's character of serve!

That guard of my esteem, not turning gray
is from some inner peace, not just of nerve
the loyalty I've bridged by my own stay
now...

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Grey bowed wing heron

lands as sentry of quick death ~

pickerels dart deep ....

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On this hallowed ground where brave and valiant heroes sleep

A majestic eagle stands vigil o'er each simple marble stone

It seems to sense that the price of freedom does not come cheap

They gave their all on the Altar of Honor for man's follies to atone

Its presence...

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Y!...P!M! : asked the sentry at the door of waking
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yup...past midday!
(yawning...pondering...mmmmm)
yammered past

midnight
yacking propels me
yards...plows

mental
yesteryears pathways...mountainous
yes...puzzling

maybe
yet productivity means
yachting problems

minimizing
yawls...pacifying memories
yearning...premeditations

materialized
years previous...managable
yen-pen

moment
yang potential mediums
yielding...perpetual

music...


















yelling pesters me...

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I have seen your wall
So delicate in place

Cool and rich as earth
Beneath my hand I trace

Adorn with shells and feathers
Rings intricate as lace...

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The dulcet notes of "Taps" echoed o'er the field of honored dead.
The rising moon's mellow glow upon the peaceful scene was spread.
Its rays grazed the worthy name that upon each stone was graven;
'Neath the clay lay heroes asleep in their hallowed haven.

On such brightly moonlit...

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perched on purple coneflower, red-winged blackbird darkens nest

5/31/2018

*darkens - makes less clear...

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A huge, magnificent sycamore stands
Like a sentry overlooking my yard
As towering proof that nature demands
A posture unknown to human regard
It is my home’s elegant bodyguard.
I fear a tornado’s fierce straight-line wind
Will bring this tree to an undesired end,
Toss it like a toothpick over the fence
Snapping...

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The well, worn carpet
Underneath our windows
Of our sentry post,
Through which we peer
Into the unknown
For a spectral hand,
Invisible to the human eye,
Our hearts and spirits
As anxious and worn
As the carpet worn smooth
Underneath our feet.

The fear of that hand,
Knowing that its 
bony touch goes
Undetected as it strokes
The...

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Lord, watch over me this night
As I guard my soldiers as they sleep.
Overhead, the stars are sharp and bright,
And the sky is clear and dark, and deep.

For I know that they depend on me
As I know that I depend on You.
Keep my heart awake that...

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