Best Setting Poems

"We chase unreachable heights, in the hope to find happiness,
Only to find we are still the same, because in fact we are chasing ourselves."

(Triggered and inspired by a conversation this morning between Arthur Vaso and myself)

I have crashed many times over the past five years....

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As sun sinks low at eventide 
I sit and gaze across the lea 
at open spaces far and wide
and hear soft voices calling me.

There’s something ‘bout this time of day
when curve of earth the sunlight bends,
and one by one the stars display;
a soothing peace and...

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The time has come to create
        the susok of our garden
Two pairs of hands to place the rocks
        by waterfall and bamboo shoots
Only one pair of hands now, 
  ...

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Further days are passing, lapsing long
Upsetting to unbecoming 
At dawn, always loneliness undaunting 
That continues on...
By inward breaking in

Will it ever come to fruitions end 
The offsetting, untiming, to complete unnerving
This I ask myself, as the sun and I are quickly becoming 
Sinking, drowning friends
Deep...

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**The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.** "Helen Keller"


How cheerful to say that delight fills the air,
Most magic spells ruled this elated day.
When all our family and friends are...

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Bashful in the sky,
The sun hides behind the clouds;
Rays in solitude....

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Reflections across the water draws Gracious 
on one pathway of light shimmering crystals speak 

In a frozen state of mind held breathless 
where listening to the ocean waves crawling kiss 

Capturing the seas of imagination as the sun begins setting
crowned by the clouds as she...

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"Instead of expressing exasperation, think toleration."
                                       ...

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This silhouette against evening sky
Etched into my longing eye

     That trailing gown

Coloured setting sun in shimmery
Little waves of water, and melancholy

     My feelings drown

In suffocating thoughts of loss
Such fragrant perfume, lip-gloss

     In softly...

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To prepare for the rain
Is important to every man; 
Able to meet his needs, 
Doing everything he can.

Look at the ants, 
Storing up food in summer; 
Not to be caught off guard, 
Nor hungry during winter.

But more than ensuring
A life in contentment; 
One should prepare...

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(Three Lives, Three Sonnets, Three Friends, Fate's Dark Hand)
POEM 1. Nights Were Our Time Setting Our World Ablaze
POEM 2. When Man Lusts For All, Seeking All The More
POEM 3. Yet A Cure Within Light's Truth, May Be Found )

Poem (1.)
Nights Were Our Time Setting Our...

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Setting of a dawn 


orange twilight hues
of a beautiful sunrise
take to a clear sky 


Written Jan 27, 2020
For contest “A nature themed haiku”
Sponsor- Tania kitchin...

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The setting sun is getting low
Soon it will be time for me to go
It's time for me to leave this fight
And travel to God's majestic light

I've run my race and did my best
Now is the time for a well earned rest
The time has come for...

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Abandoning the expected, you’ll find clarity in chaos,
       allowing our minds lens to transform, tune in, brighten
Believing in you is being just you, the simplicity of you,
       encumbering cobwebs prevent life’s force from...

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Goodbye

The pen is alone, even with me
Writing is a frown,
Written upside down
And yet we escape with others’ words,
And our own,
From this life into reality

From misery to what?
Sometimes love, often hate
We await our fleeing
For the reality that isn’t
From their reality that is

Books and poems save us
Reality...

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