Best Shadows Poems

I watch
as sun slides down in the sky.
The shadows increase in length,
a dark waterfall descending 
upon the sandy beach.
Slowly I inhale and exhale,
savoring the fresh flavor 
of the evening’s briny sea.

My eyes devour 
swirls of lavender wisteria
beautifying the vast expanse
of the darkening cobalt sky.
My sweet...

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Through shadowed trails beneath the moon’s cold stare.
     Its Amber gaze: a burden hard to bear.
This feathered prize found peace in my gut
     No slumber dreamt; no answer could I get.

Eurasian owl with orbs of liquid flame
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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " 

               Samuel Taylor Coleridge


He dwells on the sound, of the leafless branches
Describes the trees, admits the guiltless eye
In conversation with frivolous jagged...

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Darkness brings the shadows
Of places I have been
Memories loom in corners
Rattling in the wind
Sometimes whispers haunt me
Never letting go
Race across the star shine
Answers left unknown
Reaching blindly through the night
Someone to hold close
Only to find vapors
Drifting down like tears
Shadows never listen
'Till the morning light
Then I'll follow...

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Our shadows were so restless
As we passed from room to room;
They pretended to be living
But they died within their tomb

 They shrank a little bit each day
When the sun shone bright above;
And both of us now waste away
In the sadness of lost love.

In days of...

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Friends come and go, but some have passed me by
as swiftly as the sun that lights my days.
They wave goodbye; I give a little sigh.
It seems I barely had them in my gaze.

Sweet friends I knew from youth. Where have you gone?
My bonds with some...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; " 

                                Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Amid the Jagged Shadows

The restless wind swept all your leaves away,
     gay colors I enjoyed every...

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"If only we choose to see"
        the invisible people,
      Who live in shadows
  The sad people with broken dreams

 Lost in a world of greed
 No one sees their needs
 As they...

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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; "
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One brilliant tranquil day, around a turquoise lake,
Autumn had come in and brightly painted
so prettily the branches of the trees.
Overhead the gulls serenely soared.
Below them, water shimmered -softly rippled. . . 
I thought how this was how the world should ever be -
beautiful and radiant,...

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Ancient Shadows Awaken into God’s Light

Underneath the deep seabed the stirring sands of time have passed on.
Ancient shadows continue to haunt all of us from the oceans’ depths,
And insidious and violent nightmares portray bloody and evil visions,
As an old treasure chest is opened and a...

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~Purpling Shadows~ 
 ( Glosse)


 ~Cabeza~ 

 I want you when the shades of eve are falling 
 And purpling shadows drift across the land, 
 When sleepy bird to loving mates are calling- 
 I want the soothing softness of your hand. 

 (Inspired...

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The shadows lengthen as comes Celtic night, 
you are in my arms at the end of day, 
my eternal beauty, my guiding light.

We shall be together 'fore soft twilight
To you I run without pause or delay
The shadows lengthen as comes Celtic night.

Love in our souls...

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Once, side by side, they walked the moonlit beach
     in silence- each alone and incomplete
in disjoined worlds- linked only by the reach
     of tiny, lapping waves upon their feet.

As silver beams of moonlight iced the ground
 ...

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In shadows deep where childhood fears reside
A father's wrath and a son's tormented life.
A torrent of abuse with a soul's despair
A question lingers heavy in the stale putrid air.

"Why was I not enough for my father's pride
Why did your love like fragile glass - subside?"
I...

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