Best Shelter Poems

I’ve been sitting here for long lonely days
In this small space that I cannot escape from.
I am one of many other dogs in their own small spaces
where we stay in a long row, all different sizes and types of us!
There are so many of us...

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Dangling from fragile threads 
soaked in suppressed emotions
I weigh my limited options
as flashes from the past flicker 
behind a barrier of uncertainty. 
In swirling mist I see your hazy 
expressionless face. I call out,
my voice cracking under the 
strain of persistent instability.
Scornfully stonewalling me
you turn...

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She wandered along the path
Picking white daisies on her way
Following the trail of clouds above
The sun spread words she couldn’t say

Her heart full of love, no-where to go
Walking beside the open fields to see
Pieces of nature blowing in the wind
With miles ahead where she could...

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Ashen was the sky 
That rejected hand of sunrise
Sullen was the heart
That stumbled in affection,

Incapable of lauding
Ruby blush of budding rose
And pink passions on horizon
Defying darkened woes.

In midst of a vibrant spring
Her garden blooms curled up
Amid hostile dry weather,

Teared-up, she sat alone
In pathos of indignation
Refusing...

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I keep tripping over hurdles
Barriers forged between our hearts
Walls of a garrisoned fortress
Lofty palisades I must ascend
without crawling on my knees

I admit my faults lie at ego depth
Perhaps it's why I expect too much of you
but I long for the affectionate touch
of your arms catching...

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Love, to you
nothing more than washed away graffiti, 
once dripping along the 
mismatched bricks of this worn facade
where tattoos mean forever . . .
even when they fade

A clutched lamppost, 
scarred and dented, a fake shade of green
meant only for leaning
and illuminating handbills advertising
high rent in...

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Been sitting here watching life pass me by.
Maybe I should get shelter from all this rain.
How do I get you off my mind, this time?
You brought me to life with all your love.
The likeness of you flows thru me like a butterfly.
I smell your scent...

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night's moonlit arbour
         laden with blooming desires,
                            lovers' secret shelter


Date...

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encompassed in the womb
through darkness, i felt touch
ethereal strums from fingers
against my unborn flesh
as a melody soothed
in rhythmic pulses
from your heart
...it's the only time i felt loved

you gave me life
taught me to walk
two steps shy of death's door
i crawled in the shadows, afraid
cowering in the...

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In a dream, I was exploring a green forest, lush and tangled with vines.
Following a path I was on a quest of some sort.  As I journeyed onwards
I stopped often to investigate a wildflower or a plant or to listen to birds
singing and chattering....

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Verse 1

His coat is torn his 
shoes are thin
The cold cuts deep beneath his 
skin
Little boy coughs small 
hands that shake
Winter's breath is much to hard 
To hard to take. 

Verse 2

Sidewalk echoes silent 
prayers
People pass but no one 
cares
Cardboard kingdom borrowed 
time
Every step is...

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Dark heart
Onyx bruises
Madd lover
Entrapment fooling
Swollen lips
Teal tears
Indigo ears
Crying years


Violet prayers
In shelters
Only light
Love weathered
Emerald eyes
Need sleep
Courageous flight
Embracing peace...

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a bus stop 
with a shelter

remote and 
standing tall

surrounded by 
bleak countryside

where no one 
lives at all.

does anyone
get off here?

just who
the heck gets on?

where does the bus
that stops here go

and where does it 
come from?...

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Rusty Finds A Home!

Rust-hued kitty’s shunned by day, ignored through the night
Unloved and discarded in a world numb to his plight
As he meows by a door
Rusty meets family Tor
Who give him a home, protection and love glowing bright
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A Psalmody of Psalm Ninety One
God is our refuge, He is our shelter
Kept safe from demons are those who’re blessed 
Beneath wings of the Almighty that cares
Spared from the snares of unwanted foul quests.

Fear not nightmares or terrors of darkness
Under presence of angels we’re redeemed
Freed...

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