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Best Stand Guard Poems

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Premium Member Stand Guard True Angel
As we worship, bring the silence
in gracious peace ring down the day.
Stay the light that's stained with violence,
deliver calm, pass ill storms away.

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Categories: stand guard, angel, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Survival In the Midst of Ignorance
My prayers are not asking you to
 
save me from my enemy.
 
My children have turned their backs.
 
They praise dance with many
 
Adversaries-
 
When...

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Categories: stand guard, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form: Classicism
Premium Member I Practice the Art of Seduction
Day in, day out… I’m here
softly walking down 
the corridors of your mind
a seductress in search of the room
where you hide your heart

The train of...

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Categories: stand guard, sensual,
Form: Epic
Sunburst - Made Into a Song
Sun brush slow as dawn's light breaks
kiss gently on this heart that wakes
warm up days   til night stand guard
when breeze blows brisk and...

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© Tim Smith  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stand guard, beauty, song,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Man's Best Friend
Man’s Best Friend

Their unwavering loyalty will never adjourn,
they will patiently sit and await your return.
They will give you their best with unending love,
they are man’s...

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Categories: stand guard, animal, dog,
Form: Rhyme



The Ultimate Sacrifice
I am the Unknown Soldier, i stand guard here on my own.
    For those who fought for freedom, but never returned home.
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Categories: stand guard, world war i,
Form: Personification
Premium Member The Hanging Tree
Dead men tell no tails, or so the winds of 
Destiny’s say.
On judgment hill from on high, 
Voices do echo downwards, as the 
Noose does...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stand guard, adventure, evil, history, holiday,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member While They Dream
Down an old country lane
Void of fortune and fame
Lies a cemetery long forgotten
Overhead, song birds nest
Lullaby those who rest
While the trees weep tears of cotton

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Categories: stand guard, grave, Lullaby,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gettysburg
Walk does he not the specter of death, 
His saith raised high, even he himself has had
Enough killing, on the battlefield of Gettysburg,
Satan screams, stop...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: stand guard, america, history, imagery, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Measures
October blows a symphony of sighs 
with blustry gusts that presage winter's bleak 
arrival as I shuffle through the park, 
kaleidoscope of leaves a welcome...

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Categories: stand guard, nature, me,
Form: Verse
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...inspired by 'Especially When The October Wind' by Dylan Thomas


 October blows a symphony of sighs
 with blustry gusts that presage winter's bleak
 arrival as...

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Categories: stand guard, on writing and words,
Form: Verse
Static
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Slandered wavelengths
from an old worn out speaker
cracking with each unbalanced bass note
Finding my brain on overload
and a slower heart beat
out of tune 

Static becomes the...

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Categories: stand guard, art,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Sentinels
Sunflowers,
cheddar-cheese petals
surrounding seedy-brown-mustard centers,
stand guard over hot summer pavement
like mighty oaks.
Laughing children
run in and out the yellow forest,
slaying dragons,
rescuing damsels in distress,
then pretending to be...

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Categories: stand guard, art, childhood, flower, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
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October blows a symphony of sighs
with blustry gusts that presage winter's bleak
arrival as I shuffle through the park,
kaleidoscope of leaves a welcome prize.
Swings unswung on,...

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Categories: stand guard, writing,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Possums On the Run - Part 3
"Possums on the Run - Part 3"


Collecting cut 
silver blue grass
carries garbage bags
green-ant bites, no siree,
this aint fun.
Stand guard, he’s the 
lawn mower Pope 
(she...

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Categories: stand guard, childhood, father daughter, journey,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs