Best Tunnell Poems

 Wisdom à la Sophie
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Behind calm mind can come a fear,

So conquer it, and sprightly.

A fear must not despoil your year.

Quick, quell it.  Live your life quite lightly.



1/2/2019

"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." 
- Sophie Tunnell...

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should joy or gratitude I find
and dance with them in dreams of bliss
dark anxious whispers will remind
that dangers lurk in hiddenness


12/29/2018

"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." - Sophie Tunnell...

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" We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless."...Paulo Coelho


                         Let Passion Win

A terrified heart, insecure in the mountain of...

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Fear lies effortlessly in portending wait
to bare the intrinsic risk of chance.
View it not just as impending fate
nor play its victim by circumstance...

1/10/2019
"Fear is a slinking cat I find between the lilacs of my mind"-Sophie Tunnell...

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Hidden away in the portals of my mind,
Fearful thoughts lift their silver heads,
Peering out in wonder at the ways of mankind,
Happy to stay engulfed by happiness,  not dread. 

penned 6/1/2019

"Fear is a stinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind"...Sophie Tunnell...

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Your dreams can be achieved, 
but ambitions are at times deceived 
by fear, that like an ophidian rust,
can turn your aspirations into dust

Jan 20,2019


"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind."
- Sophie Tunnell...

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Desires and hopes are strong
When plunging into a task headlong
always fear of  failure comes along
Restricting us ,for fulfillment we long. 




Fear is a slinking  cat Is find beneath the lilacs of my mind. 
Sophie tunnell...

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The opposite of love is not hate
It is fear of change, difference, or mood
It sidles with a serpentine gait
Hiding, gathering ammo like it’s food..

January 6, 2019

"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind."
-Sophie Tunnell...

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Lurking in my mind*, challenging its sanity

Attacking it by skepticism's tenacity

Toying with my intellectualism's vanity...

Fear**, I vanquish you through God's certainty.

*"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." - Sophie Tunnell

**2Timothy 1:7 For God hath not given us the spirit...

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Fear stalks indiscriminate thoughts 
camouflaged by beauty's sweet scent.

And from safe shadows, schemes and plots,
leaving no clue, where the fear went.


(Rhyme)

"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." 
- Sophie Tunnell


1/20/2019...

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An exquisite feminine beauty with overt shyness
Soft body curves with charming face hiding wishes
Lulling secret desires but withholding emotional surge
Delicately weak, can’t boldly meet the masculine urge
1.1.2019 

"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." - Sophie Tunnell...

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life is grand and beautiful
its feast lush and bountiful
the sun offers its caress
why be fearful of success



"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." - Sophie Tunnell



AP: Honorable Mention 2021

Submitted on December 29, 2018 for contest EXPLAINING SOPHIE sponsored by...

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Brittle.

Composure is a fragile thing
That should allow my heart to sing
So why when all is hearts and kisses
Do I suspect a viper’s hisses



31 December 2018
For Julia Ward’s Explaining Sophie Contest

“Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind”
Sophie Tunnell...

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Chameleon eyes of fear pinned beneath her writer's face  
is it Sophie's one demise when she writes and doesn't blink    
As the fertile seed of doubt arrives like pepper scented mace   
fear is the only slinking cat alive beneath...

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Empathy plays my poet’s heart
Most of my doubts concealed artfully
Worries play such a minor part,
As my poems are created heart-fully.


1/6/2019 	

Contest:  Explaining Sophie              Sponsor: Julia Ward	
"Fear is a slinking cat I...

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