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
Categories:
tunnell, inspirational, wisdom,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
tunnell, anxiety, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
" We all know fear. But passion makes us fearless."...Paulo Coelho
Let Passion Win
A terrified heart, insecure in the mountain of unknown tomorrow..
Let Passion fly, vanquish and flee the fear of fall.
A whimpering mind, entangled in the ocean of turbulent sorrow...
Let Passion sail, conquer and reign the storm over all.
Dated : 10th January, 2019
"Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." - Sophie Tunnell
Contest description : A rhyme in four lines saying what the quote means,
Submitted to the "Explaining Sophie" Contest.
Sponsor : Julia Ward
Categories:
tunnell, confidence, encouraging, fear, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
tunnell, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
tunnell, senses,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
tunnell, conflict, courage, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
tunnell, angst, books, butterfly, caregiving,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
tunnell, fear,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
tunnell, 10th grade, angst, anxiety,
Form:
Rhyme
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 of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
January 2, 2019
2nd place, "Explaining Sophie" Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Julia Ward, judged on 1/30/2019.
Categories:
tunnell, christian, confidence, endurance, faith,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
tunnell, love, women,
Form:
Rhyme
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 JULIA WARD
Categories:
tunnell, dream, fear, hope, inspiration,
Form:
Rhyme
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
Categories:
tunnell, angst, confusion, depression,
Form:
Rhyme
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 her scented ink
January 2, 2019
Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind." - Sophie Tunnell
Categories:
tunnell, analogy,
Form:
Rhyme
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 find beneath the lilacs of my mind." - Sophie Tunnell
Categories:
tunnell, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme