Closely Held Poems - Poems about Closely Held

Founders Ink

...Defense of freedom
takes a courage
rare and dearly won

Through wars endured
with tyrants scourged
and despots on the run

The words in place
by Founders Ink
on parchment
closely held

A...

Moments That Matter

...We measure our life by years,
but years are made of moments dear.
To make each moment meaningful,
we must from history lessons glean.

When we look back over the past,
Few moments do an imprint...

Last Trains At the End of An Echo

...Last Trains at the End of an Echo
by Sy Roth

The Conestoga wagons littered the wasteland with their spiny bones
            in search of the comfort of others 
clattering, grinding wheels singi...

Amid the Jagged Shadows

...
"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs"- 
             Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs
   that dance upon this grassy shawl which cove...

Autumn Sonnet

...As day falls into dusk I sit alone,                                 
Among the unloved stragglers, waiting still.             
The fading sun gives way to autumn chill,
As I sit waiting, silent as...

Poets

...Why do poets take such pains to 
create something so hard to understand?
Do they purposely try to cover deep truths
with big words and fancy phrases?
Why not just say what they want us to know
a...

Robbed At a Tender Age

...She plays with her tiny fingers, closely held on the rough walls of there small little mud thatched house, her deep brown angelic eyes gazed into mine, an innocent smile, happy, blissful unaware of t...

Manic Depressive Climates

...Depression is like dying
without hope this process will end well,
without remediation
at least not for my closely held ego-identity,
and despair 
this turning inward
creates a cocoon by avoidin...

Secrets of the Sea

...When moonbeams dance upon the placid sea;
When billowing waves seethe endlessly;
I ponder what secrets the sea might yield,
Should its ageless mysteries be revealed!

Are there unknown monsters ...

To Visit Shadows

...How do I measure my yesterday's spent?
As only my mind holds them ever close.
Like buds from a rose, in silent descent,
They crumble in time, evoking pathos.

Dare visit these shadows where once...

I Refusing To Cry, You To Ever Yield

...I Refusing To Cry, You To Ever Yield

 I never went into your dark room
 never saw your silent rage
 In my mind your cannons never boom
 nor does your face ever age

 I never felt your lonely ...

My Charlie Cat

...
Upon his favored pillow, curled up tight
he sleeps through happy hours without a stir,
tail wrapped around and paws tucked out of sight,
beneath his purring ball of gray-striped fur.
Awake,...

Rose Coloured Glasses

...The fading colours in a trembling leaf,
Perhaps a portent of the coming cold,
When the heavy hand of an icy winter
Will press hard upon gully, flat and fold.

The rose’s vicious stems will be laid ba...

Chili

...I've slurped chili from border-to-border and betwixt the roilin' seas,
In fancy five-star establishments and greasy spoon eateries.
I've sampled some that has caused anxious gastrointestinal uproar...

A Second Look

...Time was, when I had far less miles and fewer oil changes, I had a mindset that there was a right and wrong to everything.  No gray, no pink, no whatever.  Serious thought about most anything resulte...

• Short Closely Held Poems
• Famous Closely Held Poems
• Best Closely Held Poems
• Read Closely Held Poems
• Long Closely Held Poems
• Closely Held Quotes