Closely Held Poems - Poems about Closely Held

...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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... "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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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...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......

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...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 ......

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... 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,......

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...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......

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...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......

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...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......

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