In the darkness not a soul in sight
Outnumbered but still join the fight
All around you there’s no where to turn
It’s time to sink or swim I know you’ll learn
Stand your ground there’s no where to run
Gave it your all don’t hold back for anyone
An
Escarpment of memories
Distills in form
A different layered light
Before the storm.
I have visited vagaries
Of such places where,
Measuring worlds and
Matching faces
Upon the inward surface
Of a glassy eye
May bring me tears to cry.
To hold them from escape
I try,
But I,
Cannot be their jailer,
Stand without argument,
A drunken sailor.
Leaning on rebuke, watching them
In stronger currents,
Drawing torrents of futile resistance
Until their vision gone.
So too,
My silent shout.
Hold back the sun
The night and me are not done
I don’t need to be seen
Just sitting and thinking where I’ve been
For the night time
Most surely is the right time
As I go through the thought
Nothing more but less than I have sought
Know what I am
I don’t need to feel the grand slam
Until then I just sit and think
In the end I rise and never sink.
© Paul Warren Poetry
Your goals in life should be clear.
Aim for what you hold most dear.
Knock off checkmarks on your bucket list.
Go for it and live your dreams.
AP: 1st place 2025
Hold back the rain
just a little while.
Let the clouds gray the sky
but hold the flood gates closed.
Hold back the chilled wind
up in the trees high above.
Let the warm remain
just a little longer.
Hold the color of the leaves
in brilliant reds and yellows.
Let the oranges and the greens
cling tight and unrelenting on each branch.
Hold the end of autumn standing still
with soft pastel sunsets.
Let the night inch slowly
earlier each evening.
Hold back the silence of dusk
whispering each sad goodbye.
Let the earth sing loud and vibrant birdsong
amidst the chatter of the squirrels.
Hold silent the caw of the crows
once sharp, repetitive and shrill.
Let the scary tingle of their cries
slip away into the cold.
Hold steady and still
this moment in time.
Let it not step forward
or back
Hold me safe in the here and now
before the rains come.
I don't want to lose you,
We vowed this life is ours to share,
If these words are really true,
We could have a perfect love affair.
You said you really want me,
Yet you're letting us fall apart,
Am I too blind to see,
If only I had known from the start.
All you do is hold back,
Hold back the fever,
All you do is make me feel,
Like there is nothing real,
In you heart.
All you do is hold back,
Hold back the hunger,
You are making me cry,
I don't know why,
You hold back.
Hold back your love ...
Hold back
One early morning in May
Just before the break of day,
I spied a haggard looking Sun
Appearing to be on the run,
Bedraggled but feigning zest
Oh, was seen rising from the west!
Sneaking behind some clouds,
Like a thief hiding in shrouds,
Scurrying towards home eastwise,
From where each morn he must rise.
The sun it seems got lost,
Carousing out and about
after all night on a hot date
with a pretty twinkling starlet,
Dancing away to the rhythm and rhyme,
Alas, the sun failed to rise on time!
Scared of what Mother Nature would say
Why didn't he in the east stay,
And terrified of Father Time
the sun could not smile or shine.
The day failed to dawn that way,
And the world got to sleep another day!
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Don't hold back
Gave but
don't expect back
Before I was born
It was said
givers never lack
Doe some use it as
An avenue of extortion
Yet like a truth
The great are those that gave
Their are more to come
When you gave
Don't hold back
If you got it inside
Express it outside
It you got the idea
Share it out
If you understand the truth
Don't hold back
Don't hold back
when you know a
Truth and hold back
That makes you
part of the problem
Don't hold back
Don't fear
Don't fail to move
Don't with draw that in you
Don't hold back yourself
From your dreams
And aspiration
Your life could save another
Your vission could be the solution
For others to be part of the living
Don't hold back
The brave always hold on
The man of value never gave up
The earth need you
Our generation is in need of all
Who cares, and act
Don't with hold back
that you know
Don't hold back to fear
Oh my love
My dear brothers
My lovely beautiful sisters
People all over Africa
All over the globe
Hold on
Don't hold back
My love, my life
You whom I adore
Hear me now
I ask but one thing of you
For this, only you can do
I implore and beseech
As for your arms I reach
Hold back
Hold back the dawn
Let me stay in your arms
Where there is safety and warmth
Where my dreams nestle deep
In your arms, they will keep
In my nest of paradise
Where all that I am
I see in your eyes
Where our passions reign
Where there is no pain
Come, come now my love
Will you not hear my plea?
Will you not grant this request?
Please grant it to me….
Hold back
Yes, hold back the dawn
With the dawn dawns the reality
That my life ebbs away
Nothing I can say
Will bring back one day
Caught up in mundane
I’m driven insane
For all want a part
Of my sensitive heart
The world has demands
Little it understands
Of my needs and desire
Of my bright inner fire
Within my four walls
Release sweetly calls
Tonight is all I have
Tonight my respite
Tonight my fantasy
Tonight my paradise
Tonight my destiny
Oh, my heart, my love
Grant this to me
Set my heart free
Please....
Hold back
Hold back the dawn
Eileen Manassian Ghali
Hold back, Little Heart,
Hold back the deluge of love
That threatens to gush out
From your portals
Hold back!
The object of your affection
May only require sprinkles
Tiny showers
Droplets of those emotions
That you keep in store
Hold Back!
The flood of your feelings
That could drench him to the core
Could also drown him
If he is not strong enough to swim
In your boundless sea
Hold back!
Though overwhelmed, Little Heart
Hold Back!
Know that you will not perish
With the weight of the love you bear
Keep it in check
Till one who is worthy
Gently knocks on your door
Who having tasted the droplets,
Comes thirsty for more.
Then let the floodgates go, Little Heart
Don’t hold back...one tiny drop
Set the pent up torrents free
And in that flood of passion
You will find your release!
Eileen Manassian Ghali
Posted on Poetry Soup October 20, 2012
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An Experiement
Do you ever?
You
Love
Lord
Love all the way
Don’t hold back
Love with all your being
Love with all your senses
Love with your reservations
Love with your inhibitions
Love with your fears
Love with your apprehension
Love with your hurt feelings
Love with your scare
Love with all your hang ups
Love with all your put ups
Love forever and always
Like He does
Hold back, Little Heart,
Hold back the deluge of love
That threatens to gush out
From your portals
Hold back!
The object of your affection
May only require sprinkles
Tiny showers
Droplets of those emotions
That you keep in store
Hold Back!
The flood of your feelings
That could drench him to the core
Could also drown him
If he is not strong enough to swim
In your boundless sea
Hold back!
Though overwhelmed, Little Heart
Hold Back!
Know that you will not perish
With the weight of the love you bear
Keep it in check
Till one who is worthy
Gently knocks on your door
Who having tasted the droplets,
Comes thirsty for more.
Then let the floodgates go, Little Heart
Don’t hold back...one tiny drop
Set the pent up torrents free
And in that flood of passion
You will find your release!
if its in you
be ture
get it out
no doudt
some won't like what you do
you owe it to me and you
we must must not be a few
mack you think your be wack
put that on the rack
WRITER DON'T HOLD BACK
if its how you feel
than appeel
don't kneel
have lips seal
thats the deal
put afrsid on arack
DON'T HOLD BACK
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