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Holdfast Poems - Poems about Holdfast

Premium MemberCarpe Diem Seize the Day

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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.- Mother Teresa

Breathless daughter, remember that time soon fades
Challenges arise and hope is not ...
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Categories: holdfast, appreciation, blessing, inspirational, life,
Form: Carpe Diem

Premium MemberBarbarossa II

...As Barbarossa roars into the East.
its southern barb cut swiftly to the core.
And as it raged the slaughtering increased,
consuming any force that stood before.
His swift barrage devoured the ran...
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Categories: holdfast, world war ii,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium MemberUnadorned

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Although the rose is unadorned by dew, rain or sun… she shines still brighter when all her work is done. ~ quote by poet

If often seems that I’m like the gentle rose,
When my limbs ...
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Categories: holdfast, appreciation, beautiful, flower, garden,
Form: Quatrain

Premium MemberWabi-sabi

...When he went away, leaving her that day,
She thought her heart would betray…
The way it hurt, the way she wanted him to stay.

When love meant to last all lifelong, like a song,
Joyful and full,...
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Categories: holdfast, appreciation, heartbreak, heartbroken, lost
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWinter's Tears

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Aching, trembling like the dewdrop as it slides, wistful, across a petal… down a tearstained cheek – our ancestor’s heart’s quake  ~ quote by author

Wrinkled now, thoughts car...
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Categories: holdfast, angel, autumn, death, eulogy,
Form: Monorhyme



Shadow Run

...The day, now clearer-skied and cloudy strips cruise
 in shades of deep dark sapphire and Aegean blues
  with sweeter shades of cerulean azure oceanic hues; 
stretching out in yawns across the west...
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Categories: holdfast, analogy, nature, seasons, ,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberSurvival of the Fittest: 'Undetermined'

...The hungered in-flight spots its need to last,
The beleaguered seize every occasion,
Fittest scores a new day, other has passed,

Left to make the status quo unsurpassed,
Lost must s...
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Categories: holdfast, anti bullying, fate, nature,
Form: Villanelle

Grandmas Hands

...Grandma’s Hands


You wish me plenty good things
Your safe travels and good fortune 
I rightly claim 

Your purpose and plan you’ve acclaimed
Your poise and gentle grace , angelic 

Your on...
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Categories: holdfast, age, blessing, care, childhood,
Form: Narrative

Save Your Judgement

...You'd think that it would be easy 
to malfunction as I do. 
In the eyes of those who see me
clearly one and one are two. 
However, it's not that basic,
for, when in these shoes, they'll see, 
t...
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Categories: holdfast, discrimination, emotions, endurance, feelings,
Form: Rhyme

High Peaks Holdfast

...I shift my jacket close as wind blows past,
perched upon this dull, gray massif of rock,
below the throaty call of raven’s squawk,
cannot stay long, in Fall the sun won’t last,
cold can make a ma...
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Categories: holdfast, earth, freedom, image, mountains,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberNaked To Nurture Naked, To Nurture

...Naked to Nurture.  Naked, to Nurture.



Why not naked into woods?
We yank up gumboots.
Enshroud our piggies in wicking and itching sockbags.
Hoping to holdfast against the forfeiture o...
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Categories: holdfast, art, philosophy, tree,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTattooed Pedigree

..."You do these things to shock me"
One of many absurdities
That mouth has hurled at me
While mine its lip is bit
Bred to holdfast like a pitbull....
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Categories: holdfast, mother,
Form: I do not know?

A Behavioral Thats Missed

...I  oversees my likely  behavioral  that not controllable or not properly directed by the rightfully owner thats never been exposed to his behavior will not be ashamed to prevail and to acknowledge su...
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Categories: holdfast, anger, conflict,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Yesterday

...YESTERDAY

A FEELING FREE,
COOL AIR 
SOUNDS OF GEESE,
PHEASANTS,

ROOKS FLAPPING
SAWS BUZZING
FEELINGS QUITE,
 LIKE RUSTLING LEAVES
A BREEZE NOT HERE

STRANGE LIGHTS, 
THRU CLOUDS 
FRO...
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Categories: holdfast, happiness, joy, love,
Form: Free verse

Finding Ourselves

...As the days grow shorter and the nights have more length,
We have more time to ponder on God and receive more of His strength.
To pick up the pace where once we were slack,
And to know it is into ...
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Categories: holdfast, dedication, devotion, faithgod, god,
Form: Verse

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