Kept Poems - Poems about Kept

To all my children, may you please be aware! I don't always show it, but I will always care. Each of you have been a great gift to me. Your births made this man happy as can be. Each came to this world in a very unique way. Causing me to humble, seek God and to pray. I'd like to share...

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My mother’s curls were teeny tiny, ringlets of gray Tightly wound, as if they had been set around toothpicks My sister and I had golden curls until we were two. They gave us a haircut, and that was the end of them. Our brother had curls, but they embarrassed our father. He did not think he looked like a real...

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Cold is the tittering of befitted feet Cold is the meagre meanders of falling fractals Cold is the twinge of bitter blues upon reeling retreats Cold is the roiling retch of frostbitten flesh Cold is the weary wench of an incomplete belch Cold is the hoarded heath upon a ridiculed roof Cold is the eerie ebb of a trepid twitch Cold...

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Best kept secret in China When the Bangiao dam collapsed No one told for a long time This was 1975, before people had computers or an internet 240, 000 people died that day, and no one told. Best kept secret in China...

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I might raise both of my eyebrows. Even though I just walked away after comments others make. We crash on each other yet again, I mean, since when have we not? But asking, if something is going on between our too, just left me ashamed with full of regrets, that I even started. Started knowing how the blood would...

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Lighthouse shines reflective sea lapping rocks plus skipping a house mouse. Stoic structured aperture aiding scarred fought homeless heroic. Sullen elements outstretched expanse points a critter to lull in. Manmade contraption whirrs about as a little varmint evade. Compass nils bearing takes point unexpected practices. Keeper mermaid purged surging wave, tempt failed, saves a dreamer. ...

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Tremors shake beneath trepidatious feet. To shake when shooken offers scents of defeat. Took in thine imagery from perches unseen. Salivating secretions ooze and seep secrecy. Scantily clad corruptions do sit upright. Smirking shards the aimless beacon leads. Lapping pools of torment to endless vacancy. Loser coagulates down under unsettled concrete. Locked moments buried flags of victory. Written on Feb-23-2024 ...

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Kept Cat You called me your dream bird, now it's too late We'd fly off in bliss, our purr-fect dream date I deemed you my winner you deemed me your dinner How does it feel to be my kept cat, mate? ...

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I never knew that I could hurt So bad till I saw you flirt With a girl behind the bar Smiling brightly like a star I was gonna get a drink After work so I could think About problems in my life Till you stabbed with with a knife Of betrayal I would see At the door--It couldn't be You were gonna be at work At...

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Shirley Zee loved cooking, cleaning and canning While her apple pies in the window were fanning Her life is so easy said our neighbor, Snoop Manning I rolled my eyes, trying my best to be dead-panning I knew the truth about Shirley’s marvelous life She had plenty of problems, lots of turmoil and strife A sneaky snake in kitten’s clothing had...

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Shirley Zee loved cooking, cleaning and canning While her apple pies in the window were fanning Her life is so easy said our neighbor, Snoop Manning I rolled my eyes, trying my best to be dead-panning I knew the truth about Shirley’s marvelous life She had plenty of problems, lots of turmoil and strife A sneaky snake in kitten’s clothing had...

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This is the box, ...

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God has treats, promises so grand, The revelation of His grace declared, Open your eyes, your ears, let them fix on Him, Embrace the harvest moment, relaxing in Him. He is moving in awesome ways so true, The revival fires ignite within you. New levels of strength, rise up from within you, In humble beginnings, revival stirs within you. Though the vision...

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As a cartoonist, I can play a bit with my students. I like drawing a bit at a time, letting them guess. The little girl guessed a puppy, kitty, panda bear. Finally, alligator which was close after I drew scales. Her last guess was a dragon – a cloud dragon. I realized then that I had decorated the beast with...

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It is hard for me to resonate with my past self, but I respect her and the things she endured through. She went through so much darkness and confusion, but she kept her dreams alive— and that is what I think still resonates today—that her dreams, her light, her ideas didn’t die with her innocence, or her hope,...

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