Write Lay Poems

When I sat down the other day,
I did my best to write a Lay,
I racked my brains for an idea
For some subject I might revere,
Since...

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For Charley, I write a char-lay
a piece with extra twist bar none.
Dull thought laid aside for a day 
shar-penning a lay just for fun.

When it...

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I've always been a simple man
But all  of that is long before
I found her name is Mary Ann
And she reads poems by the shore

I...

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a lay (lei)

Took a walk in poetry’s field,
many poems caught my appeal.

The planting of new notions I saw
and older verse put me in awe.

Metaphor, hyperbole,...

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Lay Down Your Arms
by Michael R. Burch

Lay down your arms; come, sleep in the sand.
The battle is over and night is at hand.
Our voyage has...

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Let eyes meet, let them spark a fire
Let rhythms sing to music of lyre

Let heartbeats of joy write our song
In moods of kisses yearned for...

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On a green patch
In a blue corner
At an orange shadow
Soaked with ache and smell of wine
We sat

A slice of time snatched off
From our call centre...

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I can sing a song happy days

I can dance in different ways,

I can write a thousand words

I can shout, so as to be heard,

I can...

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When I Shall Someday Lay Under Frost On The Ground

In with dead and dying leaves I pass my time
Drink my strong coffee, write my truth,...

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As I Lay in Bed This Morning
By Franklin Price
12/2/2016

As I lay in bed this morning
Thoughts of the day ran through my head
Opened my eyes and...

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To whom do I write?
Who’s to know how I feel inside?
Why these thoughts lead my hand
To write on paper and not on sand

Cigarette on hand,...

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Moving along through this life I've been handed
Not one of my choice, one that on top of me landed
Making the best of it trying to...

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Shadows fell softly
on her velvety kiss.
My first memory of 
this evening...

This troubling illusion
keeps tricking my mind.
Yet, all alone is where I find me.

I remember her...

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Among The Trees Lay My Ashes All About

Among the trees lay my ashes all about
once I was free, so let my spirit shout
All life works...

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Rhyme Scheme:

I took a journey in life to see the world.

I was just a nature freak culturally in love.

I knew when I reached my peak;...

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I lay sleeping with eyes wide open,
I lay sleeping with dreams that have no meaning,
I lay sleeping with nothing to dream about.
I lay sleeping with...

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And to the past they rode
The Shining Host: lent death
or immortality 
by golden sands of time.

Call not them back
Lest to discover that
They who last held...

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Some people do the strangest things.
It's plain and simple, you know what I mean?
The world turns in it's own direction.
Why can't you see that you...

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Re-sound the aura of Holy you
In war or peace your tryst is true.
Through misplaced desire and loud falsehoods cry;
Ring out wild bells to the wild...

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