Long Grayest Poems

Ever free to traverse my world
Yet shackled to an eleven year old promise
I donned a platinum cloak atop a living mountain
Physically high, emotionally low

I held two pairs of hands
While my heart beat out a painful...

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Let us not aim to build our houses upon the sand, but rather...
look to the Rock of Ages who came before us in this Land

A happy heart can make a glad face
in this ungodly wretched...

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When my heart aches, almost breaks,
Dewlike tears fall softly,
Sensing my need for letting go, 
Allowing the feelings to gently flow.

When my light fades, bouncing on shadows,
Lingering in the dark, twilight
Gesturing from the eventual night,
Breathing melancholy...

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Wouldst, such mortal traverse the crags of Ne'ermere tails,
tis a grayest hour whence Luna's twilight flits her crown whipped
freed of mnemonic shimmers.

Hail winds bade the cliffs fond too well,
the forest dwelleth quietude, erring not to...

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IMPACT

Perhaps the weather is wistful or bonnie bonnie good,
who can say, but i think on the grayest of gray days,
eyes stay closed, sunshine is but a bitter dream,
unless you’re the rare goody-goody Pollyanna-type,
before the huge...

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Simple short phrases


Taken from the grayest clouds,
charcoal mist collecting my thoughts
Entwining my heart with pointed sorrow
as my stupidity takes center stage to a sold out show

Weakened at the knees, disjointed disappointments,
assumptions falter my eyes 
Blinded...

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In loving memory John Kleeves
Written By: Ashley Marie Gilchrist 
02-02-2015

Although I can not heard you I thank you, for always being there
Even when you were in and out
You always seemed to care for me.

You meant...

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Just twenty days. The mystical
Libra will turn rosette boughs into
fading auburn… nights combing
the breeze colder and quite somber ,
as if women on bare hilltops await
the arrival of men in some far oceans 
when bleached summer...

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Lord I’m So Glad You Are In My Life

Beneath the heavens
Dreams hued in cherry blossoms
Spring bloom tulips of perfect love
Leaves sing a lullaby
Seeds bound on its own perfume
Tranquil smells of nature
Overflowing with life

Years brought darkness
Waves...

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What is broken,
Still shines great beauty...
Whoever or whatever that reaches the inside of me,
Is a treasure worthy enough for me to forever hold...

When night comes,
My feelings and thoughts truly unfold...
During the darkest of my hours,
I...

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By now my perception,
so naive and derisive
going beyond intention,
should have changed;
blemishes spoil this appearance,
they are worse than any word said
to hurt and humiliate with vengeance:
sling no stones, no threats to shield! 

I got through many...

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Along life’s seashore grows my rundown tree,
It’s roots charting a past that drains away
Where  branches limp    no longer fancy-free
To  pale against one ardent summer day:

Hyacinths  caress me  as...

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Death
Fallen Angel
Silken Black Feathers

Death Doesn't Mourn

Beneath the Heavens
Thunder Rolled Across the Sky
Hold Up The Sky
Has Fate Have Something Special Planned

Ashes trail out with the sky
Storm Deep Within
In a Swell of Mourning
My Eternal Grief
My Drawing Breath
The...

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“I can’t remember you, but you are pretty,” said the old man
Tears formed in the eyes of the woman

"Who are you?"
His voice was the grayest of blues

"Are you my new doctor? Or perhaps a nurse?"
Silently,...

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In the grayest of skies, a cloud may roam
But in its darkness, a rainbow can call home
A vibrant beam of hope, a splash of color bright
A promise of better days, a ray of light

Be that...

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My eyes wide through window stand
Sun rising compel thoughts of black or white or the grayest gray 
Discernment from reality which is left or right hand
In a hundred lifetimes could I sway
The one answer from...

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You harm me with your figure and my memories, leaving me thin and hollow like the ghosts of my mistakes

I wonder why I often cry at the thought of what’s been lost
But mostly I, with...

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innocent eyes look up to mine,

chubby little arms wrap around my neck and you whisper goodnight,

a kiss on the cheek,

the grace of your sweet breath,

the  innocence in your voice,

your heart beating next to mine.....

and...

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Have you ever taken the  time to watch rain  fall in winter? 
See the beautiful symmetry of it; listen to the gentle splash?
    Watch the lacy curtain of moisture against...

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There's double rainbow in the east
One greater, one lesser
About fifteen buzzard catch breeze
What a great contraster

Hope and death in sky together
Red, yellow, green, blue, stay
Violet lingers_disappears
Into clouds grayest gray

Such a glorious sight where ends
'Pon ground...

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In this road we call life
I carry with me sunshine,
To spread joy from the deepest sea
to the distant skyline.

When feeling down, not making a sound
I open up my purse,
I peek inside, and Lo! and Behold!
My...

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Just as much as the paper oaks layer 
and fall back on shuffling feet 
to crisp up the air of the grayest of days 
leaving the feeling of winter complete 
this is how much I...

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you never felt the sun
the merry go round always spinning blue
songs are sung without harmony
summers always run cool 
i gently hold that ice violin
in the shallow end of the pool,,, 
somewhat

you never tasted a snowflake
the...

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