Long With sympathy Poems

I have always wanted something wonderful out of life
But my mother said there is always a price
It has nothing to do with land, money or property 
Someone has always been there for me and I...

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6 miles up river Arikara are encountered,
they are a people of amenable disposition and are agrarians,
they chuckle with sympathy as we inform them of our grizzly confrontation
and they tell us that disease had forced them...

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Mommy, you are the master of matters that I manufacture
The Queen that queued for nine months to receive me
You are the fleece blanket that warmed my days in the dark
The pillar that strengthen my backbone...

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Your glorious emerald eyes 
Glisten in the moonlight 
Glisten in the moonlight 
Delight dances in the water
I watch it joyfully
You are set free from the cage...
You're like a dove soaring in the sky
You are the...

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I'm drawing the sun on an empty ceiling 
But I still bring the clouds in my own way 
You wanted a goddamn college essay 
But there was nothing else to say 
She's the tortured soul...

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we are all bound together by the Godly bonds of brotherhood
we are all the children of the Creator who is all perfect and good
we have always been His neighbors, we have always been His friends
for...

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In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan,
Earth stood hard as iron, water like a stone;
Snow had fallen, snow on snow, snow on snow,
In the bleak midwinter, long ago.

- Excerpt from A Christmas Carol by...

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Part Two of the Fun Series...if you haven't read Part One, Half-Fast Fun, please do so! Thanks~ #JWE 

Constantly, I am trying…
Not to cry and die away inside…
Quit lying and replying
To my sighing that I...

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Wonder not
if my thoughts are thrilled and twisted
daily and deeply by the albums of your ways,
I succumb severely to the impulse of imminent interplay
so dumb with joy, grateful for the fusion of our fevers,
I've never...

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A battlefront benefactress,
She has her fortress, a fortified Princess, inside the dungeon of distress,
Tiled with the bone chips of ingratitude colored in pigments of black bright & rugid red,
An arrowhead chandelier illuminated by wicked tears,...

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I wish she was alive,
I simply wish she was alive,
The mother I lost a year prior,
If by some stroke of good luck God
Could defer her death,
Till she witness my wedding
Also, opened for me his arms...

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Her son died when he was but a child…it was way beyond her belief…
She wrapped him in her arms and walked around…unable to control her grief.

She walked from house to house…”I’m looking for medicine for...

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A guilty secret kept within,
Hurt but show no pain.
Losing out to someone else,
Carry on the game.

Trying all to make things right,
Neglecting all i wish.
Taking risks in pleasing others ,
Passing what i miss.

Saying inside i just...

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Oh! to be among trees, mindful of silent power 
in mountains hallowed trails walked by Muir
snow still filling nature’s deep kept secret bower
breathe a bounty of sweet air clear and pure

the rush of streams in...

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Petition the Lord with an Open Heart
       By Dane Smith-Johnsen

I shall petition the Lord with an open heart.
Letting my spirit seek His goodness always.
I shall cleanse my life with...

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I write this poem here where i lay 
Where sunshine is gone i could only see grey 
Where babbles of a monster who refuse a weapon was told 
Not a fairytale of a monster that'll...

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a day will come 
when all my anguish
will vanish
and my sadness
turn into happiness
free from the whips and chains
which feeds me with pains
far will i be
from the land 
of hatred and jealousy
from the life which inflict...

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Looking outside my sill at the stardust waiting to fall,
   I see Cashmere, my ivory horse, ready to leave the stall.   
I remember the days when simplicity was all I knew,...

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Edina's life story is worthy of being told with sympathy, 
she was a refugee from worn-torn Kosovo breathing
an air frosted by the harsh wind of January;
she escaped from an abusive father named Bojan
when her town...

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Choked by the incense of poetic justice,
I volunteered to be slain for the betterment of humanity.
The paintings of my ink on white sheet were witnesses,
When in Abuja, I drew my poetic daggers,
Against a twin bomb...

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Tell me your story, leave out no fact,
I’ll pose my questions with sympathy and tact,
You’re a brave woman with a pure heart,
If you’re now ready, breathe deeply and we’ll start.

You were fifteen, vulnerable and shy
Discovering...

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God answers prayers
Sometimes with a “Yes”
Sometimes with a “No”
Sometimes with a “Wait”
But, always with the goal…
Of giving hearts real hope!

God answers prayers
Oftentimes with His grace
Other times with His peace
Frequently with His faith
But, always with the...

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An illusionary delusion, 
visions of confusion-
Phantasm of mirage, 
or insane sabotage.

I set out to walk with no one around for safety, 
the scenery cold where warmth was not found-
I thought I was alone with no...

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anxiety in my mind, still growing inside of me
showing off all the things that I try to hide in me
 
it's crippling my mind and confusing how I feel
an illness of a different kind, now...

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I should’ve never let you die

I feel remorse about your death of sorrow
I feel like I wasn’t there for you , every time when I express my sorrow of sadness I think about wishing I...

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