Spring Love Poems

-- The World of Opposites --
John Herlihy

We live in a world of opposites,
Nothing at all rings as it seems.
Emotion arises from deep deposits,
And we know...

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Winter Thoughts of Ann Rutledge

Ann Rutledge was apparently Abraham Lincoln’s first love interest. Unfortunately, she was engaged to another man when they met, then died...

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Spring's Excitement
There are rhythms of Nature that no one controls
that farms use to advantage! Time's fishermen sailed
both with tides and fair breezes offshore in their...

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My first love, I recall with affection
'Twas so many long years ago
I loved her like I've loved no other
At least, at the time I thought...

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If I were to become Autumn
you would see me transform
all around  me in mid fall
leaves suspended 
a freeze frame of rustic life
my dress of...

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Sunlight warms my emerald
Hues, petals soft and tender
Graceful beneath the morning
Dews, where there is such
Pleasure to be treasured

Raindrops nourish my hungry 
Young thoughts with sweet
Liquid,...

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If only you knew.. how much I love you,                ...

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          Coaxed to Grow


Oh, how wonderfully innocent
and juvenile, 'twas for me.
You, scooting surreptitiously.
closer and closer to...

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You Were There…

You were there when the clouds came
And my world crashed down in heavy rain; 
There for me. Never left my side
When we walked...

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Acrostic down the side.

A letter starts the new word.

Akrostikhis Greek word.

As hymns by St. Ephrem.

ABC  acrostics. 

Any letter will do.

A fun way to write...

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Devotion Poem, Like Snow Leopards

(Written for Jim Eslinger)

Out on one of the Great Plains of Yahweh, It seems
You may have gone on a hunt, or...

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"A"utumn what a very special time of the year.
"U"nder the tree lay glistening red and orange leaves.
"T"he autumn will not last too long.
"U"naware the squirrels...

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Pretty lady be not sad
Your eyes sparkling and shiny
What is your face hiding from
Living colorful all day 
Many colors you do wear
Show your pretty face...

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Autumn Sacrifice

Autumn empties herself out
EVERYTHING – her gifts from summer-spring maturity -
ALL her bounty – never hoarded in a grasping hand –
Gathered and released before...

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Lingering light dwindles among the horizon,
Twilight fades with a farewell from the sun.            ...

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