Memory Lullaby Poems

In my dreams, 
you are always there,
Yet you never speak.

When you’re around,
The scent of blooming roses follows.
Is that why your presence feels so thorny?

Then I...

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It’s time for sleep,
Yet I can’t get a wink,
For all I can do is weep.

Under Heaven’s sweet caress,
Memories of you fade,
Albeit just for the night.

My...

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Risking the wishes of a silent night,
Colored in hope, 
Silent and slow, rising far off,
Beyond the milky slumber of a sunset,
Blazing bloodshot and drinking
Melancholy, ruddy...

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Today I’m thankful for raindrops and lullabies
and how a thunderstorm would always bring
my mom into my room…and how a lullaby she’d sing

It’s a memory I...

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For many of us, I imagine, our love of music begins when in our mother’s womb we lie…
while floating in her warmth we hear her...

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The wind
comes in at night,
bringing with it new ghosts
but I'm wrapped tight in mother's quilt, 
each painstaken swatch stitched by her own hand
She sings a...

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Lonesome Hill
Written In Memory of Arlis Walter Hardin, For Martha Ann Hardin
Song: Bluegrass A Capella to heartbeat rhythm helped by Seth Logan Quartermouse
Melody and Lyrics...

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Weapons of mass fury
Locked and loaded 
watching the media Snow 
falling on tombstones

Blinding the world 
fury for the masses 
raise our glasses pour the wine...

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She heard if faintly
fading into the background;
and subconsciously,
she's familiar of its presence.
Unbeknownst to her
she's humming to the melody.

The hook plays a recollection.
With every repeat,
it brings...

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And in the cold winter rain
I keep you in my heart in frame.
A few steps back from this closed door,
You will be mine forever more....

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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At night, the memories become a dream
And silence my only lullaby...

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It's unimaginable
How long I've nurtured the wish
To have you sit with me
And share a close connection

To have the feeling that
I'm yours
And you're mine
Even when you've...

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quatrain with chain rhyme

The edge of the sunset dissolves
into the horizon.  The day's candle
dies, yet fires light the sky once more;
once more, as rioters...

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A unique and unrehearsed lullaby 
That wind and storms amplify 
A confined and precise ballet
That illuminate in shadow-play
A sun-kissed and bright sail
That awaits a melodic...

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