Dark Paradise Poems

We Love the Nanny

Promise me. Not a word to anyone.
I think I'm in love with the nanny.
She's young and vibrant and dark.
I'm blooming in her...

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In moonlight realm of shadows deep
Where secrets whispered promises to keep
Two souls entwined in a misty embrace
A love conquered time and space
Through trials dark and...

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I have been humbled, they had thought.

Exile would be painful, they had wroth.

The forest would swallow me, they had spoke.

To sunshine and sparrows, they had...

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Sometimes 
We have hall had such pleasurable idle days
Where everything becomes still and quiet 
That surrounds us 
Apart from the pleasant melodic delightful
Audible sounds and...

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I had a dream of a joyless man,
sitting in the ruins of paradise.
With flat voice and cold words
he told me his tale,
While the biting wind...

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She leans into the paradise,
Of her joy,
To keep its candle moon,
Aglow in the depths of Night,

A beauty,
with fine crescent eyes,
And its shores,
Sparkle with love,
Like the...

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“Speak from the heart”
What a load of crap
Cut straight to the point
did this all even matter?
From the start, the middle to that bitter-sweet end

A strange...

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Ode to life
As I sought the sapling
Laying it deep within the soil
And tending to its needs
I felt the divine light on me
Watching it everyday 

As...

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Glistening through the heavens, stars – insights
Music in rhythms of laughter, breathing, echoing
Freedom, joy, pleasures like none other – highlights
From the darkness, pouring over the...

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In a word, be kind
In a thought, be kind
In a heart, be kind

In a soul, be light – shine
For the One who is alive
Eternally –...

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Beauteous lass Thy wounds are bleeding! 
Crowning crowning where thou go on? 
Mothers weep and babies  feeding
Crowds on crowds and trumpet blow on! 
Wearest...

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Xanadu, my wish is you 
I always dream that you are true 
You are my Eden here on earth 
You are the reason of my...

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The Promised Land
poem
Lionel Derbyshire

In the dark I glance a silhouette
I see ..
A formation in arrangement from neck to toe
I see ..
A face creation I cannot...

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My beloved up down by the valley's low floor! Rise Up! My love rise up! My sweetheart come away take a look toward the door...

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"The Tree Hugger and the Lost Paradise"

They called her 
the tree hugger,
her forest was full 
of trees that watched
silently, they had 
no mouth to speak,
rustling...

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