Saint Peter Waits
...Light
bids me welcome
darkness retreats
Alas
poor death
thou must be alone
His gate
reopens
before yours has locked
The harp
of an Angel
—calling me home
(The 1st Book Of Prayers: Augu...
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Categories:
reopens, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Quiet
...In the stillness of the night,
In the ambience of blurred light,
I'm awakened,
My prowess is strengthened.
My muse comes to me,
Inspiration flows like the sea,
It’s an encompassing tide,
Not...
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Categories:
reopens, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
My Heart Smiles
...My heart smiles at your every word
With a love I feel which is unsurpassed
Love this game of writing down words
That reflect my innermost emotions
My wish from the start is to touch ever...
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Categories:
reopens, friend,
Form: Free verse
A Simple Poetry Man
...Well I'm just a simple poetry man
With rhymes about joys of the heart
Living in this fantasy kingdom of words
I turn on the switch and it starts
Words and phrases come cascading out
Of...
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Categories:
reopens, poets,
Form: Rhyme
Sonnet For Spring
...Spring marches its way south, inundating
the winter steeled earth struggling to drink
the season’s flood. So I bide time, waiting
for thirsty trees to flourish red and pink.
Yet when the heaven...
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Categories:
reopens, seasons, spring,
Form: Sonnet
For Some Whisky He Went Frisky
...From him you can snatch a fable:
Just place whisky on his table;
He could stories quicken their pace,
In the hearer’s hearts create space
Wherever he stops Audience wait,
As only he reopens Gate...
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Categories:
reopens, drink, imagination, wisdom, words,
Form: Rhyme
The Invisible Border
...Border reopens
After a long long time
A tremendous flow of cars and people
Crossing the border
As though limitless
No more barriers
No more restrictions
No more ban
That doesn't mean you're ...
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Categories:
reopens, people,
Form: Free verse
Christ Is the Messenger of Peace
...Christ is the Messenger of peace,
He gladly looks upon us
and endures patience...
even when most of us
turn away and dare not
listen to His kind words!
Christ is the Messenger of peace
who wai...
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Categories:
reopens, bible, endurance, faith, forgiveness,
Form: Lyric
Dry Mascara
...DRY MASCARA
Nobody sees through the shadow and the color of my eyes
The times I've cried are the only time you notice the trace down my face
This time,
The sorrow at heart is deeper than anyt...
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Categories:
reopens, cry, deep, depression, grief,
Form: Alliteration
The Love Angel
...Flapping wings through the summer breeze stands a love angel. A hearted spirit made by God’s mighty hand comes to bring love to the saddest world. She is dashing through the skies appearing to a coup...
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Categories:
reopens, angel, christian, god, inspirational
Form: Rhyme
Facing the World
...The falling of a giant
Awakens another giant
The removal of a door
Reopens another door
Wiping these tears off my eyes
I am about to live my life
Roll out the carpet, the one that is meant to b...
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Categories:
reopens, adventure, character, chicago, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Time's Prison
...If you call out loudly,
the past will find you
The pain but a looking glass,
all time a shroud
As memory surrounds,
its prison reopens
Chaining the present
—locking the future do...
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Categories:
reopens, time,
Form: Rhyme
Fate's Retort
...To live within the moment,
and write as love does now befriend
“Light shining brightest as
hours grow short”
A beginning reunites with
the journey’s end
“Memory...
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Categories:
reopens, fate,
Form: Rhyme
Throne of Pain
...Broken feelings…
My chest of gold
A torments ransom
No trinkets sold
The treasure bounteous
Walls lined with blood
Its hurt and pain
I have withstood
The jewels lack sparkle
But shimmer deep...
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Categories:
reopens, pain,
Form: Rhyme
And Nothing At All
...Like wine in storage,
The cellar of my perception ages
Buried deep in its recesses
The past and future abandoned
—time no longer the vintner
Fermenting in the immediacy
Of the chosen insta...
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Categories:
reopens, age, time,
Form: Free verse
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