Shadow Of A Doubt Poems | Examples

A poem inspired by “Involuntary Spies” by Marion Strobel:

Without a Shadow of a Doubt

Soldiers, Spies, Brute Strength, Intelligence
Without a shadow of doubt, there is a difference
The latter exists in a position of negligence
Yet they stand strong and courageous
Without a shadow of a doubt, their loyalty is contagious
Ready to die for their country for a cause unknown
Knowing, Showing, that they are alone

Without a shadow of doubt, they stand on the true front lines
Ahead of all the rest
Ready to do the bidding of those they test

Sometimes they switch sides, showing their captors they can be rotten
Double Agents, Infidels, Soldiers forgotten
Just like Mussolini, Franco, and Stalin
But without a shadow of a doubt, they become lower and worse
Hungry for power and money
Using tactics that end up with them in a hearse

Without a shadow of a doubt, without a single shadow of doubt

He meandered  the alleyways of being
uncertain of the origins of his conceptions,
unclear about the emergence of his thought.
 
Along the way, he happened on  Erebus,
deepening shadows of skepticism,
darkening the lines of  incredulity.

He regarded this as quite strange. What possible
value could there be to acuminate agnosticism?
What purpose could cultivating qualms serve?

Erebus stopped and studied him, 
smiling as though he read his mind!

“Without doubt, you would never know
when you were certain,” he said. “Without
skepticism, you would never find
faith.”

By Craig J. Burt /Jimmy Boom Semtex
Are you ok?
Your brain's rattling like crazy
You're dancing like a ballerina
Twerkin around these crazy hot streets
You say why be a bore?
Life is a chore
Refuse to fade
Like a shadow of a doubt
Silver star filled skies
Shining proudly
Living freely & deep in love
We're no longer 
Strangers tonight now 
Sensational romantics 
Loving devoutly

And the clatter of heels echoes
Upon concrete downtown Havana
Never had it so good or free
The Castros’ grip and communism fade
While we dance chest to chest
Thigh to thigh Lambada-esque
Los Lobos couldn’t be this cool
Nor move so erotic like you and me
For freedom for Cuba for us
This goes on and on
Like a whistling wind
Calling your name
Stop stop and listen
Do you hear it?

When thoughts and feelings amount
           Inside ready to erupt a giant inferno
             I want to scream I want to shout
             Sorry to who ever feels the blow

               But some how got to let it all out
               Feelings not always easy to show
               Seems l have now again lost count
              How many times l have tryed though

            But then if one only knew how l felt
           As it is of course that same old sinario
              Whenever l am consumed by doubt
             As l am lurking behind this shadow



Old poem abab. 2001 follow up to troubled soul

Shadows follow but they do not borrow
 appear in step ,equal size is  kept
Without a name and absent from fame
Not able to speak just unable to streak.
upon ones guard,  unable to discard
perhaps may fade,  trying to masquerade
where shadows loom, one may assume
but its not me per say,  I led  them astray

Shadow Of A Doubt

Weighing on my heart and soul
my fears they run so deep.
I went to bed to rest my head
and soon fell fast asleep.

I began to dream it seems
all I could do was look.
Visions passing through my mind
like pages in a book.

I saw me as a little boy
I’m playing in a park.
I hear my mother calling me
come in, it’s getting dark.

Ignoring all her cries for me
convinced I’ll be alright.
I turned my back, slipped through a crack
and went deeper in the night.

My dream then changed and rearranged
I’m older in my room.
Shades are drawn I’m all alone
it feels more like a tomb.

Peering through the blinds I shut 
from the inside looking out.
I’m trapped here in the darkness
of a shadow of a doubt.

I looked in time to see me there
the day I took the Fall.
I cleared my mind in time to find
it’s not a dream at all.

Edwin C Hofert
11/29/2017

Only in the light of reasons we sprout
Do we seek our destinies by the shore.
Can there be a shadow of a doubt?

To this type of thinking we are devout
But only to this one kind and no more:
Only in the light of reasons we sprout.

And now we know what it’s all about.
The passion and war that we abhor.
Can there be a shadow of a doubt?

This method of logic we can’t do without.
But it’s been around for ages in lore
Only in the light of reasons we sprout.

This is the life we complain about.
Strangely the one we explore yet ignore.
Can there be a shadow of a doubt?

Before we can grasp it, we want out
Due to the complexities of logic. For
Only in the light of reasons we sprout
Can there be a shadow of a doubt.

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