Angst Shelter Poems

Will you come, Oh merciful Lord?
To touch and heal my bleeding heart.
When I sob in suppressed agony,
Ease my heart so torn apart.

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Seek shelter if you want to live,
when a tornado touches down.
Swirling, spinning winds launch debris
that's strewn through the air like shrapnel.

When whirling winds out-roar a...

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The world has shut down,
folks hanging around
are told to shelter in place.
And based on the news
you dare not refuse,
so, stay at home just in case.

It...

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It seems to happen frequently
At least in this millennium
All the freedoms we enjoy
We now must keep to minimum

They say we must can cel our plans
And...

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Shelter

When it’s raining outside
And there’s no where to hide
Give me shelter tonight
Oh baby, give me shelter

When I’m cold in the night
And heat breaks the budget
Give...

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A child shelters ...
Under a bloody, swollen moon
Yearning the daylight
Soft beams show the way
But there is no ember ... no brightened clarity
No warm-to-the-marrow saturation
It is...

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i look out my eyes,
windshield wipers —
crying all the time,
inside.

the shy gives me the creepers,
living all the time;
buried treasure,
the shovel of survival, hides.

the teacher writes...

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Walking together entwined on garden path
you whispered the tune of autumn breeze.
Your enigmatic smile, the mirage of illusion,
I thought sparkled in my stellar yearning.

The northern...

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Pale Shelter Poem 

Empty and Alone 

 

As I sit and wonder where it was that I went wrong 

I see you and me 

Forever...

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Is this real?
Why say it is 
 when you know
 it isn't true, this isn't reality.

It's the dream 
 you take me with seductive guile
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Ashen was the sky 
That rejected hand of sunrise
Sullen was the heart
That stumbled in affection,

Incapable of lauding
Ruby blush of budding rose
And pink passions on horizon
Defying...

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Beset with uncertainties of the future
hurling “what-ifs” intensifying gloomy woes…
…tortured minds grieve in affliction’s turmoil 
fearing tomorrow’s insecurity-despair 
longing to be shielded
inside God’s fortress of...

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I knew you once upon a time
knew you well, 
both your heart and your mind
but then things changed
and you went away
and I no longer knew...

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SEEKING SHELTER
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



I’m Unhappy I Need Something New
My Present Situation Just Won’t Do
I’ll Go to a Different, Fresh Venue
Find True Friends and Places New
I’ll...

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just a little more time is all where asking for
just a little uncertainty can bring you down
falling emblems that drape the nomadic tapestry
in conclaves of...

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