Short Bear Witness Poems

The Light always existed
Void was created
to bear witness of the Light...

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You are pasted
forever on the wall
of eternal intrigue
To scrub it away
the world drum
of reconciliation
must be sounded
for all humans
to bear witness...

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where the breeze excites
and buttercups bear witness
the sun beats loudest
when blue eyes reflect the sky
not a cloud to spoil the view

© Harry J Horsman  2016...

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A room filled up with white gardenias
Sweet feel of love in the air
This is a joyous day!

Loved ones to bear witness to our union
Fill the church from side to side
With my soul I thee wed



for "Wedding"contest
sponsored by Dr. Ram Mehta...

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Must I
Bear witness with you
Hold on to just you
In this moment of truth
May I, can I just hold on to you
We two shall meet agreed upon
A time and place
Come engage in my space


13/16/21
Written by James Edward Lee Sr © 2021...

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In the dreary woods I walk in my raggedy old clothes,
bare with my heart open in waiting for you,
quite a few new moons have passed,
feeble I grow, weaker with a tick,
spend a solemn night under the stars,
for the sky to bear witness,
that my heart was never mine....

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From the ashes at Auschwitz 
    to the charred remains at Be'eri
  Generations of Jewish children
    bear witness to the same tragic story

  Mankind's searing hate for God's people
    the Jews
  We ask Him to strengthen us
    to see this new episode through...

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Believe in the Son of God
and be saved through
My Mercy & My Grace

Come into My Kingdom
and you will learn of
My Mercy & My Grace

Keep Me above all else
and you will feel
My Mercy & My Grace

Bear witness in My Name
and you’ll be blessed by
My Mercy & My Grace...

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There's a heart shaped hollow in her 
       as she stands amid falling leaves 
   the bare branches bear witness to her brokenness 
           her heartache hurts to her harm


05.26.2021

Lines taken from "Amid falling leaves"

For Gregory Richard Barden's "Liberum Divisa 6" contest...

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Bear witness to those dying men

Conscripted fate by poison pen

The scorched remains of foe and friend

Their ashes scattered on the wind

Pawns sacrificed without a pause

Death descends from steel wings and claws

More martyrs of a nation's cause

Forged and fired by enacted laws...

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SANS 3


Why do time and space contrast
In the blunt convergence of loss?
Watch now as change devours
Time in the puzzling quandary
Of portent conflicts that arise
For each soul must bear witness
To the ethereal mortality
That feels so solid and real

~~~~~~~~~




Leon Enriquez
05 October 2019
Singapore...

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We need not bother ourselves
with these details
For the process unwinds its progression
and the end is peaceful
Like the sleeping babe that enters
It's sleep that now claims the silence
Rest awkens the spirit
Who sees the need to depart
And we who bear witness
can only watch and wonder
as we silently weep in stillness...

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Listen to poem:

Let your eyes do the talking
   when you have lost your tongue

Let the blue of your eyes
   spin long tales beneath stars

Let midnight silence turn to honey
   under the charm of your spell

Let the moon thru the branches
   bear witness while stir summer breezes



AP: 1st place 2021

Posted on September 18, 2021...

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Lethargy holds life broken, dream notions molded
and harshly sits heavy, deeply within my chest.
Glum stillness chokes fresh, moving air until listless
inside pale walls too groggy-bleak to bear witness.
Hung languor peaks indifference with vehemence
while the outside world circles null with endlessness.








... CayCay
February 20, 2019...

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I find in strings of perfection 
A less than wary sight
Events I plan to bear witness 
To humble oneself no might 
A broken branch of hatred sewn 
Into my souls new keep 
Within these dreams of broken things 
I’ve lost in counting sheep 
Guilt that wells below my eyes 
My choices now set free 
Beyond my worldly self I find 
The dreams become of me...

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To be in such profound presence 
Witnessing mother birth child human creation 
I can barely hope ecstasy permitting
Amidst a back drop of love, panic and fear
This dream unfurled come to fruition ordained under holly communion
Love above love be fulfilled 
And from this day forth
No mother shall bear witness to a child killed 
Nor innocent blood spilled...

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Be not so gluttonous with your wanton desires
Be not so greedy that you stand there alone
Be not so evil as to burn others with fires
For all of these sins you must surely atone

Bear witness to redemption so offered to you
A kingdom before you, it lays there and waits
Give up devil’s actions and hold your heart true
The time it approaches, my friends now make haste...

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I bear witness to fighting and chaos
I bear witness to unjust favors
A change in the tone of the day i bear witness
I bear witness to the time of day
As coolness feels dry and heat feels empty  I bear witness
Sounds no longer echo scenery has no color I bear witness
I bear witness to a witness that bears me
To and from the leaves blow I bear witness
I bear witness to the awkward sound of my footsteps...

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Skips in a line of Customers
To attend to some newcomers;
A long good patience running out,
A long silent voice to soon shout!

"Why aside a guy in need wave"
While he does same attention crave?
CCTV does bear witness,
People's acts judging their fitness...

He could seller call A Bastard
Or for humor Tasteless Custard;
A claim he ate her this morning
But has, since, been sadly mourning....

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Bicycle man ride, ride fast
I see the wings spreading
increase the speed geometrically
as you reason arithmetically
you are about to fly into air
the bicycle is on takeoff lane
haste, never look up, but your feet
blind passengers you have
deaf and dump surely they are 
fans you have applaud anything
and the wind accompanying you
will bear witness in detail
if you finish the flight
then land safely...

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I chose to be a Christian.
Denial was no option.
I must bear witness.
Roman soldiers inquired,
“Do you follow Jesus Christ?”
My fate knew no fear.
Yes, He is the Son of God.
Forcefully, I was taken.
Oh, coliseum,
Bring forth thy gladiators.
I will not fight to the death.
Eternity, come!

ã June 2, 2012
Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen

Written for Poetry Soup Member Contest: Choka for a Choke Hold
Sponsored by Amy Green...

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Everything isn't happen stand;
No me here deserves adrift;
Another chance;
Who will wear the green pants;
I chant I will, I won't;

Bear witness

pay a lot, git a little found  innocent, but quaintly;
What is this?
That we miss;

Bear witness

Clothed in black dress is white;
Wrong turn down an alley got shot;
Past, midnight, this is it, my.......
Bear witness

11/17/17
written by James Edward Lee Sr....

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I. words grasp, bare, at truths
"I AM," says more of BEING
than "I am the Leader."

II. mornings and nights
I gaze at skies - not for stars:
"Welcome Spaciousness!"

III. a tree, orchids prosper
in deepest forest. Perhaps better ...
when fawn or human bear witness

IV. Not hearing, seeing forest flora, tree ...
Did they bloom ... fall? Does the once-extinct 
IVORY BILLED gain Presence when I see?...

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Lost my way within the storms of rage
Searching for a clearing
Some kind of forgiveness
Still browsing the categories of my past
Trying to read more into what has already be written
Escaping reality's grasp
Letting my mind wander endlessly in the realms of fear
Still trying to relive moments of time forgotten by others
Unable to bear witness to regret
Captivated in it's trance
Me; slowly disappearing till my body dust will be....

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Ever so peaceful you appear,
Disguising your eternal suffrage.
Silent is your noted fear;
For to humans, you take umbrage.

Yet you try to smile, 
As the crimson stains your body.
You chant “Peace!” in denial,
To your own folly.

Bear witness to carnage;
Bear witness to despair.
For you are the stage,
In which they all appear!

Stagnant are we in turning peace to war,
Leaving your sorrowful mind with a silent scar....

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