Short Taking Hold Poems

light
expands
radiant
around the world
spreading hope and warmth
embracing love
taking hold
within
me....

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spring creeps slowly from the mountains
fragrant breezes lilting downward
erasing despair from winter's cold
cleansing comes, is taking hold...

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Heaven muted in solemn storms,
waiting Anxiously, insanity taking hold
abrupt emotion Tenderly butchering stillness, impossible to 
control the Emptiness in HATE....

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My eyes and my body are breathless 

Looking into your eyes 

That finds my heart beating faster and faster 

With your sultriness taking hold of me 

With our skin - skin soft touches brings the 
rush that is us...

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It’s her heart
It’s her eyes twinkling at me
That makes me the luckiest man alive

She takes hold of my hand
She’s the joy of my life
Love her in every way 
Oh ya 
- love her

Oh my she’s my love
What she does to my heart
Taking hold 
Never letting go

That makes me the luckiest man alive...

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Hate 
Burning inside me
Seeping into every fiber of my being
Taking hold of every speck of light
I was ever foolish enough to see in you
Gripping my soul until I am drowned by contempt
The hate burning away the fog of light and goodness
Surrounding you
Until I finally see you for what you really are...

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Whispers …

By: Ashley Griffey

Whispers surrounding me.
Wrapping me in a blanket,
Taking hold unexpectedly,
Making me forget

Everyone thinks I’m crazy,
But I know more than them,
But unlike all others 
I never speak on a whim.

Listening closely 
And never letting go,
Words one forgets 
I always know....

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Soring high, wings spread
Dashing in and out the clouds
Racing with the wind, unknown to the sun
She draws her name in the sky
Claiming ownership to it's beauty
Worries has never entered her
No fear is she seeing way up
Blessed are the birds
Singing a hearts love
Taking hold of life
Is her wings as she soars through the air....

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And so the moon is full once more
Yet all but once more is
With its face is raised a heart
Yes, once more it lives
Beating much as days before
Something deep has changed
In this hour much the same
Something deep has changed 
Upon the rise, a waking tune
Taking hold of me
The very breath within my lungs
Has truly been set free...

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We once had a doggy named Dale

That loved taking hold of his tail

He’d chase it all-day

In circles, he’d play-

When able to snatch it he’d wail!


April 26, 2015

~3rd Place~   
Contest: Your Best Single Limerick - 5 lines only
Sponsor: Robert Haigh
Judged: 04/24/2018

~3rd Place~
Contest: Limerick Contest
Sponsor: Jan Allison
Judged: 04/29/2015
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Cold air rushes,
Chilling bones,
Biting bare skin
Left exposed

Icy blanket,
Scattered wide,
Calmly covers,
Ground and sky

Frigid fingers,
Make their mark
On sparkling canvas,
Smooth and stark

Howling winds
Bring powder soft,
Consuming all
In seas of frost

Floating pearls
So blinding white
Swirl and fall,
Obscuring sight

Ashen treasure
Crisp and cold –
Hand of winter
Taking hold....

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Returning to the empty void
Thoughts arising taking hold
Bitter twisted anguish leaping out
Silence deafening, need to shout

Escape the reality of modern life
Social meetings causing strife
Be who I want, with no come back
Empty shell, missing what I lack

Reaching out for others embrace
To feel a part of the human race
Twisted personality becoming a joke
To end this cycle before I choke
...

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Can you see the light?
In the Darkness?
Through the haze?
In the fog?
NO!

Opn your eyes.
Just take a look.
Deep breaths
See it now?
NO!

Lost in your darkness
Creeping in slowly 
Swallowing you whole
Hearing shrieks of pain
NO!!!!

Too late.
Already taking hold of you.
Sinking-down,down,down
Swallowed whole
NO!!!

Lies and tricks
You beileved them
Looking and searching
Old life lost
NO NO NO! 

That is the Demon's trap!...

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I realized today a deep existential anxiety 
Not for myself but for my country 
Which in many decades  
I have never before known 

I can sense it spreading, taking hold 
Everything seems like kindling ready to combust
Our eyes grow clouded and our breathing labored
As fear settles on the land like wildfire smoke 

I can see it all slipping away 
Like the weekend my father died 
Naked and powerless 
Bound to his fate

September 4, 2020...

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Just when I thought I had conquered the pain
Fear steps in again
Taking hold the reigns

My vision's clouded
Nothing's undoubted
Emotionally imprisoned
I'm starting to feel
 Like I'm going insane

Black to white
Joy to fright
There's just no gray for me

My fear of loss
All encompassing me
Wrapping me up in dark

I don't want to lose
But how can I gain?
I can't let anyone in
Or let things just be
Stuck in this circle
I'm aching to be free....

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Whirling, twirling lovers fly
Falling through the tree tops high.
Taking hold with all their might
Swirling love, alive in flight.
Floating down upon the breeze
Spinning round like maple seeds.
Holding tight, not letting go
Nearly touching down below,
Pulling free, then giving chase
Longing for another taste.
Calling out their sweethearts tune
Hoping for another boon.
Pairing up, one more time,
Sipping nectar so divine!


Tanya Harrington
For: Good Enough Contest...

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death takes hold on me 
blackness and doom is all i see
as my body lies rigamortis and cold
i shall see no more sunlight i am told

i gather my last breath 
as i let out the air i accept death
i am afraid of the unknown

where will my soul take its final resting place
i am leaving this earth to go to another realm
earth is all i knew 
now i am dead and do not know what to do 

death such sorrow to give up my life no tommorrow
it is over my  suffering my sorrow 
death has taking hold of me...

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Sitting in the waiting room her sunlit day; complying to their sequence
Amid a foregone conclusion ? Appearing suddenly out of nowhere
Ineffable somehow it seems this, March two thousand twelve's
National Geographic's copy titled, 'The Journey of the Apostles....
Theocracy's last supper sublime; tableaux ? Instinct taking hold slowly
Savoir-faire walking past these doors surely tis for me ? Sanctum sanctorum
Seder thirty years now, gone by ? Why his doctor queried; Angels in the mist hieros....

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