Courage Sorrow Poems

Her eyes swelled and swelled
With bitter tears
That lingered near...
She stood there and not here
Since she thought
It was better to cry, than to try to fly
Into...

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it's been a long night 
and I've been tracing your footsteps since the beginning
I am tired of the black it brings
of your shirt, the way...

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I am what you see
I am just me
Student of life
Trying to avoid any strife
As I walk my way
No where do I wish to stay
Same thing...

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"Sorrow" 

Reality cries its tears
of grief and fear 
calling out to Love 

the song heard 

in all of human kind
beseeching Love
in self, 

the conscious 
collective...

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Maybe I seek meaning in the press of sympathetic eyes
Maybe within me resides a cancerous longing to shatter into a million tiny pieces
Maybe I will...

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Sorrow had passed his way many times,
said the lines across his brow.
His truth was challenged again and again,
but to lies he refused to bow. 


Even...

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I never met but always appreciated Diane.
Through the media, I knew her first as a politician.
From my perspective, I knew her later as a good...

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Times be' low and times a' grough,
No rest behold a' lowly brough,
Sings a' song the mocking bird,
Head long plunged the sorry herd.

Copy and Paste all...

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by Max Burchett

Wars and rumors of war
it is said will be forevermore.
If that is the fate of mankind,
what are we to do?
How can we find
a...

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Like the oak, standing tall
Among the pines and juniper trees,
She remains strong – never releasing a tear,
Always prepared to reassure her kids,
Sooth and encourage, whisper...

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Wistful thoughts rain over my heart,
	Silencing my prayers, 
Erasing my hope –

This is melancholy, the reflective darkness,
	When doubts color me gray,
Desperate to take away the...

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I had a happy childhood at first
Yeah I played with dolls to a tragic
Extent. It was a dream of some
Type of female existence.  I...

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I was crushed and miserable from love unfulfilled
Like a mourning dove whose blood had been spilled

I cried in deep lament as shadowed night grew cold
Sorrow...

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I do not speak their words.
They're full of clichés and ideas that will never truly form.
I have tried to bend my tongue that way,
But it...

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I oft wonder what our life would be now,
   had I but the courage to stay with you somehow.

   No gold...

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