WHEN DARKNESS FALLS, HOLD ON TO HOPE
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In sorrow's dark and lonely night,
Have you lost loved ones, or labored in vain for light?
Has joy's sweet melody been shattered by life's unseen hand?
Fear not, dear heart, for hope's sweet bal...
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Categories:
sweet balm, allusion, engagement, inspirational, muse,
Form: Lyric
THE SILENCE THAT WHISPERS
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Peaceful as a frozen lake by a quiet winter's dawn
still as the silence that whispers to us, like a fawn
Drawn to the air in our lungs as we gently engage
side by side in a world of great ...
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Categories:
sweet balm, peace,
Form: Rhyme
In the vast field of beings, some are stars casting kindness
...In the vast field of beings, some are stars casting kindness,
Somehow born with a mirage that drips mercy of its own accord.
They traverse valleys and deserts, spreading, unwavering, their pure ess...
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Categories:
sweet balm, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Almost Like a Psalm
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In hues of grace, wonders never fade beneath the starry skies who sing of in softest tones – precious, perfect psalms ~ quote by poet
Reflections of the heart glisten through ...
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Categories:
sweet balm, appreciation, god, gospel, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Halos of a Thousand Lashes
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“Halos of a Thousand Lashes”
Sweet dreams
for runnaway children
looking for nursery rhymes
a sweet balm comes to mind
fairy songs sung
to close their eyes
flutter...
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Categories:
sweet balm, love, muse,
Form: Free verse
In the Dappled Shade
..."Life is serene on a hammock with the ocean waves crashing behind you"
- by Poet
Beautiful beach beckons, its sand pristine,
Cra...
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Categories:
sweet balm, joy, peace, sea,
Form: Dizain
Anxiety: a Fight To the End
...One finds themselves full of anxiousness
you don't know where it starts
and unsure when it will finish
its mark is left deep in your heart
In this battle, one wants to overcome
a spirit within...
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Categories:
sweet balm, anxiety, courage, people,
Form: Rhyme
At Times
...nothing needs be said
to calm the turmoil within churning
your voice sweet balm soothes
quenches my thirst
appeases the throbbing
wild inside my chest
its savage emptiness
that tears awa...
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Categories:
sweet balm, longing, passion, sensual, together,
Form: Free verse
Sunday Morning
...The morning comes, dawning
slowly, as I arise once more --
mind meandering, sleepily yawning,
sunlight creeping through my door.
My mewing cat demands a morning meal
while distant church bells...
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Categories:
sweet balm, cat, good morning, sunshine,
Form: Rhyme
No - I Am Not Prince Hamlet, Nor Was Meant To Be
...Pray, my lord, says the priest. ‘Tis sweet balm for the soul,
and he, he sees yours-
Lord, I hope not- you think.
‘O! there are spirits of the air!’
a poet will write centuries after they give yo...
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Categories:
sweet balm, death, murder, remember,
Form: Free verse
Know This
...Now here
Nowhere near
This space
Full of grace
This time
Where chimes rhyme
This face
Now in place
This smile
In good style
This touch
Just as much
This core
Know...
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Categories:
sweet balm, blessing,
Form: Couplet
Cacophony
...Come around then
With choice that calls,
That moment when
Sweet confronts gall.
Filter odd noise
With cautious calm,
Signal sure poise
That spreads sweet balm.
Here as time flings
Ea...
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Categories:
sweet balm, change,
Form: Couplet
Numb Blank
...Picture silence deep,
Stillness yet blooming;
Awake beyond sleep,
A sure becoming.
Retreat to a calm,
A certain knowing;
Numb blank spreads sweet balm,
A succinct feeling.
Breathe in ...
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Categories:
sweet balm, change,
Form: Quatrain
The Boardwalk and the Blue Fairy
...The sugar sweet balm of salt water taffy
graced the breeze.
While savoring deep breaths of this seaside confection,
I held tightly, my grandmother’s hand.
I was five years old and we...
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Categories:
sweet balm, beach, childhood, fairy, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Soul Thirst Quench
...In draining sand I trace the line
the tide has made in bubbles, fine,
where scalloped wavelets sloped in foam,
halt the ocean’s wide ro...
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Categories:
sweet balm, sea,
Form: Couplet
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