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Sweet Balm Poems - Poems about Sweet Balm

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

Premium MemberTHE 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



Premium MemberIn 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

Premium MemberAlmost 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



Premium MemberIn 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

Premium MemberAnxiety: 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

Premium MemberAt 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

Premium MemberSunday 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

Premium MemberKnow 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

Premium MemberCacophony

...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

Premium MemberNumb 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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