THE SILENT KISS
The quiet between us settles into light,
a hush that weighs more than any word ever spoken
Your breath leans closer as if to speak my name.
Yet nothing breaks the air, no sound is heard.
A shaking pause:
time loosens its embrace,
the fading light leans in,
holding our hearts in place,
I feel a promise hover on my lips,
a secret
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Categories:
vow, love, romance,
Form: Lyric
When the vow breaks
There's a quiet kind of ache,
deeper than any silence I've known.
It sits inside, a heavy stone,
a loneliness that lives and makes
its home where two souls are meant to be one.
This is the loneliness of being married.
Of sharing walls, a daily spread,
a bed where two bodies are laid.
But still feeling unseen, a hidden shade.
Untouched, though hands
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Categories:
vow, break up, divorce, loneliness,
Form: Rhyme
Our Better Angels
Our Better Angels
The polished floor reflects a moonlit gleam,
A silent chapel holding a dark dream.
I etched my plea into a cold white tile,
A fragile hope against a coming wile.
But from the smooth surface, a form takes hold,
A sister to the stories left untold.
Her eyes, like shards of glacial ice, are keen,
Reflecting landscapes desolate and mean.
I
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Categories:
vow, angel, dark, gothic,
Form: Classicism
Everlasting Vow
N-uptial
E-ndurance
S-uccessfully
T-riumphs
O-ver
R-ough
&
S-eas,
U-sing
S-olid
A-ffection
N-everendingly
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Monocrostic (Anniversary of Nestor & Susan Panganiban)
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Categories:
vow, anniversary,
Form: Other
Wedding poem Wedding Vows
May we forever be lovers,
May we forever be friends,
And should we hurt each other,
May we quickly make amends.
May we enjoy our passion,
But never let compassion die,
Thinking in selfless terms as we,
Never emphasising I.
May we forever be soul-mates,
May our love eternally last,
May the food of love sustain us,
May we never have to fast.
May we use each
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Categories:
vow, love, love hurts, marriage,
Form: Rhyme
Time for champagne
Lift the champagne glass for a toast,
Make the night sparkle with delight.
Neither of us will sleep till dawn—
On our bed, love waits patiently.
Please, let’s not break the vow we made.
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Name: Maclawrence Famuyiwa
Poem date: June 11th, 2025
Contest title: Abecederian In Five Poetry Contest
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Categories:
vow, cute love, drink, friendship
Form: Abecedarian
Give me the Rhythm
Our love isn't a mime, nor a rhyming song,
But one we sing that stings with grief and shame.
A robe we wear with sorrow all night long,
Our hearts no longer with passion's flame.
The ripened time prepares to draw us wide,
Our bond not stronger than a weathered stone.
We stumble, yet let silence be our guide—
Love suffers round
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Categories:
vow, dedication, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Sonnet
Abandon Not Your Vow
Abandon not your vow to do what is right
Built upon integrity along sincere practice
Cling to your commitment with steadfastness
Directed toward service and reaching-out.
Exhorted for loyalty and fidelity’s tenacity
Fulfill your role well with honest heart
Guarded against hypocrisy’s destruction
Hoisted for readiness to help by God’s grace.*
*1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath
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Categories:
vow, blessing, christian, encouraging, faith,
Form: ABC
Untitled, Undefined
I don’t know if he needs me, or if he wants me near,
But I can't help wishing I could calm his fear.
Whether he asks for comfort or not, I still care,
I want to be the one who’s always there.
I keep my face calm, though it’s hard to pretend,
But inside my heart, I can’t stop wishing
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Categories:
vow, art, care, conflict, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
PROMISE
vow you all of me
as much as you enchants me
much more, never less
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Categories:
vow, allusion, blessing, perspective, poetry,
Form: Haiku
Marriage Vow
One couple pledge
A marriage vow
Build golden dream.
Together bound
Sewed a love thread
Desiring trend.
Side by side sit
Facing altar
Promise each kept.
Hand in hand grip
Switching ring
Switch vow, kissing.
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Categories:
vow, marriage, proposal, relationship,
Form: Than-Bauk
Moonlight vow
You are my favorite person
I'll fall for no Allison
As we sit in the dark moonlight
I promise to keep you alright
Even if we don't stay together forever
I will cherish the momentswhile we had each other
I look at your face and I feel wow
I look at me and then at you and I think how?
As long as
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Categories:
vow, appreciation, beautiful, black love,
Form: Free verse
Whispers of a Christmas vow
On a cold winter's eve, in the sparkling stones
A love was born, under the magic of the night.
The first time the gleaming friends met, hearts swayed,
Marking a new beginning, in the warmth of cookies and Christmas.
Handwritten words, soft as that dream,
Where we shared glances secretly, in a gleam.
Coffee brewed with the gentle grace,
In your eyes
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Categories:
vow, christmas, love, magic, winter,
Form: Free verse
A Doctor’s Vow
Through nights that steal both sleep and rest,
I give my all, and hope for best.
Each heartbeat tells a tale unknown,
A life I guide, yet not my own.
With science sharp and spirit high,
I soothe the soul, though some must die.
No gold or fame shall mark my name,
For duty, not for worldly claim.
Where sickness treads, I’ll take
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Categories:
vow, health, passion,
Form: Rhyme
The Vow
(A lone voice whispers)
I'll buy a white silk ribbon
Tonight
From O'Mallys
My love
On our golden wedding anniversary
Lay it on your favourite glass dresser
The one we bought in the snow
A few months ago
Light one of your white perfumed candles near it from Reardon and Sons
Visualise all our cherished memories
Together
Within it
Then tie it
Into a sacred
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Categories:
vow, grief,
Form: Rhyme
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