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Best Poems Written by Linda Eide

Below are the all-time best Linda Eide poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Drifting snow

Snow
Drifting slowly
In the night’s darkness
Stars play hide and seek
With the falling flakes
Sailing down city streets
We hold hands
Two strangers who found each other
To share a moment of our lives
Snow
The white of new promises
Soft as a pillow
For my head
Sleep and dream
Of blue skies and sunshine
Tomorrow
Yesterday’s memory
Joy light as a feather
Falls from the heavens
We laugh embrace
Say I love you
In the newly arrived day’s light

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Lost


I am the lost one
Wandering from city to city
Street to street
Like a leaf adrift on the sea of life
Once someone loved me
And gave me a name
Now I have become nobody
I want to say look at me here I am
We don’t have to talk I know you’re busy
Smile nod your head
I need to know I am still alive
Not just a ghost walking briefly through your day
The nights are cold, but the stars keep me company
I tell them my story and they listen
The darkness keeps my secrets
I do not like the sun
It takes the shadows away
Leaving me no place to hide
Too many eyes can see me in daylight
I prefer walking at night
Amid the solitude spun like a web
Under the trees
Once upon a time I wasn’t lost
I had a home clean sheets friends and family
Never understood how I lost myself
Is there anyone looking for me?

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the little black cat

And the time came
For the little black cat
To step into the night
Where she found stars shining brightly
The moon in her silver splendor
Hanging on the dark velvet of the sky
Like a precious jewel
She wandered down the street
And thought of the stories
Hiding behind closed doors
Saw dreams floating like a mist
Over the city
Even the flowers were sleeping
Like shadows in the silent gardens
Where are you going little black cat?
The wind whispered
I am off to see the world
Around the corner
Over the bridge 
The world is big and far away
Answered the wind
I will come with you
Yes of course answered the cat
But haven’t you seen the world many times
That I have little friend
And I have many stories to tell of what I saw
To share with you
As we go on our way

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Life






Is there really such a thing
As a life smooth as the sea in moonlight
No storms to darken the heavens
No sorrows to break a heart
Is it possible I wonder?
When sleep is elusive 
And tomorrow too far away to be real
Do all stories have a happy ending
And Prince Charming rescues the fair damsel
I gaze out the window
There is not much else to do
At midnight in a house filled with ghosts
And too many memories
Why do I cling to the hope
I will escape the evil ogre hiding in the attic
I am no longer a child
Who believes in dreams and promises
Hope refuses to die
I wait for the sun to come up
And play with the flowers in my garden
Maybe this is the day
My prince will come to rescue me
And take me away to his castle in the sky

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I love you


 

I love you 

 

Dear one I write you tonight 

From a faraway land to say I love you 

And I miss you more than words can say 

Somewhere in the darkness I hear guns being fired 

And I know someone is dying alone 

In a muddy field 

I wonder if tomorrow 

Will be my day to die 

Late at night when I can’t sleep 

I dream of home 

Mother’s garden and your angel smile 

My father waits to play checkers 

And I can smell the turkey cooking in the kitchen 

Darling, I want to be home 

With those who love me 

Not in a strange land 

Filled with ghosts 

These words are all I can give you 

Please try to understand them 

Promise me that if I am lost 

In this war I never wanted to fight 

You will find me 

I want to lie beneath our lilac tree 

Hear the birds singing 

Feel the breeze whisper in the grass 

I love you

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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

My God, my God why have you forsaken me? 

 

Lord with your hands 

You created me 

Placed love in my soul 

And beauty in my heart 

I come to you today 

Shattered into a million pieces 

Filled with fear and pain 

Where is the road back to you? 

I wait for your voice to guide me 

And find only silence in answer 

To my cry for help 

My Lord my Lord why have you abandoned me 

In my hour of need 

The darkness grows around me 

Even the stars hide their faces 

Are you there Lord? 

Can you hear me? 

I am a small part of your universe 

Did you forget me? 

The wind rises 

Here I am a voice whispers 

Here I am 

I turn and see him 

A man sitting on a park bench 

Smiling as if he knows a secret 

I have heard your cry he tells me 

Here I am, what can I do for you? 

On that night when all seemed lost 

I sat on a park bench with the Lord 

Creator of the universe 

And knew I was someone’s beloved 

He came to me as a smiling man 

To tell me I was his treasured child 

All was as it should be 

All would be well

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The call of the sea


The call of the sea 

 

I walk alone 

Amid the crowds 

Of unsmiling grim-faced people 

And dream of turning into a white bird 

And fly away 

From the noise surrounding me 

I hear in my heart 

The call of the sea 

Quiet under the moonlight 

I want to see each star 

Shining in the night sky 

And know peace 

Even as cars rush by 

In their hurry to get nowhere 

I ask myself 

If there is a magic word I can learn 

To turn myself into a white bird 

Flying over a sea 

Bathed in silver moonlight

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Can I come home?


Can I come home now Jesus?

It seems I’ve been away a long time

I got lost you see

All the roads looked the same to me

And the lights were never so dark and cold

As when you weren’t there at my side

Can I come home now Jesus?

I’ve been very lonely without you

There was no one to listen to my stories

Or share my tears when I was sad

I don’t know if you noticed Lord

But your world is not very friendly

For the poor you loved so much

Can I come home now Jesus?

I can’t promise to be perfect every day

Or to remember to give thanks for your blessings

Occasionally you’ll shake your head

And wonder about me

Or why I got into such a mess

When you were there waiting to help me

How could I forget the heavenly Father’s

Enduring love for me?

And when I do come home Jesus

May I leave behind the fear that haunts me

The voices telling me I am worthless

The past that lives in my todays and tomorrows

May I live your promise of peace and love

When you open your arms

And welcome me hom

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A mother's grief

A mother’s grief

I never wanted you to go to war it was your father’s idea said it would make you a man to be away from me cut the apron strings he said. You were my baby boy wrapped in a grown man’s body mine after so much waiting and now I had to say good-bye with a smile on my face and tears filling my heart. I didn’t speak to your father for a week after you left but then I realized he missed his boy too, only he had to hide his sorrow wouldn’t do to let me think he was weak. We lived for your letters but after reading a few I said he could have them they felt as if a stranger were writing them. I wanted to believe it when you said you were safe that the fighting always took place far from where you were, but I read the newspapers, and they told a different story. At night when the house was too quiet, I could hear you crying, for me could feel the cold and the mud where you slept and your fear as if I were at your side. Then the boys from the village, those who went with you, started to die and I realized I shouldn’t wait for you anymore, you were not coming back to me. Instead, I turned to the past and the little boy who lived in my memories. The day they came to tell me you were dead was such a beautiful day I knew you were smiling at me from heaven. How could you be gone when I felt you near me wherever I went? We had a funeral for you a bugler played the last post, and I knew I should cry so people would know I mourned my boy but not a tear fell. I couldn’t let anyone see how much I missed you. There’s no reason for the days to come around anymore. I want to be with you, but it seems I must stay here a bit longer. The house is silent. Your father and I have nothing to say to each other. Whoever invented war did not have a son to be left behind while life for some reason kept on going with nothing left in it.

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Emi


 

Emi is a little black cat 

Who knows quite a lot 

For instance, she learned one night 

That angels hang stars in the sky 

The moon is made of catnip 

And trees tell stories 

When the wind whispers in their branches 

Emi knows 

That sunshine was made to tickle 

A kitten’s belly 

And grass makes a soft carpet 

For tired paws 

If you promise to keep a secret 

She will tell you that Pocko 

Is in love with Maisie Cat 

Norman ate the last ice cream cone 

And Moo hid the red ball under the bed 

Emi knows about birds 

And wishes she could fly like her friend 

Jack Robin who comes for a visit every afternoon 

To eat worms and share stories of his travels 

There’s Maggie Magpie and her family 

Who come for tea and a bit of gossip 

When Emi is lonely 

She is indeed a wise cat our Emi 

Who knows quite a lot