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Best Poems Written by Jeffrey Shover

Below are the all-time best Jeffrey Shover poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Love With Scent

Flowing freely your ebony hair
like the night sky
scattering fragrance 


my heart clamoring in my chest
like a storm you triffle with it

your pristine glance
like a feast when you smile


my thoughts disturbed
my breath like opium
it drives me mad

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Love With Scent

Flowing freely your ebony hair
like the night sky
scattering fragrance 


my heart clamoring in my chest
like a storm you triffle with it

your pristine glance
like a feast when you smile


my thoughts disturbed
my breath like opium
it drives me mad

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Short But Great

I still have alot to think about in my life and everything
but today i think was good
for me at least

I wrote a blog and realized...... i am a great personIi am caring loving thoughtful I 
and  am always thinking about others
usually more then myself
I have my flaws yes... but i have a big heart

and i think thats really important
im lookin for a job next tuesday
I found myself (somewhat)
I just hope it all gets better

I do have great things in my life that i am
very grateful for i cry alot but i smile
my heart may be breaking all the time
but it never stops loving and giving

im going to be the best i can
and by doing that im going to be me
im going to try to stay positive all the time

I know it wont happen but at least im trying....

im going to focus on myself


marriage can wait
kids can wait
but poetry makes me happy
so im going to be into it as much as possible

ill stress about it 
no i dont like my looks
and no i dont think ill ever go anywhere in life
but it never hurts to try right

its important to focus on yourself i think because focusin on yourself just might save
your life 
because focusing on yourself is like fighting for something really important
so..

im off to find myself


Cause love is just that much better when your actually there

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Dark

like a migrant thai worker
i pedal my bicycle on the 
village path hunched over
dark my face covered against
the dust the dogs bark at me

the bees slammed into my forehead
and the scent of a distant homeland
assault my nostrils and like his letters 
back  home 

silverplating the sweat of his brow

my poems two are wrapped in darkness 
that covers my longing

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Short But Great

I still have alot to think about in my life and everything
but today i think was good
for me at least

I wrote a blog and realized...... i am a great personIi am caring loving thoughtful I 
and  am always thinking about others
usually more then myself
I have my flaws yes... but i have a big heart

and i think thats really important
im lookin for a job next tuesday
I found myself (somewhat)
I just hope it all gets better

I do have great things in my life that i am
very grateful for i cry alot but i smile
my heart may be breaking all the time
but it never stops loving and giving

im going to be the best i can
and by doing that im going to be me
im going to try to stay positive all the time

I know it wont happen but at least im trying....

im going to focus on myself


marriage can wait
kids can wait
but poetry makes me happy
so im going to be into it as much as possible

ill stress about it 
no i dont like my looks
and no i dont think ill ever go anywhere in life
but it never hurts to try right

its important to focus on yourself i think because focusin on yourself just might save
your life 
because focusing on yourself is like fighting for something really important
so..

im off to find myself


Cause love is just that much better when your actually there

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The Mask

get a grip im expected to succeed 
face fear be strong take the lead
not hesitate in thought of deed
my mask must never slip


man up,keep my thoughts inside
no one can know how much i cried 
when the rockets came and the fear arrived
my mask must never slip

crack on theres no time to reflect or admit
that i did genuflect and prayed to god 
me to protect , 
my mask must never slip

chin up worry not bout how i feel
never let them know just how surreal
it was dark thoughts i cannot reveal
my mask must never slip

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Fallen

i walk down the street 
and stop at the bus stop
i post one of my poems for all to see

;what do you think of me; 
;am i freak or am i oh so cool;
;dressed in black am i tiger or a pussycat;

am i scary or am i normal?

read my words and you will see
the deeper soul burns within me
my heart starts to bleed

i sit at home 
paint my self portrait
i skip down to the art gallery
as the rain smacks against the concrete

i post my portrait at the entrance door
do you want more
you can see more reality in this piece
than anything that lies beyond this door

i sit on the floor 
waiting for your reaction
your eyes are pickin me apart
painfully 
slowly

the passers fail by emotion
too wrapped up in thier days
in God and man we shall trust

for our tides are too wrapped in darkness

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Robbed

robbed of pride and free will swallowing that bitter pill
lessons in patience and humility nothing prison can do for me
                                                                                                                                      
       will ever dimminish my divinity
                                                                                                                                      
     knowing such truth i strive and s
survive     keeping the flame within my heart 
alive                                                                                                                             



lest i should hunger wither die...


Robbed.

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Lessons

do away with medals 
and remembrence parades
those boys were brave 
we know but look at where 
it got them

reduced to line after perfect line
of white stones 

immobile 
glorious
exciting

to kids who havent yet learned 
that bullets dont make little red holes

they

rip 
smash
gouge
and drag the worlds dirt behind them
remember lads you wont get laid 
no matter how good your war stories

if your dead so 

melt down the medals
fuel the fire with
paper poppies
war books

And arnie films stop playin with the pipes
banging with drums

and stop writing
 poems about it

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Viral Circle

This life we live in, is a never ending dream.
It's not what it seems, it's not what it seems. 



Consciousness gliding, when pains all but subsiding. 
Cognition of the decisions we've taken and weaved.

 
Quick, swift and slick, resolution sets in. 
The calm settles in. The calm settles in. 


Tides of rest are flowing, my heart's pound is going. 
Ambition is winning, and a new start to begin.