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Best Poems Written by James Wright

Below are the all-time best James Wright poems as chosen by PoetrySoup members

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Emotional Warriors

Thy hatred of thy self 
More consuming then that 
Of a thousand oceans

In thy mind a battle ground
Of the most colossal stages
Grander the that of
The Roman Colosseum

Between two opponents
Both grander than that of Goliath himself

Two emotions fight
As if warriors possessed
Hatred and happiness
Dark and light

Though I hope for happiness
The darkness of hatred
Can cloud even the brightest of hopes days

The minds battle settles
With a realization
For both warriors
For both emotions
For thy mind
To know true happiness
To know true peace
Both emotions
Must be in balance

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Learning Love

We say love is kind
Love is patient 
But I say
Love learns to be 
Kind and patient

Through the people it hurt
People it lost
People it killed
People it helped
People it scared
 
But once loves journey
Is over
It settles down
With another love 
To be how we say kind and patient

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One So Lovely

The death of one so lovely
Is truly a tragedy
Of the grandest scales
Unmatched by most

When life once breathed
Its lovely aroma into
Her ever tender
Body
It was full
Of beauty and love
Of compassion and kindness

Yet when death took 
Its ugly hand upon her
Beauty and drained
It all away
Yet even in death 
Her beauty still shines
As bright as a thousand suns

Tis such a tragedy 
To take someone
Away who brought
True happiness and bliss
To even the most depressed

Tis a tragedy 
That will never
Be fully forgiven

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Love You Forevermore

I love you
I love your smile
I love your laugh
I love your beauty
I love your mind
I love your heart
I love your soul
But most importantly I simply love you
For you truly are an angel
That blessed my heart forevermore
I wish I could tell you more
Though fear we do not have the time
So I’ll simply say I love you forevermore

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Funny Family

Family is a funny word
It’s meant to mean the world 
But to some its lesser than dirt 
You can choose who you call family
But what if you can’t 
Then the ones you call family
Leave 
Run
Hide
From the monster they made you 
Then what can you tell that monster for he knows the truth about
The word family

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Drugs of Take and Give

Drugs take
Drugs give
Drugs take from the family
Drugs give to the addict 
Drugs take life from the family
Drugs give life to the addict
Drugs take happiness from the family
Drugs give happiness to the addict
Drugs take a member of the family
Drugs give the addict to the angels and demons
He so sought in his most desperate of times

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Angel

My angel
From up above 
You make my heart sore
To places, only you could take it
For you truly love me and I you
You blessed a devil
For a devil and an angel know true bliss
In forever’s sweet kiss

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To Say

To say I love you
Could never do my feelings justice
For a thousand years I could search 
And still never truly find a way to tell you
How much I truly love you
For you are my happiness 
My strength
My soul 
My heart
My world
For this list could never end
So, I’ll simply say I love you

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Truth Repeating

To kill oneself is 
To take from all
One life
One joke 
Was all it took
To drown one person
In a sea of sorrows
But truly drowned a thousand more
One person had no one
But truly had a thousand
A tale to be repeated
Over and over
A sad truth
Till the end of time

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Monster Era

We are creatures
Born of a different era
In our own minds
Monsters and demons are born
Of disasters and scorn
Trying to control 
Our life
Our time
Monsters
Demons
Creatures of another era
Begone for you do not belong
In our lives 
Our time
Our era