November 28, 2019
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
I’m Thankful For You:
My Wife
My Children
My Family
My Friends
My Followers And Readers
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April 6, 2019
by HemmingPlay

Death is not bitter
death is a silence
But dying is bitter.
Dying is hard.
With you,
it was the sound.
It was like drowning,
no detail spared,
in slow motion…
with metastases of cancer
that filled the lungs
and grew, sending out
ghastly spawn to live in bone
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February 6, 2019
by Colly

When God made husband and wife…
He was hoping that we would…
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January 6, 2019
by Jem Croucher

I was not mistaken
The light it was there
As the brightness envelops
me here in its glare
That promise of hope
which each new year brings
Echos crescendo
as unison sings
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January 5, 2019
by Jem Croucher

With one foot in yellow
the other in white
My pace takes me forward
with promise in sight
At present the mist
O’er floodplains obscures
But behind it the light
like a bright beacon lures
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January 4, 2019
by Jem Croucher

In white there’s essence of the new
January starts the year afresh
As we from hibernation
awaken from our winter rest
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January 1, 2019
by Jem Croucher
No.5 of 12 in the Jemverse ’12 months II’ series

Galanthus greets this New Year’s day
Snowdrop heads due reverence show
and as a new sun rises
sleep heads all come to know
That here is opportunity
A promise waiting in the wings
heralding the new, a first
Tugging at those old heartstrings
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December 14, 2018
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Forgiveness
Second Chances
Grace
Do Overs
We Don’t Like
To Think Of Ourselves
As Cold
Unforgiving
Prejudicial
Or Judgmental
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November 11, 2018
by thereluctantpoet

By Charles Robert Lindholm
Armistice Day Came
An Illusion Of Peace
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September 30, 2018
by thereluctantpoet

THREE THINGS
Budda
Three Things
Cannot Be Long Hidden:
The Sun,
The Moon,
And The Truth.
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May 16, 2018
by S Francis
1.
To the beginning son, go back with me
Remember how I stood beside you when…
No, you only remember my absence.
Here we return with precision, an arrow
Fired by the great Tell who reveals us.
The apple on our heads, the gift of Eve
Who saw in us the beginning of Love.
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May 12, 2018
by S Francis
Now, where are the words
The heart needs?
Sort through its four chambers
To mix blood for the body to keep moving,
If not forward,
Any motion is better than none.
From chamber to chamber
Soft walls,
Trim dangles,
Ceiling cracked,
Windows frosted with dust.
These images attract hope.
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March 20, 2018
by thereluctantpoet

By Charles Robert Lindholm
Rainbows,
A Vision Of Beauty
Amid Cloudy Skies
A Symbol Of Hope
And Promise
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March 8, 2018
by cmapillay
“Sleep isn’t just a sleep anymore, it’s an escape”
Teary eyes with Muffled cries
Strength lost and Hope dies
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February 22, 2018
by Venkat

on this round leaf, of blue and brown
you let me in, a tendril with a heart
curling my feelings, of yesterday
thinning my dreams, into tomorrow
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February 8, 2018
by thereluctantpoet

photo by Jacco Rienks via Unsplash
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Look Elsie!
Erma was right!
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January 26, 2018
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
I Survive The Pain
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January 18, 2018
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
I have an obstacle
to achieving inner peace
I do my best to attain
inner tranquility
each day
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January 11, 2018
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
I Sit In Darkness
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January 11, 2018
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Poetry =
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January 1, 2018
by Jem Croucher
No. 6 of 12 in the Jemverse ‘Twelve Months’ series

Delicate, I bow my head
To the first day of the year
And give to it my blessing
For happiness and cheer
Twenty eighteen, here at last
January one
I bring a snowdrop promise
To the year that’s just begun
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November 3, 2017
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
I am made of dust
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October 26, 2017
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Poetry =
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September 27, 2017
by thereluctantpoet
By Charles Robert Lindholm
Poetry =
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September 20, 2017
by Tanya
All the more
they say,
I switch back
in time ..
To times,
I have been on a high
with all the love
poured with joy..
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September 12, 2017
by Tanya
A tiring day,
with those drenched brows
I walk out
in despair and no hope..
Looking down
at the earthly floor
I look up
for a shoulder for my tears to pour..
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September 3, 2017
by Linda Lee Lyberg
August, 1987
-Linda Lee Lyberg
I wait in the wings for my one true love
Grasping my memories near my heart
I want to shout to the heavens above
But my voice ends in silence before it starts.
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August 28, 2017
by thereluctantpoet
By Fiona Renshaw and Charles Robert Lindholm
Angel tears fall from the sky,
As they lay watching from the clouds,
Saddened by the world they see,
They cry to see our fear.
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