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Amateur song lyric writer branching out now into poetry.

  May 2022     8 days ago

Submitted Poems 12 total

Blue Horizons

I had dreams of blue horizons
So I wandered far and wide
Climbing mountains, crossing oceans
Pushing all my doubts aside

In the sunlight, in the moonlight
I could hear a constant call
In the chambers where my heart beats
Walls of fear began...

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Never

I never loved how snow
Makes the landscape more pristine
Or how flowers burst in colors
Amid a meadow’s green
I never loved to see
Lightning split the sky in two
And I never, never, never
Loved you

I never loved a quiet dinner
Wine and...

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Take Me Back

Where are the float-on-air days
The ones I don’t want to forget
When we danced to the magical feeling
The bright sun just might never set?

Take me back

Where are the long ago times
Our evening embrace was so tight
And we shared what each...

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Death Did Not Take Me

I ask for no mourning
My spirit survives
I’ll be with you always
So please dry your eyes

Death did not take me
For I live on
Every time voices
Are lifted in song
Every time someone
Rights what is wrong

Death did not take me
For I...

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I Want to Smell Roses

Falling leaves twirling
Northern lights swirling
Crystal waves curling
As they race to the shore

Full moon’s pale presence
Stars in the heavens
Thunder that deafens
Every time that it roars

River that rushes
Snowfall that hushes
...

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Latest Comments: 32 total

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Beautiful and heartfelt and so full of love.

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The last line is devastatingly good. I admire a writer who can dream up a scenario like this then slay with the final words.

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Congratulations! Wonderful poem!

2 months ago

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Ha ha. Thanks, but Blue Horizons is my first time in the top three after many contest submissions. I don't have a magic formula!

2 months ago

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Thanks so much, Adam!

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Thank you so much!

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This is a really good piece that everyone of a certain age can relate to. I gave my vote to the poem that came in second place, but it was down to that one and yours.

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Thanks!

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Thank you so much!

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I appreciate your comments so much!

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Thanks so much!

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Thanks for your comments. I am lucky that I met a woman who shares my sense of adventure!

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Thank you!

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Thanks!

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Thanks!

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