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Sappho

I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh
When the dull day is passing by.
I sigh at evening, and again
I sigh when night brings sleep to men.
Oh! it were far better to die
Than thus forever mourn and sigh,
And in death's dreamless sleep to be
Unconscious that none weep for me;
Eased from my weight of heaviness,
Forgetful of forgetfulness,
Resting from care and pain and sorrow
Thro' the long night that knows no morrow;
Living unloved, to die unknown,
Unwept, untended, and alone.

poem by Christina Georgina Rossetti
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Tongues Of Thorns

You think that I
Who broke your dream;
All that you lent
Was wasted there,
And I who spoke
In rhyme and scheme
Have lost the tongues
I tempted there.

You tear my shroud
Of wings and sighs
To leave me cold,
Unloved and lost,
While I live out
My storms and cries
In search of warmth
Beneath your dust.

But you stare long
At some surprise

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poem by David Lewis Paget
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Soul Less

And he walks soul less.
the past dark and endless.
skeltons we all have.
his always whispering.
And he walks soul less.

Grass green, but he cant smell it.
sky blue but he cant see it
life wonderess. but he has forgotten.
And he walks soul less.

Towards a destiny he cant avoid
a destiny he fears he created.
a destiny paid for in spades.
And he walks soul less

Scared, broken, unloved, shamed.
the ground all his eyes now ponder.
a man in body only.
And he walks soul less

poem by Vincent Armone
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Until You

Emblazened in your warm embrace
Oh never let me go
So light and ethereal i do feel
Loving the you i have come to know

You swept me off of my feet
Caressed my wearied brow
Took me in from the unforgiving
Night
Embraced by the here and now

With You there are never cold days
No days feeling unloved and alone
But only heated up warm times
Our love has only grown

I thank my lucky stars
As i lay so excitedly in Your arms
Ah such sweet fate destiny 'tis
Secumbing myself to all fo Your charms

poem by Theodora Onken
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Child of God

When darkest sins stole all my joy,
and I was left to rot alone,
in wicked thoughts that all destroy,
in desperate cry and endless groan,

surrounded by former deceives,
when all my friends had gone for good,
I lived my life among the thieves,
unloved and lost, misunderstood,

You came with grace and brought me peace,
You came with love, my life's renewed,
and suddenly my joy increased,
You filled my heart with gratitude.

I'm dreaming now of Heaven's shores,
New Child of God, forever Yours.

poem by Marius Alexandru (March 2022)
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Torture of Freedom

Freedom is just
A word a thing
People say
Freedom is a thing
Every man deserves
Lust, greed, envy
Is what this word brings
War a word unloved
Comes from this
Wars won, wars lost
Freedom has come at late
Freedom is just
A thing a word
That allows a man
To greed, lust, and envy
It allows one to desire
No law there is none
Twisted, tormented
It has become
Limits needed yet refused

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poem by Tommy D'Attore
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A Childs Pain Gone

An angel came down from above
filled with kindness and love
Sent to protect, to guide, to surround
this child from pains of lifes tide

This precious child had cried so hard
till the angel holding the child so close
smiled I'll protect you little one for after
tonight you'll be forever alright

Come the break of day the angel
lifted up the child, held so tight
In an instant they were in flight

Once in Heaven the child received
blessings upon blessings from above
Feelings of love and happiness never
again to be hurt, abused or unloved

poem by Rhonda Pilcher
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Wardrobe-skeletons

The perils of wardrobe skeletons
Holding keys to abandoned souls.
And hearts covered with lesions…
Rattling in self-confining asbos

Is a self-abuse shadowy iceberg?
That prohibits all natural warmth…
Whatever germinates is a stillbirth?
A trust, that's eventually abhorred.

Healing can only come from within,
Absolving doesn't arrive easily.
Neither does the strength to forgive.
Who wants to act - reasonably?

It's skeletons that should suffer
An eternity to loiter - unloved
Locked in their airless; lifeless, coffins
Conduit ice flows bumping abrupt.

poem by Mark Heathcote
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Forgotten house

This great house was abandoned to decay
Forgotten unloved but here it does stay
Sun bleached wood cracking in the heat of the day
Paint simply peeled completely away

This great house a shadow of it former self
Golden stonework hint at its previous wealth
Ivy growing and spreading over the surface with stealth
Stone flaking blackened show its bad health

This house has great dark blackened windows
No inner light to give its previous known golden glow
No movement for here ice has fallen its soul has froze
In this house forgotten once golden now noone knows

poem by Micron
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On The Companionship With Nature

Let us be much with Nature; not as they
That labour without seeing, that employ
Her unloved forces, blindly without joy;
Nor those whose hands and crude delights obey
The old brute passion to hunt down and slay;
But rather as children of one common birth,
Discerning in each natural fruit of earth
Kinship and bond with this diviner clay.
Let us be with her wholly at all hours,
With the fond lover's zest, who is content
If his ear hears, and if his eye but sees;
So shall we grow like her in mould and bent,
Our bodies stately as her blessèd trees,
Our thoughts as sweet and sumptuous as her flowers.

poem by Archibald Lampman
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