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  April 2024     8 days ago

Submitted Poems 4 total

Tartar Memory

In a storybook land, at a sidewalk cafe
On Satpaev Avenue, I dreamily
Gazed into the eyes of a Tartar fay,
Giving my heart away too hastily.

Enchanted days passed on so speedily,
Leaving my mind ensnared in a pixie
Spell I surrendered to so...

– by Darren Penland

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Holy of Holies

I long for the inner sanctuary;
There I'm tucked away from all grief and care.
Alone with thoughts at once sublime and rare,
I inhale a better, purified, air.

Free from the rustle of the outer world,
Free from its pain and worrying grief,
I...

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Eden

In a sunny, breezy foreign strand,
She quietly gave me heart and hand.
The azure waves serenely rolling
Lazily lapped the silv'ry sand.

Coconut leaves were slowly stirring
The breezes, salty tresses blowing,
A sun-soaked Elysian land,
...

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The Revelation

Robed in terrible majesty,
the Son of God goes riding forth.
Thousands, glorious procession,
follow his wake in radiant white,
luminescent, shining bright!

From the wedding he now is come,
to judge the world in righteousness.
Dreadful, his...

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Beautiful poem! Wonderful theme.

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I really enjoyed that! You have a wonderful talent. I loved the way every line rhymed.

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Thank you so very much! I really appreciate your kind words!

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