Reassurance Poems

Some nights it's bound to be your best way out,
When nightmare is the short end of the stick,
When sleep is a part of town where it's not safe
To walk at night, when waking is the only way
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a cloud came down
and spread over
it kept on coming
closer and closer
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We have to ascertain and make it sure
Life is not alone for sex and pleasure
It asks for self devotion and assurance
Safety and pledge for double reassurance
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I’ve never owned a teddy bear (aw…)

my parents read the child-rearing bibles
of the time, maybe that’s what it was
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Here sits a boy so in love with this girl,
But he won't say a word cause it sets him in a whirl.
And it won't stop spinning untill he can find
some rest, reassurance or peace of mind,
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I have fallen sick many times in life,
So also, I have hurt myself many times.
As a dancer, there is always some kind
Of physical ailment or pain,
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Too young to know the horrors of a war I've fought,
too young to know war's fear, or yearn for heroism,
but old enough to have lived through;
boys but one year older than myself
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He stands outside the window.
-Nemesis-
His hunter’s senses
Can detect the two beings inside the room.
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When peace came,
I showered under streaming light
- Silent, settling -
Effectuating over all -
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Warm cocktail of happiness and pain
Sometimes the eyes cannot hold this disdain
unsaid constricts and the volcano erupts
ending a painful conflict within
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I was so sorry, really.
On closing our heavy door
a slight resistance was detected
as if the hinges needed grease.
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The West Village by then was changing; before long
the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge
would have slipped into trendier hands. She lived,
impervious to trends, behind a potted hedge of
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I didn’t look both ways before crossing
Into what proved to be the intersection of my life.
The traffic racing by only served to blur my vision of you from across the street.
Passers by were the recollections of your countenance
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Did they already have the image of that creature
grazing deep within their heart and mind
before the day when it revealed itself, gentle, sweet and mild,
living its life of glorious detachment,
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Family Dynamics and War

They both saw their faces reflected in each others tears
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What woman really does need in life?
Merely to stay in house as wife
Carry out normal activities throughout
Should know nothing what the life all about!
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You were inseparable part
My life from the start
A precious diamond
And worth none to second
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O earth, sufficing all our needs, O you
With room for body and for spirit too,
How patient while your children vex their souls
Devising alien heavens beyond your blue!
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Politics these days has such crazy-quilt aspects to it, it is difficult to figure out what is going on.
The Blue Dog democrats lost whose very existence made people wonder if the democrats were Dogs or Donkeys. I say both.

Similarly, the Republicans have become confused with being a mighty
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Whilst winter remains ensconced
You break bleakness over coldness embers
Fires stoke to orange and coax blues warm
to remember, bearing revitalisation
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Her skin white as milk
Dressed up in silk

She too was caught
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Fear is something that eats me,
Causes me to have anxiety over everything,
It eats my stomach away,
Causes my chest,
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Fingers of a mind playing songs and their melodies in stands of musical beauty while entertaining the life of this mere poet.

Tracing and beginning once again in peaceful ways of serenity as each and every measure begins.
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What is the sweetest orientation and reliance
To calm, serenity and stillness
Get away from all misfortunes and troubles
It falls asleep and eyes are closed quietly
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The Adonis-like triumph,
Of narrowness over peace and multi-culturalism.
The tired mindsets directing and weaving
Miserly annual reassurance.
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He proclaimed today was the day of touch
As each hour or the moment you know it's missed
Sitting on the couch, reassurance is touch
Love is reassurance by touch
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Life is intense at times, taking us down different routes as we
travel daily in moments of living, hoping that we are doing what
is meant to be done, looking within our hearts and souls for reassurance.
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Sometimes I just miss you, the essence and freshness of you
I miss you, everything that makes you you
The calmness and reassurance in your voice
The way my body relaxes when I look into your eyes
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Pain and sadness also need company, comfort,
reassurance and a place to come home to.
Welcome them, listen to what they have to say,
lots of learning and insights from listening
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Your mum used to wrap you up in blankets to protect you from the cold actions taking place downstairs.
Sharp shivers would flood you when you heard your mums hysterical scream.
You would run as fast as you can to save her but it was you who needed to be saved.
When would they come to help you?
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