New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
New Classic Poems – Contemporary Verse That Rhymes
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<strong>New</strong> <strong>Classic</strong> <strong>Poems</strong><br />
The Dark Side<br />
Ripples<br />
Opal Michelle Norris<br />
A tear for the sick<br />
A tear for the dying<br />
A tear for the orphans,<br />
homeless and crying.<br />
A tear for the hungry<br />
A tear for world peace<br />
A tear for the lost,<br />
alone, or diseased.<br />
A tear for the helpless,<br />
maimed in the street<br />
A tear for the children,<br />
We may never meet.<br />
A tear for the loved one,<br />
we may never find<br />
A tear for the chair-bound,<br />
mute, deaf, and blind.<br />
A tear for hatred,<br />
that brought this world sorrow,<br />
A tear for those,<br />
who are gone with tomorrow.<br />
Gray Streaks of Dawn<br />
Gene Dixon<br />
A breath before gray streaks of dawn<br />
Begin announcing night has gone<br />
And pastel colors tint the sky,<br />
The time is right for such as I<br />
To stand upon the wave-washed stones<br />
And contemplate sea captive bones.<br />
Those who sleep beneath the swells,<br />
Those who heard the final bells<br />
<strong>That</strong> tolled as ships so quickly slipped<br />
Down to the depths as spirits ripped<br />
Away their mortal coil, then drawn<br />
Into the sky, gray streaks of dawn.<br />
They seek me out each silent morn<br />
To tell me of the life they've worn.<br />
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