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WILLOW TREE

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Willow Tree Canva AI Image Willow Tree I am so tired of the games that you’ve played. The price that is needed is too high to be paid. I thought this love was something I wouldn’t trade. Like your favorite song, that is often overplayed. But it isn’t love when you’re left feeling afraid. There sit our rings, that we had engraved. No matter what, some things can’t be saved. But is it even love when you’re feeling enslaved? Left with a bitterness when it’s the sweetness I craved. So I will start a new journey. Take the roads left unpaved. No longer feel trapped. I am finally free. Once in a nightmare. Now your face I don’t see. Light shines through the branches of my Willow tree. I am safe and secure. I embrace the new me. My life has found balance and I am truly happy. Original Poetry Written By Eryn Dunbar Copyright (c) 3.2.2025 

WITH WINGS I TAKE FLIGHT

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  Wings Canva AI Image With Wings I Take Flight You clip my wings when I’m ready to soar. Why do you always need me to give more? I think you’re a mistake that I’ve made before. For my own sake, I should walk out that door. You hold me back when all I want is to race. This isn’t a love that I want to embrace. You’re like the demons that I no longer face. I think bowing out will be my saving grace. My light is now fading. It’s starting to die. I’m praying for God to answer my cry. The decision is made. Now I’m going to try. Look at me go.. I am soaring so high! Wings no longer clipped. Away I now fly! Original Poetry Written By Eryn Dunbar Copyright (c) 3.2.2025

THE FOUNDATION OF LOVE

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  Canva AI Image The Foundation Of Love THE FOUNDATION OF LOVE I think passion is like beauty. It will also fade. So marrying your best friend is the best plan made. I know friendship is the key to this foundation. I’ve only recently come to this realization. So I think when I am ready that’s what I’m gonna look for. Something that I’ve definitely never had before. And maybe all my past relationships have been a lie. The reason why I was always with the wrong guy. How many of you already knew this? Have been living this whole time in wedded bliss? Is it some secret, private conversation? I’d be shouting it to the entire nation! Because I want all of us to be happy and in love. Because I think this is what true dreams are made of. A deep love that is shared with your best friend. This is what I want. And now I’m ready to begin. Original Poetry Written By Eryn Dunbar Copyright (c) 2.22.2025

BENEATH THE WILLOW TREE

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A Willow Tree Canva AI Image Beneath The Willow Tree   I saw you today, beneath the willow tree.  I’m glad you’re at peace and finally free. From the pain that ravaged your entire body. It held you so tight and so cruelly. Watching you suffer while I stood helplessly. I’ll be honest with you. I miss your sweet face. And being held in the warmth of your gentle embrace. You are someone I could never replace. That’s why I come so often to your resting place.  Just to be near you. Wrapped in your grace. And so I update you about what’s going on. I swear I hear your laughter even though you’re gone.  I think you’d like my new friend. His name is John. He used my poetry in his latest song. And he makes me feel like the most beautiful swan. He truly makes me shine. Such an alluring glow. Don’t worry yourself. We are taking things slow.  Our lives woven together, while the both of us sew. Now it’s getting dark, so I’d better go. But I’ll be back tomorrow, when the sun’s...

THE TWENTIES I THOUGHT I MISSED

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Canva AI Image THE TWENTIES I THOUGHT I MISSED (Describe a phase in life that was difficult to say goodbye to - Poetry Prompt) Is it true? Are they over? Is it time to say goodbye? Thirties knocking on my door and I think I’m gonna cry. My twenties were the best years of my whole adult life. Yeah fine. I didn’t marry and become somebody’s wife. I’ll do that next year. I’ll have more than enough time. Right now there is a mountain that I must try my best to climb. But I miss my twenties. Although the memories are blurred. From all that time spent drinking at loud bars where you’re not heard. So what?! Thought I’d be married with kids by twenty five. Instead I partied most night's and felt ‘oh so’ alive! Wait. Now that I’m thinking. My life had yet begun. I started living my best life the year I had my son. Thirty six. I’d go back and be with baby Jax one more time. Hold him in my arms. Read him one more nursery rhyme. Smell his powder fresh hair. Marvel...

THE SEED

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The Seed Canva AI Image The Seed My soul is tied down And it wants to be freed Away from the grove Where you planted the seed Vines wrapped around me Pulling me into the ground Screaming and yelling But no help to be found Coiled so tightly I barely can move Your lies tell a story I can’t seem to disprove The trees, grown so tall That you’re trapped in the shade No light shining down On one single grass blade Can’t see ahead The path has been blurred The darkness so heavy No sound can be heard Surrounded by evil Your black trickery Consumed by your hate That’s directed at me But I will break free Of these chains that do bind Again I’ll be whole My body, soul and my mind Finally running Into light’s warm embrace Protected by God And a heavenly grace Not under your spell I broke free of the trap I’m no longer held Within your evil grasp And I healed the grove Where you planted your seed It’s now covered in light With its innocence freed Original Poetry Written By Eryn Dunbar Copyright (c...

IF EVER I'M AFRAID

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  IF EVER I’M AFRAID  AN ODE TO A MOM (OR A DAD) I will follow on this path On the stones already laid I know you’ll hold my hand If ever I’m afraid In my eyes you’re a hero The best mom (dad) ever made I bask in the glow Of your light that won’t fade You’ve said it so often Like a song that’s replayed That I am your jewel The most beautiful Jade So safe and secure In your arms where I’ve stayed Sleeping so soundly While awake you have prayed No matter how often Your nerves might get frayed The life you’ve created I’m not willing to trade Where I might struggle You always give aid When the sun is too bright You offer your shade So yes I’ll walk this path On the stones that you have laid Because I know you’ll always hold my hand If ever I’m afraid Original Poetry Written By Eryn Dunbar Copyright (c) 2.27.2025

Long Island Sound - A Poem By Justice James

  When the sound is calm my heart knows peace for there is no storm to worry about not tonight    A smile to the face is sweetly worn as the music of grace as shifting tides prevail   Anchor away we cannot sail without the wind now we rest after mending tattered things   While in this cove Merry sounds reach our ears   The waters calm a woman stands upon the sands where the water meets   Does she mourn shedding tears or does she wait for whom she cares Poetry Written By: Justice James Poetry Published By: Eryn Dunbar

AURA

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  Canva AI Image WHITE AURA AURA Your light shines so bright My own personal beacon You give me strength Whenever I weaken But you aren’t just mine There’s others you heal They seek you out Because your power they feel You need to be careful So you won't get drained They’ve done it before Till no power remained Like vampires in the night They take more than they give And you just keep giving Because that’s how you live Never before have I seen such a light Glowing and vibrant, a beautiful white An aura so pure and a gift that is strong If you didn’t help others  you’d think that was wrong If I had the power, I’d give you some of mine I don’t want you to dim. I only want you to shine Original Poetry Written By Eryn Dunbar Copyright (c) 2.23.2025

A QUESTION OF DESTINY

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  A Question Of Destiny Canva AI Image A Question Of Destiny Sometimes I feel like my moves are preset. Like, am I doing something that I'll live to  regret? Simon Says, now move to your right. This has caused me many a sleepless night. I don’t know. And maybe I’m wrong. It’s like singing a verse, b efore they've played your song. Maybe not a good example in this particular instance. But I wonder.. is it fate, or just coincidence? Am I making my own choices, or are they already made? Building my own dreams, or are stones already laid? I’m at my wits end. I’m at a loss. Am I the one in charge, or do I have a boss? These are my thoughts that at night take ahold. With no answers forthcoming, I must watch it unfold. Is it predestined or do I have a choice? Am I speaking the words but not in my voice? So if you have an explanation please share it with me. Just get me out of my head.. with my crazy thoughts on destiny! Original Poetry Written By Eryn Dunbar Copyright (c) 2.23.2025