I was amazed yet again at the reception this poem got entering as Number ONE in Top one hundred best new poems .
NOW IT COMES IN AS NUMBER 37 IN TOP ONE HUNDRED BEST ALL TIME AT MY POETRY SITE
I have been, PRESENTING MY POEMS THERE FOR OVER 4 YEARS, NEVER EVER MADE A PLACEMENT IN THE TOP OF THE TOP LISTS THERE
(TOP ONE HUNDRED BEST ALL TIME).
ADDITIONALLY, IT HAS BEEN CHOSEN FOR PRESENTATION IN APRIL AT, whispers.com


Top 100 Poems of All Time

Top 100 poems of all-time. These popular poems are the 100 all-time best poems written by international web poets and chosen by PoetrySoup members. See also Best New Poems (Past Month) and Top 100 Famous Poets - All Time.

Rank PoemTitle Poet
1 Cinder Girl Andrea Dietrich
2 Indian Ink Poet Destroyer A

3 Violin Elaine George
4 The Sowing Debbie Guzzi
5 Where The Sycamore Grew Carrie Richards
6 Don't Come Ruben O.
7 Love Passing By elizabeth wesley
8 A Long Loud Sigh Maurice Yvonne
9 REFLECTION SKAT A
10 Disposable Wisdom Carolyn Devonshire
11 The Poet Who Never Was Paul Callus
12 Broken Wings Silent One
13 Wind From The Sea David Meade
14 Broken People Richard Lamoureux
15 SWITCH magazine Chris D. Aechtner
16 Petal Keith Bickerstaffe
17 One Brief Moment john fleming
18 Forgotten Heroes of the Somme Howard Bull
19 WHEN I STOP AND PRAY William Robinson
20 To Be With You - Justin Bordner
21 Hard Times Jim Fish
22 H-E-A-R-T of L-O-V-E Pace INK-U-SCRIPT
23 Uncharted Waters Rhonda Johnson-Saunders
24 Beyond Forever Casarah Nance
25 AT THE FOOTBRIDGE - LIMERICK COLLABORATION JAN ALLISON
26 A Near Death Experience of A Sweetheart Linda-Marie SweetHeart
27 Like Zephyr Breeze Charmaine Chircop
28 Within Reason- Maurice Yvonne and Seren Roberts Seren Roberts
29 The End Gary Bateman
30 Does your heart share this moon tonight Chris Green
31 Best Friend Defined Dana Smith
32 The Poets of Gloop Rebecca Teagan
33 POETS Daniel Turner
34 Island Spirit Connie Marcum Wong
35 Eternal Life And The Total Self Sandra Haight

36 The Maltese Moon Eileen Manassian
37 In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope Robert Lindley
38 Where The White Rose Blooms Kelly Deschler
39 Leaf Tim Smith
40 - Peace, Love, and Gods Greatest Gift - Sunshine Smile
41 ONLY EVER WITH YOU Olive Eloisa Guillermo - Fraser
42 The Old Painter James Marshall Goff
43 NATURES WONDERFUL GARDEN Teppo Gren
44 The Park Bench arthur vaso
45 Follow Me Mark Massey
46 BIRTH daver austin
47 Her Masterpiece Is Her Story Madison Marie
48 This scar of mine Bella Cardenas
49 Ancient Warrior Brenda Meier-Hans
50 Half Of A Heart Sara Kendrick
51 WORLD DAY AGAINST RACISM Demetrios Trifiatis
52 The Angel Inside Roy Jerden
53 As the Sun Rises FJ Thomas
54 The Stone Terry O'Leary
55 Grandpa Bob Quigley
56 her silent seams kabuteng P.iNk k.
57 The sacred art of dying joanna smith
58 Recording/Re-playing/Recording/Re-playing Kristin Reynolds
59 Do Not Grieve Your Muse KP Nunez
60 Without Lament Frederic Parker
61 POETRY FOR POETS: i own this- edition scott thirtyseven
62 Rape Charlotte Jade Puddifoot
63 Moonstruck Maiden Lin Lane
64 Pledge Of Eternal Love Nicola Byrne
65 Humanity Vince Suzadail Jr.
66 The one known as Destroyer Michael Byte
67 The Devil's Game The Seeker
68 View It From Afar Emile Pinet
69 She read me Dr Seuss Drake Eszes
70 EDUCATED Cyndi MacMillan
71 The Trail of a Raindrop kash poet
72 The Greatest Poet Ever RALPH TAYLOR
73 I am willing,, a miracle Joe Maverick
74 The moon pours white wine Jeff Green
75 Cocaine Is Her Name Lucilla Carrillo
76 A Poet's Cry Barbara Gorelick
77 AS FATHER IS TO HIS DAUGHTER nette onclaud
78 The Spirit Of Poetry Soup Mystic Rose
79 There is still beauty Agnes Krampe

80 Autumn's Season Phyllis Babcock
81 A Ripple In Time Donna Jones
82 The Universe of You John Wilowski
83 Northern Slaves Mustapha Mohammed
84 Shine Greta Robinson
85 Illusory Disguise Anne Currin
86 A Mathematical Uncertainty Tammy Armstrong
87 Dear Lucifer Laura Breidenthal
88 Spring Bud Ernesto P. Santiago
89 When Yesterday Was Today Edmund Siejka
90 THE OLD OAK TREE harry horsman
91 Always Together HGarvey Daniel Esquire
92 Lonely Leaf in the Water James Fraser
93 The Other Side of Winter Cona Adams
94 Kiss the Rain Isaiah Zerbst
95 This Song is for my Mother Catman Cohen
96 You Took My Place Kim Merryman
97 ALWAYS MOTHERS DAY Sean Kelly
98 My Butterfly Cupids Arrow
99 and that comes from within Broken Wings
100 Day of Reckoning Raul Moreno

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In A Sad Blindness, One May Yet Find Hope
(The Solemn Prayer)

Raining splashing, fierce winds blowing and huge trees sway
I pray not for all this, on some other black day
With dark blue shadows plotting my early demise
I seek deep wisdom from sages worldly and wise
Not just some clever words to soothe this shattered heart
Instead sweet hope, light in words, to this life restart
With power to waken these world-blinded closed eyes
Stop salty tear drops falling from splintered skies.

On this day, life should see past these looming black-storms
Find solace in love, hope and my loving wife's arms
Yet that stone wall, yields to nothing but great power
Far more than this broken soul can muster this hour
When thus lost, can one ever find again that Light
Healer of dagger stabbed wounds, found on a dark night
I pray, gift wisdom to walk that one true-lit path
Release this sad soul from, this evil, wicked wrath.

Raining splashing, fierce winds blowing and huge trees sway
I pray not for all this, on some other black day
With dark blue shadows plotting my early demise
I seek deep wisdom from sages worldly and wise
Not just some clever words to soothe this shattered heart
Instead sweet hope, light in words, to this life restart
With power to waken these world-blinded closed eyes
Stop salty tear drops falling from splintered skies.

Robert J. Lindley, 2-07-2017

Syllables Per Line:
12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 0 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 0 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
Total # Syllables: 288
Total # Words: 225

Note- I decided to write this poem, this morn. About half had already been composed in my head yesterday afternoon and I finally sat down now to put pen to paper.
Believe me, in that it was not an easy task to finish this and be satisfied with the results.
Maybe I am just tired and stopped because of that.
I don't know. Maybe on another day, I could have and would have thought this lacking and rewritten it..
But today, I have only enough to say, this is as it is(and thus it may stay), hope you may find it agreeable and not fault me too much .......

Copyright © Robert Lindley | Year Posted 2017