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The Invitation
I do it often,
drag a perfect morning
in through the front door of myself
and make it a reluctant guest,
replace its colors with my own
dour palette, drown out
its soft voice with noise.
It has become a habit, trying
to...
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Categories:
anxiety, morning, self,
Form: Free verse
The ChillThis chill caused by
the pills of rejecting
our life's will, unknowingly
ignoring the purpose for which
we decided to till is what
will kill any skill which
we may have long drilled into the heads. ...
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Categories:
growth, self, success,
Form: Free verse
If Only You Knew
If only you knew the struggles I have had,
many were very sad.
My kind and loving dad,
knew I was never bad.
I should have kept a notepad,
about the people that made me mad.
If only I had not...
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Categories:
self, dad, daughter, love, people,
Form: Rhyme
Passage Of TimePassage of Time
Time, that unforgiving mistress, whisks us away like autumn leaves on a gusty day, scattering our lives like petals in the wind. She wraps her bony fingers around our hearts, squeezing tight until...
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Categories:
self, beautiful, betrayal, day, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Wake up weary hermitWe are the power,
that enlivens body-mind,
yet strangely we prefer trance.
In this lucid dream,
as both subject and object,
all that is, is light of Self....
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Categories:
dream, i am, self,
Form: Sedoka
Paradox vastnessParadoxes
Are stories with
Apparent
Responses of
Rejection..or of
An immediate
Resonance
Burning borders
And a vastness
Which cannot be
Explained...
...
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Categories:
beauty, music, self, words,
Form: Light Verse
Thanks For The WindThe wind changed my life
Accident happen in sea
I won that strife....
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Categories:
character, courage, engagement, self,
Form: Haiku
I am only curiousI sit beside myself and think,
And try to evaluate my life;
Yes, my life that is blotted with ink
My life of which evaluation would cause strife.
A strife between the living and the dead,
Between our world and...
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Categories:
hope, humanity, introspection, self,
Form: Quatrain
Fake FriendsI guess I wanted a friend so bad ,
you'll probably think I'm mad,
but i did not check and see if they were gonna be fake
i guess i thought there would be no pain caused
as...
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Categories:
best friend, betrayal, self,
Form: Free verse
Time To HealYou're my inner child.
I'm your outer shell.
There's something that you need to know
And it will serve you well...
Your younger life experiences
Were unkind to you.
As ashamed as I am, I must admit
That I've been unkind...
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Categories:
self,
Form: Rhyme
In Praise of Yelling
Sometimes
it's good to give
yourself up in an heartfelt yell -
to find a place out of earshot
of others, a beach will do,
or better, a shoreline with rocks
and crashing waves,
or out bush where there is
nothing...
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Categories:
child, earth, peace, self,
Form: Free verse
Positive EnergyBelieve in yourself
Know that there's something who's more
Greater inside you....
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Categories:
faith, perspective, power, self,
Form: Haiku
An Old Hand Reveals ItselfI see no sign of forced entry...
just copper suns and cornflower blue,
have you been here all this time?
I don't remember inviting you,
and now all my voices are a chatter,
with threats I cannot construe.
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Categories:
self, confidence, deep, extended metaphor,
Form: Lyric
Why Do I Paint Myself The Villian?Why do I paint myself the villain?
Why do I see everyone else as a saint?
What makes them so great?
I know I make mistakes,
But don't they?
Why do I paint myself the villain?
Why do we think others...
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Categories:
self, deep, forgiveness, identity, introspection,
Form: Villanelle
God in my life
“How desperately I need God in my life.”
Inner Self replies… ‘Uhhh, need?
Perhaps you truly mean...
I need to find the God already in my life.’
“Ahhh... better.”...
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Categories:
self, adventure, god, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Self Poems
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acceptance, confidence, dear, determination, esteem, future, harm, hate, identity, inner, love, note to, personality, reflection, sacrifice, worth,
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