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Ourselves
You know what you achieve by criticizing??????????
Nothing

Its merely fodder for the sad
In order to make themselves feel better

But do you know what can be achieved??????????
When...

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Categories: ourselves, slam,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Look At Ourselves
If we look in the mirror
What do we see
If we look behind us
Is it other than thee

If we do a wrong
Does it make it right
If...

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Categories: ourselves, hope, life, people
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Let Us Transform Ourselves
Let us, my friends,
 
transform our hearts into a bountiful garden 

where 

kindness and love bloom  

so as 

to enable our souls to be...

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Categories: ourselves, god, love, peace,
Form: Free verse




Premium Member We Have Only Ourselves To Blame
We Have Only Ourselves To Blame  


The way we live now seems barely the same,
Enduring one ecological disaster after another.
It’s obvious we have only...

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Categories: ourselves, earth, earth day, fire,
Form: Pantoum
Knowing Ourselves
In this life time 
I met many people
In all walks of life 
Some were funny
And some were boring
However when I changed my focus
I have had...

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Categories: ourselves, life, love,
Form: Free verse
To See Ourselves As Others See Us
To See Ourselves As Others See Us

By Elton Camp

What we’re like we may think we know
Others very well might not agree, though

For in my mirror...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ourselves, funny, may,
Form: Rhyme



Someone Lives, Greater Than Ourselves
Some people say that God does not exist
Because they cannot see his face or hold
His hand. The denial of the atheists,
The Godless ones, should make...

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© Karen Ruff  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ourselves, faith, god, religious, truth,
Form: Sonnet
Ourselves
Ourselves

The world is filled with temptation.
The heart is filled with desires.
The eye’s is filled with it own truth.
The mind is on the breaking point of...

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Categories: ourselves, boyfriend, devotion, husband, love,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member We Americans Cannot Let Ourselves Be Defeated By Racism
We as Policewomen and Policemen cannot let ourselves fail in our duties,because of a racist cop who is in our ranks! We as Teachers cannot...

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Categories: ourselves, 11th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Surviving Ourselves
Surviving Ourselves
       by Odin Roark

Blame game trollops 
Cruise our insides
Willing to plant more guilt
Defying accountability
To take a stand

Conscience-bots
Perform recon
Patrolling...

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© Odin Roark  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ourselves, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Restoring Ourselves
"In restoring the land, I restore myself."
       Franz Dolp

We long ago started bilateral tree balancing information
for mind and land...

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Categories: ourselves, creation, culture, earth, health,
Form: Political Verse
Premium Member Other Than Ourselves
Wayward, frolic into left wings
That which brings me different
Wave of introspection
Putting myself into harm’s way
If I stay where I’m at
I could become nothing
But I desire...

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Categories: ourselves, hope,
Form: Free verse
All of Ourselves
I am the eyes of the poor
Hungry and searching for more
They look on in awe
Of the wonders of beauty that surrounds them
But fails to embrace
I...

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© Cindy Lu  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ourselves, caregiving, life,
Form:
Finding Ourselves
As the days grow shorter and the nights have more length,
We have more time to ponder on God and receive more of His strength.
To pick...

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Categories: ourselves, dedication, devotion, faithgod, god,
Form: Verse
Who Can Save Us From Ourselves?
You foolish boy!
What have you done!
Come son, come!
Cast out yourself, 
‘cause it’s the demon
that’s goin' ruin you.

Child, get that big black bible; 
the King James...

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Categories: ourselves, childhoodgod, heart, god, heart,
Form:

Book: Reflection on the Important Things