Mortals Poems - Poems about Mortals

Pride it is said goes before a fall A fall may not be fatal One good fall could be a blessing in disguise For It could signal a new beginning It could portend a second chance It could also be a learning phase When you skip and fall As mortals sometimes do Take stock of the pitfalls Get right up...

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As Memories dim and fade Past favours are forgotten Ingratitude breeds envy and jealousy And promises of love till death Made under the heat of the moment Fade and are forgotten Emotions take flight under new guise Beautiful memories of years past Dim and diminish as cognitive health wanes For Humans are just mere mortals They have a beginning and a...

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Green, gold, gray, old, from thence they pass away. And from the dawn, the night is cast, What's due to mortals falls at last. ...

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Want, not the need ...

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A thin line separates These two creations divine; One guided by grace The other lost in time. Mortals tread with weary hearts Bound by earthly chains While angels soar on wings Above skies weeping with rain. Both shrouded in mystery Sharing a trace of history; Mortals seek eternity Angels guide them gently. A delicate line divides One follows a sacred plan The...

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Medusa, Stheno and Euryale were threats to each other. Their mother had to caution them to use their snakes wisely. Typical sisters, there was much hissing, spitting and biting. Their sitter had her hands full as their snakes were venomous. Why did the gods give you snakes instead of hair? She lamented. Gaze into my eyes! Medusa said to the...

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We the Mortals As glamorous as it might seem this world actually is hollow inside; Those beautiful smiling faces sure have sadness embed in; There being no absolute measure of happiness and tranquility; Both playing hide and seek sometimes lost, at times found; As those big houses and riches fail to give that content ; Which a poor man feats in collapsible hatchet...

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Mortals By Michelle Morris 31/03/2023 Here we mortals turn to stone By our hardened hearts And callous disregard For each other and our planet Let us embrace our humanity And melt the hardness and tar That holds us down and immobilised That keeps us from freeing our souls Imagine the light that burns deep within It's inside you and ignites your soul For you are starlight and...

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What lesser mortals? What lesser mortals than Rimbaud claim themselves a poet within another self, for there is more than just one self depending on the time and day and nothing is as it seems at first, we are born from abstract firmament to the Infirmament arriving planned and unplanned in the in-between swaddled in skin, a nude shade of blue turning pink...

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Chants of Mortals From the first cry out of the womb like a bay window Life presents a combat zone Though maternal and puny The soul knew it was an eternal race Tick-tack, tick-tack the race began Moments in life unfolds like a lotus Laying hold on the peduncle of hope Each day breeds disquietude From a child, to the springtime of life,...

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"One who meditates of death, has disguised his life as one. One who meditated of death, in order to disguise, knows life." - "Should I meditate of life then?" You probably will be 'living death' (P.s. explanation - A layman who thinks of nothing but death, and has the essence of it to his very depths, has, ofc, known...

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Alas how they suffer poverty seeds disease like a puddle breeds mosquitoes - the sickly buzz is everywhere.. the dirge of the drudge nowadays damn near everyone in refrain rites and rituals -- enough to almost make this heartless hooded old man feel faint - ha! ..a feign of concern with my bony hand to my stony brow.. mundane mortals mundane matters...

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save those tears for the solitude of night alone in your cold little widow’s bed when gates open to memories flowing still shellshocked by the emptiness of his love suddenly gone taking comfort in knowing how it went down all so perfect in every detail of every moment how he slipped into the next life like he was taking off a coat with dignity and...

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The road to heaven is before us It is not difficult to find It is enshrined in the word of God Jesus is the way, the truth and life And so we should not be frightened where we are going to He is with us If we put our trust in Him death becomes a comma and not a period It is...

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"Lord what fools these mortals be!" Wm. Shakespeare I hesitate to be on the same page, with I the greatest poet of the ages, but I believe his words to be true now, fools gathering when it is not allowed. The fools don't care who they put in danger, be it a love one or perfect stranger, they have no...

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