Birthday Self Poems

I value human life and love
I value the beauty it brings
The birth craze exceptional to me
I like the blooming like a flower
Not the fading and...

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This year 2024 is an opportunity to reflect on the previous year past and set new goals for the next 12 months ahead. We must...

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My suit of self-loathing no longer fits
The mirror of compassion tells me so
Years of bad-intentions held back growth 
After a time, the length of my...

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I, too, dislike poems.
I’ve tried runes (and rampikes)
but that’s affected
rather than merely effete.
So I call them
figments.
When people query
What do you write?
at a barbecue or birthday...

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One hundred pushups every morning,
followed by breaking my fast with some healthy nutrition.
My outdoor activities involve miles of walking.
My indoor activities are pretty much the...

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Getting Old

I used to look so young and slim
I could wear anything I chose
now I buy from tent shops
it's the only way to get clothes

I...

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happy birthday

it started in the usual way -
getting up - getting dressed - working all day.
but this evening - this evening was mine.
as i drove...

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Life is all about Transformations...
The one who was yesterday..
Is not the one  today..
The One who is here today..
Is not the one tomorrow..
Every human is...

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It is just August,
days dusty and hellish hot,
but I don’t notice.
A mercurial Virgo, 
I might change my mind....

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This is to me,
This is for me,
For me and I only,
Many turbulence days I have seen,
Many meandering roads I have walked, 
I have been in...

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•24•

Learning. Healing. Growing 
Walking away from relationships that challenge my peace. Revisiting myself in places that I left abandoned. Being softer on my thoughts. Being...

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If time is an eagle
It could be trapped and deplumed
To limit its flight.

If it’s cheetah
It could be fettered to a stock
To determine the scope of...

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So,
she autistically
and powerfully
said,

One me
plus one you
makes two

And we two
minus one me
leaves you one

Which feels like not
quite enough
for ego sufficiency

But one whole lot more
than zero deficiency

Because...

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every year on the day of my birth
you showed what your friendship was worth 
making every effort to swerve and avert 
being present because something...

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