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Living to enjoy the little joys. Taking it a step at a time.

  February 2022     19 mins ago

Submitted Poems 29 total

The Cost of a Head

Heads sprawled everywhere...
Small heads, big heads,
Women’s heads, children’s heads,
Forming a pyramid of sorrow.
Eyes barely shut,
Tears of blood streaking down
Ruddy cheeks of infants
Who will never see tomorrow.


 “Off with their...

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Prayer Answered

In this fleeting moment, a prayer finds its way,
Learn to love, learn to live, learn to give each day.
See, it’s not so tough, this journey’s gentle sway.

Embrace grace, inhale favor, and in joy, stay.
Let love’s tender whispers light the...

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Walking Your Path

Until I wore your over sized scrawny shoes…

 Scuttling through harrowing dark tunnels,

 Dodging bullets and bombs,
I never knew where it pinched.


 Until my roof was scalped...
Like a bald vulture in rain, drenched,
Flapping its wet wings,...

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The Moon seeks Attention

Like a spurned lover, the moon turns from the sun,
Casting its opaque shadow over the earth, its adversary.

 Despised for reflecting light, not emitting its own, It is jeered and taunted.
In anger, it traces a path of totality, Weary of the...

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The Power Game

In the game of love, we dance on life’s battlefield,
In the silent spaces where frustrations yield.
He, a lion, exudes dominance and might,
While I, a deer, caught in his gaze, take flight.

His presence, a predator’s stealthy stare,
I feign...

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This is a beautiful poem. "The spring skips it season" just got me!

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Such is life... Thanks for bringing it to our consciousness

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The sadness and loss are quite palpable... Thanks for sharing.

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You have written with such eloquence , this battle you fight. I pray for God's grace to renew and restore your memory. Please don't give up the fight!

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Nice poem. Great you can put your feelings to words. I like that you acknowledged your limitations in meeting a need though it makes you "cry", you still want the best for the other person...

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thank you for seeing the deeper meanings of this poem. So much innocent heads already!!!

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This poem depicts a picture of what can be achieved in unison... Thank you for sharing.

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" This battle has already been won". Gives reassurance

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What an odd enchantment to keep all spirits blessed

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This isn't just noise! You are doing a good work sharing your reality through poetry. Keep writing

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So vivid, it was like watching Nat Geo Wild!!! The elk indeed "danced with fate" and triumphed! Great work. Thanks for sharing...

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Honest. Humane. Truth. "You have to have dark to appreciate light"! Very reverberating....

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This is a lovely poem that speaks to the beauty and wisdom that comes with age. I love how you personified the tree with " wrinkle lines, sometimes very thick but alo fine."

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Thanks. We need to be appreciative of now...

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I particularly like the paradoxes of death and life, lie and truth, pride and humility.....

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