Life

Life is like a chapter in a book

We open and have a look

Each page unfolds a chapter at a time

One opens another closes we find

As we turn one page it grows

New chapters begin to unfold

Until we find a book

Like life we have a look

Each page shiny and new

Like our life as we grew

One page one line

One day every time

Until the book is done

Until life is none

We live one day at a time

Just like we read every line

Copyright © | Year Posted 2006



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Date: 6/26/2014 3:07:00 PM
Like a leaf that turns, a chapters done. As a season end's, a new one's begun. Pages turn one at a time. Poet's learn, and then they rhyme. May your life have many more chapter's Phyllis. Peace. :)
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Date: 6/25/2014 10:39:00 AM
great write Phyllis,summing up life so well. great stuff, have blessed day, Gordon
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Date: 6/22/2014 9:57:00 PM
Nice write Phyllis and so very true! :) Ana
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Date: 2/23/2013 9:33:00 AM
Dear Phyllis, Hope this finds YOU and YOURS Healthy and High in the Spirit.Excellent Verse, yes we do live our lives like a Page in a book. "We live one day at a time" "Just like we read every line" I do anyway Superb Pen LOVE ALWAYS and FOREVER YOUR Eternal Liege...Harry
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Date: 10/17/2010 12:16:00 AM
What about the people that just go right to the last page rather than read the whole book. Those must be the ones that die young. heehee. (or who don't have a life). I'm just playing with ya. But this poem really makes you think about stuff like that. How much we really live our lives or not! I like these kinds of analogy poems.LUv, Andrea
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Date: 8/7/2008 8:18:00 AM
I had to add this one to my favorites
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