Paths that partIn the garden where laughter used to grow,
We shared our secrets, watching time flow.
Now paths diverge, and stories unwind,
Friends who were once close, now hard to find.
Seasons change, and so do we,
Chasing dreams, setting spirits free.
Yet in the quiet moments, echoes remain,
Of inside jokes and joy, mingled with pain.
Pictures fade, but memories hold tight,
Late...
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Categories:
appreciation, best friend, childhood,
Form: Free verse
Categories:
appreciation, beautiful, bridal shower,
Form: Free verse
Best FriendBe your own best friend,
Your together till the end,
Let those wounds mend,
Send yourself some love,
It's already been through enough,
It's never given up,
And emptied its cup,
So you could grow up.
Hold a better view of you,
There's really two,
Look deeper, you'll know what to do,
Your...
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Categories:
appreciation, art, best friend,
Form: Rhyme
We Are Enough
We are enough if we stop trying to be
something we are not
We are enough if we accept ourselves
just as we are...
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Categories:
appreciation,
Form: List
What Breaks My Heart
I love you – even when the smile is shy
I love you, even when I can’t say why
I love you, when my tears just won’t dry
I love you, with a love I can’t deny
What breaks my heart completely, dear
Are the tears that sting with dark fear
The mourning that I so dread to hear
The feelings...
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Categories:
appreciation, god, heart, hope,
Form: Rhyme
After a Writing Workshop About the Body
This is not my body.
Not the one that used to tell everything
to anyone—
I mean everything,
like I thought it might get me somewhere
closer to known.
I sat in a circle today,
some kind of writing thing—
you know the type.
Lots of deep breathing
and soft lighting.
Someone cried reading what they wrote
in the first eight minutes
and I—
well, I flinched.
Not because it...
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Categories:
age, appreciation, women, writing,
Form: Free verse
Freewriting
the thought of you is consuming me
even as I consume content
on how to communicate with you.
I won’t turn on the camera—
the perception of being perceived
is too much.
I’m avoiding you like I do everything:
dressed like a street urchin
for plausible deniability,
streaming lofi beats I had to Google.
and if you’re going to know me,
I should admit I started...
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Categories:
allusion, appreciation, writing,
Form: Free verse
CELESTIALLY GRACED LOVECELESTIALLY GRACED LOVE
The day has its sun,
And the night, its moon:-
I am blessed to have you,
Each bright day and night:-
Your presence is as the cosmic beauty of God:
Reflecting the shiny, glorious glow of His light:-
As you are my ever glowing sun of my day,
May I ever be your glowing moon of your night:-...
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Categories:
analogy, appreciation, beauty, extended
Form: Couplet
IN THE AWARENESS OF WOMEN OF THE WORLDIN AWARENESS OF THE WOMEN OF THE WORLD
God’s human-like doves,
Are colored and colorless:
His gift of women:
With Mary, mother of Jesus,
God sanctified womanhood,
Glorifying all women with amazing
Grace and divine supreme love;
Thus, as with our people’s...
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Categories:
allegory, appreciation, devotion, introspection,
Form: Prose
I Couldn't LiveI couldn’t live without A/C
Though people all through history
Made do with fans or else before,
They sweated through the clothes they wore.
I’d hate to live without my phone;
Attached to it I’ve somehow grown
Though I’ve survived, let’s not forget,
When it was not invented yet.
I wouldn’t want to live without
The wheels that take me all about,
For without car...
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Categories:
appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Always HimHow I love him, let me tell,
A simple story, known so well,
Just in my heart, a constant light,
He makes my world feel warm and bright.
He cares for me, in gentle ways,
Through sunny days and stormy grays,
A steady hand, a loving gaze,
He lifts me up through life's long maze.
Could I ask for more, or better be?
No,...
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Categories:
10th grade, appreciation, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Every decision matters
Life is short but long enough
to make plans and make
some dreams come true
Life is kind and generous
it offers time for second chances
and even a string of redos
Life is short but in the end
you'll be liable for what you've done
but equally for what you didn't do
Use your time wisely ~...
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Categories:
appreciation, judgement, life, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
Misty No More
beckoning heart for rest
haven of peace welcomes
soothing gloom midst blest bliss
quieting weary soul
tired of woes, drenched with tears
for vibrant hope that reigns
July 8, 2025
Sponsor: Nette Onclaud
Contest Name: SOME KIND OF MISTY...
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Categories:
appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Free verse
What you don't know won't hurt you~that she saw her mother as a child lying strewn on the kitchen floor black and blue~
~that the taste does not matter only that it should be sufficient~
that what you don't know won’t hurt you
~that she’d let those who don’t know her home feel the fight stuffed in her school blouse~
~that she has...
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Categories:
abuse, appreciation, class, dedication,
Form: Free verse
His KissesHis kisses were forbidden—intense and forceful, surpassing his first and second. But his third smooch was as cold as a Bollywood kiss.
...
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Categories:
age, america, angel, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Specific Types of Appreciation Poems
Definition | What is Appreciation in Poetry?
Poems Related to Appreciation
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