Life Is A One Time Offer
Life is a one time offer
Use it well to your advantage
Be an example to do good to others
In doing business, act with fairness
Extend help in times of calamity
Never become rich in the usury of others
Give love with a compassionate heart
Help those who cannot help themselves
Never be enamored of things temporal
Seek things which leads you to
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Categories:
at one time, happiness, inspirational, life, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
One-Time Visit
Written By: D. Collins 6/18/24
We get a one-time visit through ups and downs of life.
Some of them are good, and some cut like a knife.
But we still go through it, and somehow outlive it.
Jotting down good notes during our one-time visit.
We get one journey, regardless of what you've heard.
Anyone who's come back, I wouldn't
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Categories:
at one time, life,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
One Time In Nursery School
One time when I was in nursey school, Miss Shanahan had everyone sit in a circle and one-by-one say what we wanted to be when we grow up.
It was what you’d expect…
Doctor
Firefighter
Astro naught
Truck driver
Race car driver
Veterinarian
Police officer
Movie star
Baseball player
Actress
Princess
Detective
Engineer…and the like
Then it was my turn:
“What do you want to be when you grow up Bobby?”
I
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Categories:
at one time, child, funny, god,
Form: Free verse
One Time
I turned the clock of time to look deeper into the divine; I turned the clock of time to see what is mine. The wheels keep spinning and the machine keeps rolling and I behold an oracle rising up from the sea and it is entering the galaxy guided by a strange satellite with millions
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Categories:
at one time, adventure, beautiful, business, community,
Form: Narrative
My Promise To My Soldier
promise to be there for you always?
Whenever you need a helping hand
?I promise to think about you daily
?Wherever you are in the world
?I promise to never let you down
?No matter what we go through
?I promise to keep you in my prayers
?So that God may keep you safe
?I promise to be here when you return
?I will
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Categories:
at one time, beauty, devotion, emotions, for
Form: Free verse
Our One Time Rosy
She arrived at 3pm on the dot
coming anywhere other than Greater Manchester
her northern accent was hard to decipher
She could recognise a meter oak
but had no time for Robinas
She enquired why guys were into figures
after i mentioned my SL120 record player
She was fiercely Red/ Green
believing in mandated proportional representation
She had a German Granny
and could understand, but
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Categories:
at one time, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
One Time Offer
The second someone says ONE TIME OFFER
You know there is something fishy about it
Or that one time is a fabrication
Run from this as fast as you can
I have learned this over and over
The hard way
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Categories:
at one time, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
One-Time Travelers
My heart beats
harder at the thought
of farewell
We are here
just to meet and part in life~
merely sojourners!
When I lie
dead in my coffin
pale and white
motionless,
you all will send me away
with a farewell kiss.
All I wish,
as you bid adieu
is to keep
me fondly
in your kind thoughts now and then
after laid to rest!
Placed Second
Feb.18.2022
Give me A Shadorma Poetry
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Categories:
at one time, angst, death,
Form: Shadorma
I Fell In Love With Five At One Time
Someone perusing all the lines I penned
before this century would surely say
that I held sacred five iambic feet,
that quatrains and rhymed couplets were my stay!
It seemed my mind was programmed to create
four lines per stanza, rhymed a-b-c-b.
I saw that others wrote in varied styles
and over time attempted to break free.
I asked myself then, “Must you
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Categories:
at one time, poetry,
Form: Verse
Except That One Time
Sheila almost always lands on her feet
Except that one awful time
Her final day on earth
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Categories:
at one time, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Kimo
A One Time Only Experience
Why do we wake up smiling, I know, it's love
Each day is to be treasured coz each day's a plus
Love is the answer
It's a life's enhancer
To enjoy the one-time-only experience that lies before us
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Categories:
at one time, life,
Form: Limerick
The One Time
in the cage of shadows
by the birches cast
your red raincoat
wetly shines
Papers and clouds of dreams are stuck to the
benches and the iron railings
awasy in the fading sky,
I look at you
the way a child
sees the circus
for
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Categories:
at one time, analogy, romantic love,
Form: Blank verse
One Time Forever
The night retreats in silence,
as daylight rules the fray
Darkness reigns the past goodbye
this moment not a dream
The present all we’re given
the future lies astray
Repeating truth inside itself
—one time forever means
(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2018)
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Categories:
at one time, truth,
Form: Rhyme
One Time Above a Little Shop
One time above a little shop,
An old greengrocer climbed on top,
Despite himself he could not stop,
The world had changed forever.
The fruit of that old grocers loins,
Became obsessed with notes and coins,
She knew the club she had to join,
For she was very clever.
Yet not as clever as the man,
From council flat in Birmingham,
Bought her vision and
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Categories:
at one time, care, political, sad,
Form: Rhyme
One Time At the Beach
I went to a nude beach one time
Where tanning was filling their needs
Ronald MacDonald in his prime
Showed his buns of sesame seeds
That's a crazy way to see a clown
But that wasn't the show stopper
Heads turned around and jaws fell down
When burger King showed his whopper!
The Dairy Queen's milk containers
Really caused most of the uproar
They looked
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Categories:
at one time, beach, fantasy, fun,
Form: Rhyme
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