FATHER CHILDREN FAMILIY
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Love really exists
Caring reciprocal love
Father, children, happy family...
Father of the earth, you are beautiful
created in magnificence
graciously gifted by God
to give yourself to you...
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Categories:
attentively, allusion, fathers day, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Peace Holds Trouble At Woman's Subtle Cheek
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Peace holds trouble at woman's subtle cheek:
Pale, inviting and warm enough to kiss
Attentively with regards, seeming freak.
Shielded close to her open lips, eyes seek
Patiently... so moment ...
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Categories:
attentively, 1st grade, addiction, appreciation,
Form: Villanelle
My answer is affirm No to his request
...Just name the day, and I will be there.
This morning, the notification bells woke me up.
With sleep still in my eyes, I reached for my phone.
The tone lingered from that text in my ear:
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Categories:
attentively, adventure, anxiety, devotion, drug,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
if but stone
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* In memory of the great Charles Laughton, who brought charm and tenderness to a monster with his rare form of melancholy genius *
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on the ledge …
of majestic Notre Dame
he wat...
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Categories:
attentively, analogy, heartbreak, history, true
Form: Free verse
Soul-Searching
...Sitting attentively on a rickety park bench
My thoughts as deep as an ocean trench
People scurrying aimlessly with their daily lives
In time they’ll fade too, into the archives
I notice a young...
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Categories:
attentively, deep, heaven, journey, life,
Form: Rhyme
Backward is forward
...Wake
The ever present enemy
Overbearing and oppressively
Shadowing expectantly
As forethought always secondly
Two minds hang suspended be
Interrupting thoughtlessly
Relentless and attentiv...
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Categories:
attentively, conflict, depression, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
-I Will Always Be With You- 1
...“I fell in love with one whom I believe to be my only soulmate; she showed me the world-- she was my world. And my world was taken from me.
Love stories have never appealed to me, yet I have never b...
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Categories:
attentively, abuse, adventure, angst, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Listen attentively when she speaks to you
...Listen attentively when she speaks to you,
Understand the hidden depths of her feelings,
If you’ve made a mistake, apologize sincerely,
And let each word heal her wounded heart.
But if she wishes...
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Categories:
attentively, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Stillness
...sans volition
attentively noticing
the rising and subsiding
of thoughts and sensations
within this body-mind apparatus
void-centric awareness remains still
poised in an equipoise continuum
as...
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Categories:
attentively, silence, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Lone Tree
...The Lone Tree
The autumn day had been muffled up
in thick scarf and rainproof jacket
until darkness, countryside darkness,
clambered gradually over the horizon;
silence, stillness obediently a...
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Categories:
attentively, imagery, nature, tree,
Form: Free verse
A NEW WORLD
...My old lady dropped a needle
From the cloth she was sewing
A fart of zaracatan or tailor's fart buzzed
That, in the silence of the afternoon
Made me flee quickly from the sewing room.
The news f...
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Categories:
attentively, engagement,
Form: Free verse
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR BESTOWING TO US HIS GRACE
...December 2 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Corinthians 15-16
Key Verse – 1Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not ...
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Categories:
attentively, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
The Geranium
...Her soft pink petals are invitingly fresh and bright
Next to many others displayed in colors that delight
She sits and patiently awaits on greenhouse shelves
And prays she is soon chosen, as her h...
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Categories:
attentively, beautiful, flower, spring,
Form: Personification
BEAUTY AND UGLINESS
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Beautiful is not so pretty
for those who only see defects
ugliness is not so horrible
when seen attentively and willingly
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Categories:
attentively, allusion, beauty, care,
Form: Quatrain
Mother's love
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Studying her children attentively,
mothering comes at ease
navigating each day
like a hot knife through soft butter,
strict discipline,
boundaries, nurture
LOVE
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Categories:
attentively, mother,
Form: Free verse
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