Beforehand Poems

Premium MemberIn the mystery of the night, when stars weave their dance on the velvet black sky

...In the mystery of the night, when stars weave their dance on the velvet black sky,
I embrace the echo of love that resonates like a symphony of unfulfilled dreams,
like a sea whispering desires in ...
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Categories: beforehand, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

The Battles Of A Bad Day's Night

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If instinct could alert beforehand;
Reflecting moments as all stand...
The ought process of echoing mind,
For rights to get wrongs tightly bind-
Assign each voice unto confident tears,
Without...
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Categories: beforehand, art, bereavement, crazy, day,
Form: Rhyme


Premium MemberFly Off the Pages

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    Why can’t we learn beforehand
        life lessons we learn afterwards

     Not grounded in experience
        words fly off the pages like birds
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Categories: beforehand, bird, flying, life, words,
Form: Epigram

Dear Depression

...It would be nice, you know if you gave me a reason for your visits
Sometimes you pop in so randomly, like an outbreak of a deadly disease 
I sometimes wonder where you picked up this boldness
This...
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Categories: beforehand, depression, poetry,
Form: Free verse

The wrong facsimile receiving noise in the right rehearsing recital time of genesis room

...The wrong facsimile receiving noise in the right rehearsing 
recital time of genesis room

What is patriotism?
To love your land, to be there for the cause of the land.
What is the core value of...
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Categories: beforehand, art,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberEaster 2025

...Sometimes I ask myself if Jesus could speak to the people of today. What would he say and do? With all the senseless killings and a lunatic running the White House, could he still want to give up his...
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Categories: beforehand, character, deep, faith, feelings,
Form: Blank verse

Change Is A Necessity

...Don't ask why I change
Life is never be the same
I believe things evolve
This year I'm 55, 56 next year
This time I have many gray hairs
Not knowing next months all are white
I see my face has ...
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Categories: beforehand, age, change, life, perspective,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberWinter Warmup

...Winter Warmup

Cold
salad.
Cold! Salad?
Warming up, though
I thought, beforehand,
about warming soup. Soup?
Who needs to sip, now? I don’t!
My salad, topped with yesterday’s
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Categories: beforehand, food,
Form: Etheree

Universal love

...Universal love

How to explain( I wrote "explain" seven times
before I got the spelling right)
my nephew, who lives in Spain but not in Valencia   
where the storm occurred, played golf 
A turb...
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Categories: beforehand, absence, abuse, age,
Form: Free verse

Premium Memberpunked

...We’re on October break, which is a 6-day weekend. For the last two weeks, everyone’s been making plans.
“What do you think of Cancún?” Sunny’d asked me.
“The only people going to Mexico are on the ...
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Categories: beforehand, friend, fun, humor, new
Form: Free verse

What I Wrote on My Gravestone -10-18-22 -part 2-

...Grab a hold of me gently
Don't jab my heart with this cruel knife 
Understand me completely
I'm like a crab, living in its shell all my life

Shelter me in my cell
Hell broke loose in my heaven...
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Categories: beforehand, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme

God the Father is Able

...God answers miraculously, and powerfully!
Suddenly, inexplicably, amazingly
God the Father is able beyond all measure
God gave us the Kingdom of God
Before the foundations of the world!
God is a...
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Categories: beforehand, education, god,
Form: Free verse

The Girl Who Stands Alone

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Out from the darkness
Out from the cold
Her life is hell
A battle to overcome
Victory is accounting the tears she has shed
Walking into crowds of unknown
People sip their wine without recog...
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Categories: beforehand, lonely, solitude, song,
Form: Dramatic Verse

Premium MemberRue Saint-Honore

...It's the weekend (Friday night). Lisa and I are hangin’, music’s playing, and we’re rummaging through my suitcase, for an outfit option, for me, tonight. Call it cliché, but we like going out - and g...
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Categories: beforehand, fashion, friendship, fun, humor,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBilocation

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Mental bilocation is a complex but genuine experience occurring more frequently, than commonly thought. 

First time I experienced it I was twelve and it was summertime...
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Categories: beforehand, appreciation, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse

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