Best At Times Poems

Are you one of life's many players?
Wearing a mask so others can't see;
Hiding feelings, won't let them show,
Absent from what reality might be.

Do you go through life supposing?
That you're the master of your life's all;
But when things in life are amiss,
It's then upon God you...

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"At Times I Wonder"
By M. Taha Effendi

(Nazam)

At times I wonder what life would have been worth
Spent cloaked in soft shades of your sable tresses
If ill-fated darkness that shrouds my  wrecked hearth
Was slayed by vigorous radiance of your eyes' recesses

Oblivious to earthly callings would it...

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easy comes and goes
never making a profit
no breaking even...

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I know a very special young girlie
Who's caught me by the short curlys
Known her for years
Much joy and some tears
I'll never stop loving her surely

Promised that I'd love her forever
From the first day knew that I'd never
Betray her not a chance
It's a lifetime dance
This love's...

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I'm on a roll, not a toilet paper roll
Methinks most would agree, if you took a poll
Mostly good limericks
At times just gibberish
Over the top silly, certainly not droll...

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Life at times just doesn’t seem fair,

When a loved one embraced just hours ago, suddenly is no longer there.

If only we could make life at times in retrospect, just stand still,

Then captured moments of joy, wouldn’t need decades for a broken heart to heal.

Life at...

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I wish to God that I could be
All things a Dad is meant to be
The Heart and Soul inside of me
Cries out in pain and misery
 
Your future happiness I vowed
I'd guide you through the endless crowd
How much I dreamed I'd make you proud
At night...

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At times the name of Christ is disdained
 Yet the power of His sinless life has remained
 He taught us all a loving way to live
 And how important it is to forgive

His gospel's lived on for thousands of years
 It's for you He sheds...

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At times I tell the most in mind
Thoughts escaping elapsing day to night
At times I close my eyes as blind
Absorbing sound vibrations passing by passing by

At times I spend inflicted intelligently gifted
Whirlwind words spin consciousness lifted collapse
At times I begin minds mend acknowledging indifference
Earthquake emotions...

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At times I just sit and I WONDER,
 	what is my MISSION?
What is my ultimate goal or in other WORDS,
what is my life’s VISIONS?
At times I sit and THINK,
what will people actually say about my NAME,
when I no longer BLINK?

What stories will be told about...

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at times

            grey clouds d
                             ...

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Recurrently I need
sail in my dreams
than  living days and nights....
I'd rather talk to stars
than dialoguing with human voices...
Live less my body
and much further my soul...
be less real
and be instead mysterious......

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At times we are tired of living
tired of trying
but not ready to die
At times we are ready to give up
so much weighs us down
but not ready to walk away
 With the stress
at times we are ready to break
but still refusing to fold....

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Try my darndest to brighten each day
At times successful, at times lay an egg
Two times outta three
No bad 'tween you and me
If I don't improve, you can dock my pay...

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do come
I will lead you
to my favourite place
a wondrous and clandestine glade 
where the rarest flowers show their splendor
balmy herbs spread their bracing scent
and mythical creatures 
crop up at times
do come




July 30, 2022 
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