Best Borrowed Poems

"Marionette of Flesh in a Borrowed Dress"
- Daniel Henry Rodgers

The hourglass, 
a skeletal jester 
mocks in the tomb's chill
Each falling grain an emaciated sigh, 
"Soon you'll cease to be."
The mirror's cold reflection, 
a Gorgon's ghastly guise
A marionette of flesh with vacant... 
hollow...
colorless eyes.

The worms, like...

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Death usually brings her own rewards.
More hugging and clutching, 
More appreciation,
More reverence,
More laughter.
More respect.
In some ways,
It is the best
Time to love,
A reminder
That we
Are all
Borrowed,
But we
Have to
Be returned....

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I live on an island in the Pacific region
The largest body of water is the OCEAN
Like, can we be more Pacific?

I think Christopher Columbus got lost
Because the directions were not pacific 

Oh, excuse me, the Pacific Ocean
Where you will find the small islands (micronesia) ...

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On the wheels of our dreams
The hammer of Thor
Shall crack this fountain sky
What words shall find
The patient clock unwinds
We live on borrowed time...

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As the spring sun rises
Revealing wispy clouds
Fog that's settled in hollows
Roosters crow, doves' coo proud

With Easter approaching 
Thoughts of thousands years
Ago bubble up in 
Memory, some tears flow

A triumphant entry
Upon a donkey new
He had never ridden one
The donkey unridden too

Was it a day like this...

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~ Borrowed  Blessings ~
( The  Chain Style )


When  all our dreams seem somehow to go wrong
Wrong can motivate us  all the time to be just strong
Strong when need to be in everything and everyday to cope
Cope, God will help us with...

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Lucky none have seen him slip and fall.
Mustn't know his strain to stand at all.
Many wondrous stories he could share.
Pass them by as if he wasn't there.

Try to help, a plate slips from his hand.
Whispers seem a guarded reprimand.
With, "I'm sorry", asks them for a...

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Got the news today, from the doctor, my love
It's much worse than you or I could ever dream of
Never thought that I could be leaving, you, so soon
It's too hard to take, looks like we are doomed.
I really would love to be with you,
but I...

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God shows us tht our life we live is 
borrowed 
To live ur life cuz ur not gauranteed 
tomorrow
he recently made a mistake tht 
forever changed our life   
He took away my cousin after only 
12 yrs of life  
well never get...

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Villanelle: Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes

Live with the borrowed lives made by your own mistakes
A stranger to your stricken selves a tenant in your body
Disown not the erred life battered by the body’s quakes

The life you can have is not...

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She walked around thinking 
all she would ever be was someone's yesterday
She couldn't understand why that wasn't enough

So she walked around thinking she was too much 
In stead of good enough 
She tried to dim her light
She tried to tone down on her personality 
Only...

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Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
The chant of purity
The cleansing my soul
The freeing my heart

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
I light a candle for an offering
And bow my head in prayer

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
I strike another match
Light the stick of incense in my hand
And take one deep breath
Nam Myoho...

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Borrowed Words of a Denizen Soul
David J Walker

I admit to the
Plagiarism of the language 
I am still learning to use
Day by day by day

So often the meanings mangled
So often the thoughts tangled
In the confusion of emotions 
Seeking the freedom of expression
From the lips of a...

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SOMETHING BORROWED a M M Phrasis
Enough of ennui,I may I might
the mind is an enchanting thing,senses
do not deceive.Days of prismatic colour
apparations of splendour,things are what
they seem, a mosaic, a prosaic voracity
and verity.
What are years then? Efforts of affectation,
dispositions by angels? No,the past is the
present,a chameleon...

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Borrowed Time

                                        Is time spent in...

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