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Premium Member Conversation With My Soul
Dwell not, O soul, on yesterday, 
  on sorrows past and gone -
the sketch you drew so long ago, 
  today may be...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: failures, giving, love, wisdom,
Form: Verse



Premium Member The Clouds
"HOLDING HIS HAND"

*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?

"God's voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...

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Categories: failures, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Blame
Quote: A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
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Inspired by life’s goals, winners are...

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Categories: failures, life, loss, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Day My Eternal Friend
Day, my lifelong friend
Thousands of times have we said good morning to each other and
As many times have, we said goodnight,
You have wakened me up...

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Categories: failures, day, death, life,
Form: Personification
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It was in the sorrow
That I learned to empathize and care
It was in the darkness
That my heart spoke the best prayers
It was in the silence
That...

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Categories: failures, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, encouraging,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member As I Watch the Waves Crash
From precipice of memories, flashbacks nostalgic billow,
Thinking of you as I ruminate, adoring the views below,
Where waves oceanic dance, leaping on windy tempos,
Propagating ambitions of...

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Categories: failures, life, lost love, love,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Like the Tide
  My life, like the sea, ebbed and flowed,
A world littered with peaks and valleys
A painted vision like a chiaroscuro,
When times were sometimes light,...

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Categories: failures, love,
Form: Free verse
Amid the Jagged Shadows
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"Amid the jagged shadows of mossy leafless boughs; "
                ...

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Categories: failures, dark, fear,
Form: Free verse
Soulmate Love
Finding love is our unsure heart’s goal as edged on by our confident souls.  Some journey through life with love as their primary dream,...

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Categories: failures, best friend, blessing, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Things Change
A quote from "90 North" by Randall Jarrell:
"I see at last that all the knowledge
I wrung from darkness -- that the darkness flung me --
is...

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Categories: failures, age, best friend, boy,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member As Time Goes By
Born in cloak of modesty, life toddles, yet thrives
Musing of blissful eternity in domain of paradise
Befriending and beholding its virtuous design
Facing triumphs and failures of...

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Categories: failures, life,
Form: Verse
Premium Member What Fascinates Me
art inspires me, Van Gogh fascinates me! 
                                 
   ...

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Categories: failures, art, sky, stars,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member Sir Richard Branson - Rocket Man
Sir Richard Branson - Rocket Man
There was a boy who had not fared well at school
Years gone by and no one could call him a...

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Categories: failures, celebrity, inspirational, motivation,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Beyond the Cracks
Place parsed pennies, purposely upon pretty porcelain palms.
The wanderer, restrained her raised ranting wrists!
She fell to her Humpty Dumpty position,
unable to ever be put back...

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Categories: failures, abuse, anxiety,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Stop Right There
STOP RIGHT THERE!!!						
NOT SO FAST….							
Just where do you think you are going??!!
Do you think you can just walk away!!
You have work to do.
Tighten up that...

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Categories: failures, appreciation, hope, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs