Best Goodwill Poems

Ambassador of goodwill
A smile is all you wield
A warrior without a sword
Who will protect you
From bullies of sorts and sizes
You pretend to wear an armor
And carry an invisible shield
But sometimes
The hurt is too much to hide
As arrows graze your heart

While vultures see vulnerability
Simple minded naiveté
Many...

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Praise be to the tranquil home
Where care and amity abide
Like a well-worn book or favorite poem
In whose members we confide
And whose values are our guide

Ill-fated is the raging home 
Where resentment and cruelty reign
Like an outcast always bound to roam
Doomed to empty constant pain 
Where...

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My good friend Cletus looked mighty spiffy in his new attire.

New suit, shoes, shirt and tie - he was ready to set the world afire

He asked me what I thought about his new duds but I hadn't the heart to say,

That I had donated his...

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This is my challenge a challenge to all
It’s only for the strong so some of you may fall
It’s a challenge so simple, but so hard to do
And this is the challenge, I set before you
Place down your arms and pick up your pen
Wish FOR PEACE...

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A springtime ritual at my house is to rid my closet of old clothes.

Including outdated suits, shirts, pants, shoes, all to dispose.

Goodwill appreciates my donations in their stores to display.

It warms my soul to see folks buying stuff who have little to pay.

A week or...

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Twilight dawning eyes open 
as the heather bleat sings 
Into the coming night's dream 

Crickets ticking away in the long grass 
swaying thoughts drunken sailor sails 
time stands still for a moment peace 

Falsely promises defaced 
As meaningless flowers wither 
Where inside silence hides the...

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It’s Christmas every day at the Goodwill donation door
Where there’s so much Christmas to be given to the poor!  
Where the wreaths and trees pile up in a monument to excess
Next to trophies, fine china, and bourgeois marks of success
For which I once longed...

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Goodwill Ambassador Gershon
Kind, joyful poet, my assertion
Never tries to lampoon or deride
His poetry leaves us happy inside




4/25/2020

As this COVID-19 pandemic rages all around us, how encouraged I am when poets, like Gershon and others, use their gift of poetry to build up one another....

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More and more
its like a big-box-store
with what had been worn
(whether tattered or torn)
never given to the poor.
There's only rising prices
more and more.

While the making of beautiful
paintings or hours spent doing
needlecraft is tossed on piles
in frames
as detritus with no names
anymore.

Dust covered glassware
competes with sofa springs
for space...

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Goodwill comes with pain.
Brotherhood trumps the jealousy
of personal loss 
when valor sacrifices gain.

a quadro written Jan. 17, 2017...

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All of the wrongs we have done to each other,
We will overlook...
W's lawsuit against my church, because they will not permit him to smoke there,
My interminable and intolerable lateness,
J's calling me, 'pathetic',
MY frustration with W's 'INCORRECT' political opinions,
W's insults, via text message,
MY chauvinism about my...

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you have no idea
how much power
you wield
a word a smile
a minute of your time
enough to touch a soul
to shatter or heal a heart
be conscious of your strength
you have the capacity
to be superhero
or archvillain

let's make this world
a better place
there’s thirst for harmony
and need for healing



AP: 2nd...

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Shape Up Poetry Contest 
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Journey Journal Page
12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS
By Leon Enriquez



Joy to the World

Start with your heart to know love’s art:
String well each part as joy imparts;
Faith knows deep peace as hope greets cheer,
Love anchors lease with all things dear.



Day #1: The Christ

Christ is the true reason
For the...

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I'm stuck on this sidewalk alone
I can't contact god with no phone
Confusing religion
No carrier pigeon
Why doesn't god send down a drone?...

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