Best Hold Open Poems

“Throw Kindness around like confetti” (motto attributed to Kate Spade)

Throw kindness around like confetti.
Find chances wherever you go.
There's no act of kindness that’s petty
when light...

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Virgen de Guadalupe
scrape her roses from the floor
The lighted path shimmers
in the mountains
as we walk like goats
surefooted and into high
places
Lofty dreams encompass
the transitions
and splendor shakes...

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In our fast paced twentieth century world..,

We oft' have neglected to stop to smell the roses,
Oft' we used to bow our heads silently to pray,
As...

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Love Your Neighbor


Jesus said it best but many of us disagree his humble plea
 Shades of red, white & blue but nothing knew
 It used...

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A Call For Morality 

It used to mean something to hold open a door for your neighbor
 Old school principles have been long forgotten now...

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I had a love, but it flew like a bird
out of the cage but never heard.

I had a voice that spoke with tenderness,
rendered softly, but...

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Remember me well as I give thanks to each mother.
You women of this world …are simply like no other!
Right from conception to those dreaded contractions.
The...

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Love Will Keep Us Together

Since the fall of 1989 I have written poems
 For some people it may touch a more spiritual side or awakening
...

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I could sleep here if my heart would slow,
Breathing you in, savouring this embrace,
Can't help smiling wrapped in you,
I'm drawn to your eyes as I...

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I measure time now in heartbeats
When I hold open a door, I treasure the smile
Humanity, me or all of you, I do not know
I know...

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Smile Is Contagious

let's love one another brother stop all the hate going around
 be proud of who you are on the inside & choose
 to...

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Let Me Tell You I Get No Respect

What's wrong with society today let me say
 It's not fashionable anymore to hold open the door
 You...

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From across the world
And against all odds
Their prayers were heard
By a Love-struck God.

He heard each's mirrored plea
For someone who brings out the best in me
A...

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Why did he take my friend away
I really thought that she would stay
I couldn't imagine a life without
Her words of wisdom,  always about
She'd never...

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A grain of Sand
 
A grain of shifting sand, lying upon life’s shore.
Captured –carried within turbulent winds, doth soar
into the unknown ether, until, tis no...

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