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Best If Wishes Were Horses Beggars Would Ride Poems


Premium Member Grandpa's Prayer

Believe in God's Heaven, your wishes will soar, 
to be heard by family inside heaven's door. 

Tell grandpa and grandma, my daughter, your son 
of raising your children in the Florida sun. 

The Great Spirit will listen, to the words that you speak 
and judge...

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Categories: if wishes were horses beggars would ride, family, children, hope, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Reason Grandpa Writes
This syndrome they call Hurlers,  version MPS-1
I write to advise, alert all and to inform everyone
Their prayers are needed for the future of earth
Arrogance and greed must replace them with mirth

Believe in God's Heaven, your wishes will soar, 
to be heard by family inside...

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Categories: if wishes were horses beggars would ride, faith, fear, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Someone Said
Someone Said


If wishes were horses beggars would ride.
You told me this when I was a child in
Need of some want.
A desire never shared with a
Friend

I’m not sure what you meant.  Your meaning went
Sailing with the horse riding beggars.
Right now I feel as though I’m...

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Categories: if wishes were horses beggars would ride, life,
Form: Acrostic

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



One Invention; Industrial Revolution
Into the sunset we’ll ride 
And we’ll see how much you’ve grown 
By the last words you choose to leave behind 

We can pretend that heaven denied you 
because you found your own path 
We can pretend that we all don’t know what’s really going...

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Categories: if wishes were horses beggars would ride, allegory, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
If Wishes Come True
It is not uncommon to harbour wishes
And striving for accomplishing them
Life is but a never ceasing endeavour
Aimed at gratifying, its constant needs.

Human beings entertain diverse wishes
Some are intuitive and many conscious
A few are noble and bulk unrestrained
That constitute the anthropoid character.

If wishes are horses; beggars...

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Categories: if wishes were horses beggars would ride, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Story of My Life
It all started the moment I came out of my mother's womb
I did things without overthinking it
I lived like it was my last day on earth
Always took a leap of faith. 

But now, I don't know what it is I'm suffering from
But I think it's...

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Categories: if wishes were horses beggars would ride, 11th grade, sad, teenage,
Form: Free verse



Striking Out Against the Moon
I want to see your eyes
I want to know what it's like to hold your hands
I want to see the wrinkles around your eyes
I want to kiss your temples
I want to know what it's like to run my hands through your hair
I want you to...

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Categories: if wishes were horses beggars would ride, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member If Wishes Were--
"If wishes were horses, beggars would ride"---
if wishes were stars-- how grand and how wide
if wishes were Truth, the Bible would guide ---
if wishes were prayers, then God would decide 



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The "W" Word Poetry Contest-- by Constance La France!
The initial quote is from an old-fashioned...

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Categories: if wishes were horses beggars would ride, bible, faith, fantasy, prayer,
Form: Monorhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry