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Premium Member To My Granddaughter
I look and ponder, watch you grow in haste
Explore with wonder, new experience taste
No fear encountered as you learn the ropes 
Your sails adjusting, full...

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Categories: promptings, grandchild, light, trust,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Out of My League
Who coined this term?
Who decided to limit one’s spirit?
Who decided to deprecate those qualities that remain hidden?

Out of my league…
What is the measure?
Who created the...

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Categories: promptings, identity, image, self, integrity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Promise of What You Can Be
If the promptings in you are the works that you do
And you trust in the Word that is free
Then you live by the light, and...

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Categories: promptings, faith, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Rhyme
Let Us Try Again
Are you going to make up for this present
Loss?
Work it out and tell me what all that
Despair is for?
They say wherever there is a will,...

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Categories: promptings, devotion,
Form: Verse
Known As a Family
One way to celebrate as a family
begins with everyone’s availability;
a reality to fulfill, a joy to keep
that enables one to take part
and be present with...

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Categories: promptings, family, life, family, family,
Form: Concrete



Up Among Clouds
How I wish I could have cuddled,
all the nuggets and wisdom
he gave me through his lifetime---
but some went in the autumn anvil
and out the other...

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© Noel Onat  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: promptings, father son, remember,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Gain Happiness
To gain happiness
And have a joyful heart,
Follow these suggestions
And you will know life’s purpose

Seek
Look for God’s guidance.
Gaze into the beautiful Heavens. 
Ask the Lord to...

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Categories: promptings, faith, inspirational, life, god,
Form: Didactic
Deja Vu
Déjà vu

Your brain merely catching up with memory
familiar dreams, strange places--sensory
elusive moments between consciousness and sleep
free- falling frames-inadvertently we leap

Unwittingly knowing we’ve been there before
people,...

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Categories: promptings, memory,
Form: Rhyme
When I Lay My First Kiss
I heard the 
rustle of 
the wind
I heard the 
laughter of 
the frond
I felt the 
calm of the 
night
I smelt the 
fragrance 
of the 
flower
They...

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Categories: promptings, introspection
Form: Blank verse
Premium Member Moments In Our Farmhouse
Most often,  I would affectionately ponder and recall how  magical times were
in our  farmhouse— daisies,  herbs, and even pebbles  glossed...

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Categories: promptings, farm, grandmother, remember,
Form: Narrative
Kaddosh
Elsewhere in biblical literature or in many human experiences
the act of being in the world with others speaks volumes
about who we are and how we...

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Categories: promptings, faith, inspirational, life, god,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Phoenix Has Died
The phoenix has died
I can see that now
I can see it in your eyes.
Those bright blue, youthful eyes
once so hopeful, now restless...unfocused.

Once you were a...

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Categories: promptings, angst, anxiety, mother son,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Sneezing
I remember now
This odd strange endow
Only I know how


Watch cold bug strike me
Weak knees and dizzy
Just like my mummy


Awkward and funny
Focus feels fluffy
Weary feet dreary


Wet...

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Categories: promptings, change,
Form: Rhyme
A Piece of Me
Lying in the dark I see
Another piece or part of me

It's within reach of my small hand
But requires the journey to another land

I think I...

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© J. Dover  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: promptings, dedication, happiness, life, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Trembling Dreams
I remember those moments
So far from me now, the past echoes
Defeated by the silence of my womb,
The deafening silence breaking through
Peaceful moments, gentle breathes,
Serenity, sincerity,...

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Categories: promptings, baby, lost love,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs