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Premium Member Too Much Sadness For Me
there's too much sorrow...
don't you know
we are all going to die
a starting point always beckons a finish
sooner or later
no matter how
peaceful or painful
that final moment...

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Categories: starting point, sad, truth,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Random Acts of Kindness
A crazy old man once told me,
“Heaven is made of the things you give away.”
It appeared he was next in line for heaven
as he had...

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Categories: starting point, allegory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Too Much Sadness For Me- Video
I did a video of a poem that was Poem of the Week. Here is the link to the original poem. 

http://www.poetrysoup.com/poem/too_much_sadness_for_me_711084

With all that is...

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Categories: starting point, truth,
Form: Free verse
Gifts
Gifts

Gifts are what matter the most.
Where's the talent without its host?
Where's the paper without the pen?
What is repetition without doing again? 
Where's the car without...

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Categories: starting point, symbolism,
Form: List
Premium Member Her Four Aces
Grandma 85

She sits across the table 
from the best hand she has ever been dealt 
Her four Aces,  
The greatest joy of her life
Her...

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Categories: starting point, children, courage, joy, love,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member - Deep Breath -
When change does not delight
Life is constantly changing
We know it involves both pain and joy

It's when the day lights up
The awareness of the key
which opens...

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Categories: starting point, blessing, cheer up, faith,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Rebel No Anima No Animus
Archetypes flash straight from a pack of Tarot cards
anti-terror Jing Jang synthesis with neuro-spiritual precision
implants explosive animation from the deep unknown
like a taro rootstock growing...

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Categories: starting point, men, society, women,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Revolutions
"Revolutions"




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We are all for the Fall
in the seasons of His hands
where He pulls in the strings 
of all His puppets 
calling in cold legions 
in...

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Categories: starting point, faith, god, i am,
Form: Free verse
Life
you go through life and do your best
people think they know you, 
their perceptions clouded by unreal expectations
but really what do they know? nothing, not...

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Categories: starting point, life,
Form: Free verse
Saving a Marriage
It's a curiosity to me
how we are so alike,
yet, so different in this manner.
I could never survive in your union,
my soul craves a more intimate...

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Categories: starting point, divorce, friend, love, marriage,
Form: Free verse
Julius Caesar
JULIUS CAESAR
When you start reading
You show your feeling
But not in Julius Caesar 
Whose chapters dip you in eager 
Onto the streets of Rome
Lay a royal...

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Categories: starting point, adventure, betrayal, death of
Form: Epic
Science
Science is knowledge, magnificence pansophism! 
Extreme erudition of unmatched intellect, 
in all its compelling branches; 

The beautiful and dynamic achievement of flight. 
A kite flying...

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Categories: starting point, education, passion, school, science,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prayer of Blessings
God is pushing me one way but I continue to fight his hand in reluctance-ly 
 
I come before him to repent of my sins,...

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Categories: starting point, blessing, future, god, poetry,
Form: Free verse
This Little Light of Mine
This Little Light of Mine

I run though with a glow
That seems not to see afar off
But here is my starting point of achievement...
Mighty oceans appreciate...

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Categories: starting point, inspirational, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Imperial Corporate Jurisprudence, the Lurid Leviethan Part One -
I was born unto a woman and a man, and a government,
this was the Trinity, these were my employers,
entrance into this magical melee was acknowledged...

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Categories: starting point, history,
Form: Didactic

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