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Best Take Stock Poems


Do Not Grieve Your Muse
...(For My Younger Self)



You have forgotten your muse.
You neglected her, in the hustle and bustle
of city life, in trying to carve a niche,
driving yourself too hard -
thinking it......

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Categories: take stock, introspection, life, poetry, youth,
Form: Free verse
One Less Fortunate
...Who are the less fortunate?
What are their names?
Are they the crippled,
the blind, the lame?

Is a man in a wheelchair
lesser than I?
His heart may hold treasures
that no one can buy

Does......

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Categories: take stock, deep, perspective, riddle, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Book
...The Book

How good the night that darkens so
To guide me to my rest.
Where a favored Book lights up my eyes
As I nestle to my nest.

A few pages turned to praise the Lord
Seems too little pri......

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Categories: take stock, bible, celebration, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



How Would You Think Without It
...I hear some college students claim
they don’t stand against free speech,
all they want to ban is what’s ‘hateful,’
it will ‘improve’ society.

In truth they will do no such thing,
they serve a ......

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Categories: take stock, appreciation, freedom, growth, how
Form: Rhyme
Faith
...Faith, The substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

How is your faith, will it hold up under life's weight or would you fold from being worldly controlled or, do your faith ......

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Categories: take stock, appreciation, beautiful, christian, confidence,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Shark Soup
...Tim had all the necessary ingredients right next to his ancient burner


Shark teeth dangling from a sunken necklace at the cutting edge but

The amulet had turned into chains and shackles grind......

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Categories: take stock, ocean,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Alongside the Tick of the Clock
...It is then, that time does mock,
in fractured, punctuated dreams.
Alongside the tick of the clock.

Elusive, as sea serpents in a Loch,
your reflection, not always as it seems.
It is th......

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Categories: take stock, life, philosophytime, time,
Form: Villanelle
Premium Member Fostering a Reign of Peace
...How easy it is to get wrapped up
In our own little universe
The cocoon of the daily grind
Of going about our business
Trying to protect our turf
‘Cause we’re more fragile than we let on
We live......

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Categories: take stock, community, forgiveness, god, life,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Something To Be Thankful For
...As Thanksgiving Day rolls around again,
I take stock of my life and I’d like to say,
That every experience I have ever had,
Has helped shape who I am today.
Life is a balance of highs and lows.
......

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© Diana77 Wh  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: take stock, family, life, love, thanksgiving,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member A Christmas Ago
...A CHRISTMAS AGO

My Christmas present list 
Every year
Got longer and longer,
What to buy
Whether far or near
I certainly have always got joy
Out of giving,  
Just two months ago, I thought
......

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Categories: take stock, christmas, faith, family,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Summer Bliss
...Only on his veranda does he feel like the king of his castle
No better place to put up his feet and take stock
 
Much gratitude swells when he sits back with contentment
Y......

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Categories: take stock, appreciation, dream, happiness, home,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Add It All Up
...Old and new, rich and poor, and
  those of whom you're not quite sure
school and work, and some on the block
  others of whom you oughta take stock

Fair-weather or true-blue
  they've all supp......

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Categories: take stock, friend, friendship, life,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member Time Immemorial
...There's a time to run, a time to rest
   A time to take stock, a time to reflect
 
A time to forgive, a time to forget
   A time to beget, a time to reset

A time to surrender, a time to fold
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Categories: take stock, faith, time,
Form: Couplet
Unreality, Again
...new dawn 
on the horizon
      we know 
        that the fantasies 
of the
       night
will stumble 
into a cruel 
daylight
      unreality, however has 
        its" ways 
of seeping int......

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Categories: take stock, fantasy
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Wherefore
...Another year's passed
In the blink of an eye
  Time to take stock
  Once more to ask
What, When and Why

What have I accomplished?
When will I do more?
Why have I delayed?
  ~ Wherefore?......

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Categories: take stock, introspection, motivation, new year,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry