The Circle of Life
I never really minded the species that inhabited me.
I had especially taken a liking to man, however.
"I'll take care of you.", they promised.
I believed it--
We became interdependent, inseparable.
He relied on me, and I relied on Him.
I gave Him food, water, and air, He gave me towering buildings that grasped at my
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Categories:
circle of life, 9th grade, earth,
Form: Free verse
fruit
fruit
we sway in the wind
but i grasp the air
in hopes it can sweep me from this branch
this branch-
preserving the purity of my skin-
is forced to let me fall
i rip from the loosening grip of my cluster
a wound on my side-
evidence of a new chance-
gifted by violent departure
i feel the air on my palms
i smash into
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Categories:
circle of life, 12th grade, childhood, death,
Form: Free verse
Circle of Life
God controls when the music stops.
A chair is taken away and an important person in my life is taken out.
As life continues, the music changes and I change with it.
With each chair moving, the tempo and mood of the music changes, but God is there.
Important chunks of who I
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Categories:
circle of life, death, god, grief, life,
Form: Free verse
As The Circle Of Life Revolves
Wheels turn
The circle of completion
always comes around....
From birth
To death
From the first tear
To last sigh
We forge onward
In hopes to find.....
For in a mere inkling of existence..
Of all the silent moments
Pondering
Retracing
Building and tearing down
Is it not the spirit we strive to understand
As I walk distant memories
Hoping to fulfill thoughts lingering in the mind
Pushing onward
Editing
Placing all
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Categories:
circle of life, art, beauty, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
Circle of Life
The leaves are falling
Autumn's calling
Summer bids goodbye.
They'll be showers
Watering winters flowers
As a cold wind passes by.
There will be snow
Winter's star of the show
When snowflakes from heaven arrive.
Then songbirds will sing
To welcome in spring
Completing the circle of life.
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Categories:
circle of life, seasons,
Form: Rhyme
Circle of Life
When I was a lad growing up in the small village of Wakenda, I would sometimes sit on the back porch and watch the stars move across the night sky. I would listen to the tune of the birds and farm animals calling to me every morning. A choir of a hundred different voices singing
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Categories:
circle of life, poetry,
Form: Haibun
CIRCLE OF LIFE
A two edged knife that deluges us
With both the midlife and afterlife
Like a tempest,
It sways us to ruination and obscurity
Then hoists us to reclamation and lucidity
The circle of life!
It steers us through despair and hope
And leaves us in a state of mélange
Where the failure to reset once more
Becomes the anchor of
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Categories:
circle of life, life,
Form: Free verse
Zero: the Circle of Life
Zero – The Circle of Life
Zero is from where we all start
An infinite expanse of nothing and all
From the abyss do we rise
To claim our fated right
Some fadeaway into the darkness
Some become one with the light
Few settle on the shades of grey
Others ride the tides of time
Who we were, who we became
Is a thought lost
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Categories:
circle of life, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
Transition
In the end, what is there to be, but alone?
To recognize at last and say goodbye
To all those things that were not I;
To join the others who wait eternal
For another touch of another breath that is life;
The passage that returns and returns,
As we start alone, and end alone,
And in between have those great and grand
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Categories:
circle of life, change, god, heaven, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Circle of Life
Circle of Life
Each of all that lives on the earth has a circle in the web of life. Take a common stone for example. The stone forced up from the earth by the tectonic plates creates mountains. The mountains broken down by wind, rain and ice create boulders, rocks, and sand. These tumble down the
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Categories:
circle of life, life, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
The Circle of Life: Looking For Answers - Title By Steve Miller
I still don't fully understand why I'm even here.
I haven't found that "purpose" that others talk about.
I analyze my life at the end of every year,
Only to discover another year of mental drought.
I live my life day after day and week after week,
Waiting for a sign to tell me that what I do is right.
All
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Categories:
circle of life, writing,
Form: Rhyme
Center of the Circle of Life
At the center of the circle of life stands
The great I Am of all that has ever existed,
‘Tis true the best our lives s/he commands
Though in our own ways we’ve persisted.
The wise creator has given us a free will
At the center of the circle of life stands
Our example of peace, from ages still,
Yet our selfishness
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Categories:
circle of life, perspective, spiritual, uplifting,
Form: Quatern
Parents
Through pain you were born,
with love you were raised,
with hope we sent you off,
with pride we watched you
from afar, not realizing
your dawn was our dusk.
Contest: BITE SIZE POEM no27 Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Line Gauthier
Dated: 19th November 2021
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Categories:
circle of life, children, life, parents, pride,
Form: Free verse
The Circle of Life
The Day Your Child Stabs You
Version 1
In order to weep
I guess I must care;
At least enough to stress
Over these words, to share.
To her free mind, half mine
She stares down at me...
But not for one second
But perpetual eternity.
Mistakes, unforgiven,
Yet nodded upon,
social contracts in the air
But forever shunned.
The air thick with resentment
Over war
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Categories:
circle of life, mental illness,
Form: Free verse
Circle of Life
Circle of LIFE
The circle of Life is a mystery on its own,
It teaches me where I do not belong.
You see, it intrigues
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Categories:
circle of life, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
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