NEW YEARS BAKE OFF
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My Greek grandmother and godmother, cousins,
My grandma baked and cooked homely,
My Nona, my godmother exotically,
Each one perfect, one couldn’t fault either,
Their husbands, playing backgam...
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Categories:
competitiveness, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme
Pillow Talk
...hanging out amongst those who are like minded
new to the group naive to the lies and deceptions
groomed with gifts fun spotlight low expectations
time goes by everything great money had you blinde...
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Categories:
competitiveness, identity, image, scary, violence,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme
If I Had a Choice
..."if I had a choice"
if I had a choice of freedom experienced by wondrous experts
gliding with eagles way high within light from heaven or
floating with whales amongst the far and wide in...
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Categories:
competitiveness, appreciation, celebration, endurance, freedom,
Form: Light Verse
After You
...After you, I lost
my strength, my cheerfulness
and even my pride.
And I forgot the name of
my friends.
After you, I lost my life's
fragrance, my will to live,
the competitiveness and the dri...
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Categories:
competitiveness, allusion,
Form: Rhyme
Competitiveness In Business
...Competitiveness in business
Is a sorry sight to witness
Cheating if the chance allows
Lie, slander put them down
Compare it to a sporting fixture
You can’t cheat with refs around
Upfron...
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Categories:
competitiveness, business,
Form: Rhyme
Integrated For Your Approval
...That ADHD got me judged unfavourably,
impulsive interactions, easily distracted,
attention bouncing behaviour unique to me,
the odd one out and always told
different people, same old...
s...
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Categories:
competitiveness, people,
Form: Rhyme
She Protests Too Much
...With irascible words, she continues to bemoan
Writing about poets with whom she picks a bone
Chastising those who like to compete in contests
She's infected with hate, like a pustul...
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Categories:
competitiveness, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
A Change of Heart
...Today was the same as every other day in quarantine. Wake up. Change into different PJs. Eat. Watch Netflix. Eat. And eat again. Go to sleep. Start over. Despite the repetition, there was a slight al...
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Categories:
competitiveness, change, dream, emotions, growing
Form: Free verse
Audacity of Democracy
...Are you,
or have you ever been,
a Trumpist?
Asks the Restorative Justice Committee
inviting an open discussion
with Christian evangelicals
about their new green global loyalties
And how th...
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Categories:
competitiveness, culture, environment, green, health,
Form: Political Verse
Path of the Soul
...I have lived on the cusp of anxiety and bewilderment.
Fragmented, mankind's collective consciousness has become. Competitiveness is a hindrance to our natural state, wholeness; peaceful interconnec...
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Categories:
competitiveness, deep, depression, emotions, feelings,
Form: Free verse
The Parable of the Ant Hill
...Upon the mighty spot called Golgotha was a most vicious army of ants. They were the hardest worker ants you would ever want to run into, but they had one problem. They all wanted to be the top ant an...
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Categories:
competitiveness, body, character, christian, community,
Form: Prose
The 'Talent' Gene
...It is the most selfish gene
The one that make us distinguishable
Our uniqueness and special abilities
We owe it all to its infinite mutations
It is the most abundant and the most taken for gran...
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Categories:
competitiveness, inspirational, planet,
Form: Prose
Things
...Moments like this are few and far between
I don’t know exactly what I mean
Sometimes I can just sit here
Wondering and pondering
I stare off into space
Looking into my own little place
Full of dreams...
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Categories:
competitiveness, life,
Form: Free verse
Two Closely Born Sons
...Still just in diapers himself and already his brother’s keeper;
Logan watches lovingly as Lucas naps in sleepers.
Perhaps it’s in his DNA or the symptoms of a first born son,
But Logan has bonded ...
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Categories:
competitiveness, brotherbrother, brother,
Form: Rhyme
Intuitive Visions
...In my life I have seen infinitesimal good I ponder all the time why is life so unkind. I live my
life the best way that I could, but someone always despised where I stood.
The competitiveness o...
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Categories:
competitiveness, imagination, introspection, life, visionarylife,
Form: Light Verse
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