I Let It Slip Away
...I let it slip away . . .
a beautiful beautiful day.
I’d looked out my window and seen
blue sky and grass so green.
Then back in bed I lay
as I slept the morning away.
At last I awoke but ...
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Categories:
contriteness, may,
Form: Rhyme
Unforgettable Rose
...“Love is like a rose. When pressed between two lifetimes, it will last forever.” – Anonymous
In vast wilderness of emerald summer, rose blossoms brightness,
Like the moon's latterly ...
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Categories:
contriteness, appreciation, beauty, memory, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Agonizing Contriteness Fashions Lugubriousness
...Solitude breeds malignant nemesis
couched as woe seated heavily
within mine angst
riddled quavering psyche
blinding clairvoyance
debilitates enthusiastic frequency
wavelengths propagate unfoun...
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Categories:
contriteness, 12th grade, absence, anger,
Form: Free verse
Say It and Mean It
...Whenever you slight someone,
sincerely say "I apologize"
You said something bad or untrue
about Jane? Tell her, "I apologize"
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Categories:
contriteness, encouraging, perspective, truth,
Form: Free verse
The Remaking
...I stand where the sunset hugely spills
Out upon subdued but still hotly
Glowering plains...
Now, perhaps, I should wistfully
Recall my own homelands; her
Diminished a...
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Categories:
contriteness, celebration, fate, hope,
Form: Rhyme
The Self
...What kind of day was it. Clean
the house. Notice the full moon.
Read a sheaf of old poems.
Listen to jazz tunes. Open mail.
Refuse to make of it more
than it was. What is it for,
don't ask. ...
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Categories:
contriteness, care, day, fear, moon,
Form: Verse
Trouble
...If in trouble always pray and ask for Jesus's nod.
Through Him if He wills, the Holy Spirits wisdom will get you to God.
With the Lord all things are possible.
Pray in contriteness, humbly, and no...
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Categories:
contriteness, faith, faith, jesus,
Form: Rhyme