Sad Couplet Poems

I was a marvelous ophthalmologist, impacting how others saw this world,
As tomorrow one day sees yesterday, on lanes where hued leaves swirled.

I corrected hazy, crazy...

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The clock strikes four;

I’m never like before;

I’ve learnt to take life’s drink

Up to the lees from the brink;

Multiple layers of joy

Help me sail my humble...

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When skies are puzzled clouds of pain
                  ...

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Our brains, the experts do opine,
Have a left side, a right side, and a dividing line –
But that daunting corpus callosum
I fear to cross it...

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   Leary of those who are cheery? ~
  
      Your life is probably dreary
...

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Written: March 07, 2024 For Constance La France Contest  

Quote by Rumi  "You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows....

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They enrich life day by day.
By ones side they'll always stay.
We only notice when they depart
The paw prints they left on our heart.
Looking back, there's...

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My love for words creates mental pain-
when they race around in my befogged brain.
I sit here dreaming- pen held in my hand; 
mind burning aglow...

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Pearl of the Orient
“Farewell, my adored Land, region of the sun caressed,
Pearl of the Orient Sea, our Eden lost,
With gladness I give you my life,...

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In time’s vast flow in forward gears,
What use these fears for a few years?

Life has given more than enough,
Why cough over missing stuff?

Every day dawns...

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   Do the crickets in the trees
     welcome a breeze
   Can a frog on a lily pad
...

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"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They...

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Aged chains are hampering me.
They get heavier constantly.

Age changes everything,
Voices crackle, making it hard to sing.

Walking and talking become a chore,
The conversation is a bore.

When...

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Look at me, then look away.
Don't let your eyes linger, or stay.

If you look, please don't see,
the sadness that lives within me.

Don't see the pain,...

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I hung my heart upon the Christmas tree
Placed my hope in a love that came so free
Baby Jesus curled his little finger around mine
Said, I...

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