The Moon and Her Midnight Star
...If I could be your brightest moon
and you my midnight star,
I’d travel through the universe
to meet you where you are.
All the other stars I’d leave
and follow you forever,
for never will I ...
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Categories:
cronin, devotion, inspirational love, love,
Form: Rhyme
Slipping Away
...Even though it feels somehow
like you’re already slipping away
I have to remember to tell myself
how blessed I am for each day
I love the ways you try so hard
to see the smile I keep
maki...
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Categories:
cronin, age, best friend, death,
Form: Rhyme
Letters From Dad
...My darling Miss America
before I bid you adieu
I wanted you to know my dear
how proud I am of you
In my heart I always knew
that you would find your way
still you had me pretty nervous
r...
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Categories:
cronin, america, blessing, encouraging, father,
Form: Rhyme
Me Too
...Today I saw the woman
who seemed missing of her smile.
I watched her there
and we started to stare
at each other for a while.
I looked at her mouth
and heard her say,
“To thine own sel...
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Categories:
cronin, anxiety, character, conflict, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Bee To Be
...Then soon the climate migration began
when one they called Ian had ravaged our land
So fiercely he raged with his power and might
all would lay waist in the wake of his flight
So was the damag...
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Categories:
cronin, america, community, environment, future,
Form: Rhyme
Dying For You
...Since the day you left
I’ve been saying goodbye
with a heart full of hope
someday I’d know why
but now it seems I have to let you go
All my strength
is all but gone
from the ledge
you l...
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Categories:
cronin, bereavement, children, daughter, death,
Form: Rhyme
Time Is Nigh
...When time is nigh
means time to die
and now you know
the when and why
suddenly you have
so many reasons to live
Wishing for ways
you could change all the days
your raging pain
kept you...
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Categories:
cronin, anger, anxiety, death, grief,
Form: Rhyme
Truth of Obscurity
...I don’t need to be told what I’ve seen
whether it’s real or a sinister scheme
I need a world where I know the rules
which we call wise which we call fools
Where the lines in the sand are a lot...
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Categories:
cronin, america, corruption, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Letter From Dad
...My Dearest Miss America,
the time has come for you
to use your voice
and make your choice
of the future you shall choose.
Each suitor is quite different
in most explicit ways,
like where...
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Categories:
cronin, america, change, conflict, father,
Form: Rhyme
Christianity
...My body, my choice,
my mind and my voice,
all were entrusted to me,
by the same righteous God
some now herald and laud
in their white Christianity.
You see my confusion
stems from this delu...
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Categories:
cronin, america, anger, bible, character,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Quick Question
...How can you say
every life should be saved
when you have no concern for the living,
for the hungry and poor
you have saved that life for
yet find yourself so unforgiving?
~Jeannie Cronin...
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Categories:
cronin, abortion, america, anger, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Hello Fellow Travelers
...Hello fellow travelers
out there on your own,
just checking in
to let you know
the danger here has grown.
An evil demon monster,
like the one from “Stranger Things”
has whipped a storm of ...
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Categories:
cronin, america, anxiety, betrayal, bullying,
Form: Rhyme
A Poem Today
...I tried again writing a poem today,
so many things I’ve been wanting to say.
I picked up my pen and stared at the page,
then quickly got lost in a frustrated rage.
Something has changed in the...
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Categories:
cronin, anger, anxiety, how i
Form: Rhyme
Willful Blindness
...Because of you whom choose to live
your lives in willful blindness,
whom know inside you’ve failed yet
still expect a world of kindness,
whom weren’t there to show you care
although you knew it...
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Categories:
cronin, america, anxiety, character, culture,
Form: Rhyme
Uss American Liberty
...MAYDAY! MADAY! MAYDAY!
Can anyone hear me!?! Over...
This is the USS American Liberty…
We have capsized in the sea of despair...
coordinates...21st century, 45th U.S. President...please send e...
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Categories:
cronin, america, angst, anti bullying,
Form: Free verse
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