The Answer Depends
Why do some believe it’ll get better
while others are sure it’ll get worse
Why do some take wild chances
while others sit out the big dances
Why do some sock...
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Categories:
destiny, journey, life,
Form: Couplet
The Mystery Of DestinyDestiny, oh destiny, why hide thyself from me.
Come out, come out, for all to see.
A life filled with struggle, then at last a surprise.
Why not reveal now how I self-actualize?
Have I no choice of my destination,
How I’ll proceed in my maturation?
How many ways could there be?
Or outcomes to this mystery?
More than one, surely a few,
Leave...
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Categories:
adventure, destiny, growth, introspection,
Form: Sonnet
To Die is to LiveTo Die is To Live
To die is to live in a life more complete
Where sorrow and joy in eternity meet
It's not just the, but a sacred release,
A journey to stillness, a moment of peace.
To die is to rise from the weight of the clay,
To step out of time and be swept far away.
The chains of...
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Categories:
appreciation, beauty, destiny, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
The Hand ReaderIt was a misty morning in Moscow—
When fate and palm first softly crossed,
In gilded halls where secrets sleep,
I met a man both sharp and lost.
An oligarch with eyes of frost,
Berezovsky, his name well known,
His smile—a veil for storms within,
His heart, a throne turned into stone.
He ushered me with silken grace,
Into his room where silence spoke,
"Read...
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Categories:
destiny, business, corruption, cry, death
Form: Free verse
Anti-Intellectualism or not BEING THEREI never think my thoughts deep thoughts :
though I'm no Peter Sellers, they are
but common trite reactions. l do not live
an examined philosophic life; nor have I
focused fathomed understanding.
But -- there is, everywhere, widened blank confusion --
crowds who do not listen, do not hear, cannot ken,
even who do not choose NOT to grasp
what is...
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Categories:
destiny, 12th grade, confusion, culture,
Form: Free verse
Learn To Let GoYou cannot make work everything as per your plans
As there is already a roadmap
You cannot fix all the misunderstandings
As there is already a home built for trust issues
Don't put efforts to make undesired connections
As connections are not for long lasting
Follow mindfulness
As karma is real which hits in its way
Make a habit...
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Categories:
blue, confusion, desire, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Unexplainable
Unexplainable
Generations comes forth, Generations passing.
People acknowledging personal memoirs,
Reflections with the truth, No assumptions.
Accommodations inexplicable, unlike experiences.
Delays of Mysteries are similar when a loved one
transcends to another dimension they often see
things unexplainable that the breathing can't see or
explain.
Whilst the Sun and Moon not only rises and sets
Non-existent is concealed.
Rebirth:...
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Categories:
destiny, adventure, appreciation, birth, celebration,
Form: Free verse
The cry of the heartMy heart cries
With no tears and no sounds
But not less sadness and sorrow
Aging, sickness and disabilities come one by one
Happiness and youth comes and goes
Nothing in this world will last
Maybe only love in my heart
Or maybe in your memory...
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Categories:
age, destiny, happiness, sad,
Form: Free verse
a little complicatedIt’s a little complicated - what isn’t? But my plans have changed (again).
Under some pressure - but not really - I was able to switch schools.
From Johns Hopkins university to the Université Paris Cité.
No doubt, the Hopkins acceptance helped.
It’s like when you have a boyfriend - how the other boys suddenly find you more attractive?
Someone...
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Categories:
destiny, paris, school, student,
Form: Free verse
SOON SHALL BE MINE ADORNING WIFE- ---There is a love, for which can't be explained;
I know that I have a need for her always;
I shall shower her with an arrangement of prayers;
Forward she's my adorned beloved darling dear;
She lives and breathes, Father has allowed such;
One day soon she shall be my adorning wife:
8/5/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025©
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Categories:
addiction, appreciation, destiny, future,
Form: Rhyme
diamonddiamond
in its rough state
clear, transparent, and hard
gifted jeweler brings out best
now through his hands it reflects sparkling light
so are we like a rough diamond
through Jesus we become
a cut gemstone
diamond
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Categories:
destiny, faith, strength,
Form: Rictameter
The Unraveling of Restraint
A mind untrained to a state of exquisite harmony, he shares with careful awareness, yet boldly uninhibited.
She listens with ease, confident in his direction.
Grounded in solitude, her only peace is his presence.
Her sanity circles kin, while distancing her from Truth.
She plants seeds for them to season; for this, she smiles.
A...
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Categories:
appreciation, confidence, destiny,
Form: Other
The Journey Within
Presently, God has a plan and purpose that was set in
motion before we were born. His love for us allows us
to be participants in the JOURNEY to our destiny. Indeed,
we are not robots or mortals in motion via instincts.
Presently, all of us exist in space and time. These two entities,
space and time, make up our...
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Categories:
destiny, dream, god, journey,
Form: Free verse
Nuance in the ShadowIt’s not always the big things that break us—
it’s the shimmer we miss
on the ordinary day.
When grief doesn’t arrive with a wail,
but as a subtle ache,
a missed beat,
a song that plays when no one’s listening.
I remember being happy once—
but I don’t trust the memory.
Too many mirrors,
too much static.
I learned to smile in sepia.
And when the...
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Categories:
destiny, angst, beauty, care, conflict,
Form: Free verse
If I were to,Lock ruby ridden doors for roach ridden floors bleed without grace
Roused rounded wounds throughout nightly escapes
And gaping fields of endless escapades
And gaping seas my moses blade has wrenched to dictate.
Pace rotting church floors, so I merry-may await god to knock upon my door alike a loving mother
His guilty spires to sing and relapse my...
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Categories:
destiny,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Destiny Poems
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