What Breaks My Heart
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I love you – even when the smile is shy
I love you, even when I can’t say why
I love you, when my tears just won’t dry
I love you, with a love I can’t deny
What breaks my heart completely,...
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Categories:
dissuades, appreciation, god, heart, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Keep Believing!
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I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us. ~ Anne Lamott
In the still of a quiet morning,
as the...
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Categories:
dissuades, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Carpe Diem Seize the Day
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Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.- Mother Teresa
Breathless daughter, remember that time soon fades
Challenges arise and hope is not ...
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Categories:
dissuades, appreciation, blessing, inspirational, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Building Tension
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Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see. – Quote by Helen Keller
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Categories:
dissuades, death,
Form: Free verse
Consciousness Correction
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I've always had an aversion to emotions with a negative trait.
Anger doesn't dissipate with age, but I don't fly in to a rage
when I feel the first inkling of frustration. Instead, I contemplate
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Categories:
dissuades, anger, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Autumn Praise
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Dancing through the hearts of those who see
Grace being poured out on the mysteries,
Harvest time, gentling like music, soft and free
Sighing with the wonders of nature’s histories...
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Categories:
dissuades, appreciation, autumn, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Rhyme
Walking On Air
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When you’re alone and afraid
Tears are falling like rain
Shadows are calling your name
Doubts make you feel so ashamed
It is then… during your worries
When you call out to the On...
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Categories:
dissuades, christian, faith, god, hope,
Form: Free verse
Gratitude For Grace
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Life gets in the way and somedays I find it hard
To even laugh or play - after all is said and done
Have I even prayed?
The gratitude that I should
Have shared with my God, the One...
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Categories:
dissuades, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Racism Forgotten
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Prejudice within a heart
Colors all the world in hues
Of melancholy and haunting
Darkness in clouds of mourning
Laughter stilled by a bigot’s zeal
Racism within the soul
Colors ...
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Categories:
dissuades, black african american, dark,
Form: Free verse
A Growing Hope
...Violent as the gleaming blade
Of a vicious criminal crazed
Ferocious as the lion’s jaw
Lingering on an innocent calf
This wicked affliction forces
Its teeth into the harmless heart
Bites wildly...
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Categories:
dissuades, angst, cancer, fear, hope,
Form: Free verse
Whimsical Wonderings of Words
...Whimsical wonderings worth writing where we
Often offer our ownership of ornate oratory obligations
Realizing ramifications; radiant ramblings really require respo...
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Categories:
dissuades, muse,
Form: Acrostic
The Domination of Mindless Replication
...Everybody still has bits and pieces that make us human, traits from a time before we became convoluted replicas unwittingly tracing our steps to the grave. We all started with hearts full of desire, ...
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Categories:
dissuades, angst, conflict, corruption, humanity,
Form: Free verse
When I'M Gone
...When I'm Gone
Will you get to know me
When I'm gone
After endings evolve into
New beginnings
When questions cease to arise
What is it about another's presence
That so often dissuades inquiry
W...
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Categories:
dissuades, family,
Form: Free verse