Greater
...I looked at her, her angel voice still playing in the sound room.
She sat surrounded by the band, just like we always do.
Her songs were mesmerizing, she had everything to make it,
and in that m...
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Categories:
face the music, music,
Form: Rhyme
Roots and Wings
...Listen up, my daughters, let me break it down
Life's a stage, but you're not here to clown
You've got to face the music, face it strong
Face your fears, show the world where you belong
Don't le...
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Categories:
face the music, confidence, daughter, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
On The Stage
...You assume that you are on the correct path, you assume that destiny will lead you out of the dark; you assume that I can read your body language; you assume that I know your figurative meaning, you ...
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Categories:
face the music, age, america, courage, dance,
Form: Narrative
Scared and Alone
..."I have been a stranger in a strange land." Bible, Exodus 2:22
Strange and shy
Strange and scared
Scared at home
Scared at school
School is frightening
School is scary
Scary kids
S...
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Categories:
face the music, fear, lonely, school,
Form: Blitz
Face the music
...Face the music
By Michelle Morris
08/05/2024
We all have to face the music
We all have to do our time
Experience and wisdom gained
As we move with the rhythm and rhymes
We all have to...
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Categories:
face the music, angel, blessing, encouraging, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Monday Rebound
...He rushed in the office with his bag in one hand, and coffee in the other hand; steam is shooting from his coffee cup, and he has eaten more than a dozen doughnut.
What on earth has he been doing...
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Categories:
face the music, absence, blessing, break up,
Form: Narrative
Have Mercy
...I’m honestly done with this horrible, angsty doubt inside
I slept in for too long that I’m sick of having it with myself, simply hiding
I’m genuinely gone glistening like the sun that has surely di...
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Categories:
face the music, angst, anxiety, hope, how
Form: Lyric
I Am All Ears
...Well, aren’t you a sight for sore EYES
Off the top of my HEAD its been nearly two years
Yes ,I have been keeping busy
A FINGER in every pie that’s me
It has been a bit of a struggle
I did put...
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Categories:
face the music, body, fun, silly,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Reed
...Anxiety peak's as mundane attention seeks.
Fear and excitement compete as boredom seeps.
This powerful small action is not an option I possess.
My desire to please is within reach, the winner of a...
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Categories:
face the music, life,
Form: Free verse
This Spaceship Is Sinking
...The Titanic played its music
Right up till the end
The band played on in the
predawn hours
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Categories:
face the music, earth, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Making Mandy Beg
...In New Orleans for some highjinks.
Here to rally ‘round the flag.
She’ll be open to suggestion
When I’ve got her bound and gagged.
I won’t need to solve the riddle
Of the chicken or the egg
To...
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Categories:
face the music, fantasy, gothic, satire,
Form: Lyric
Face the Music
...My summer garden revealed gay pansies with faces,
As the scarlet tanagers flew roundabout singing.
A rapt audience, the flowers beamed in all places,
In the hour that golden butterflies were wingi...
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Categories:
face the music, beauty, bird, color, flower,
Form: Rhyme
Double Down -A Rondel For Donald Trump
...A Rondel for Donald Trump
As those Fake News polls keep coming 'round
And their predictions drag you down,
Just face the music like a Man
Deny it all, the best you can:
Try to deny that deepen...
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Categories:
face the music, political,
Form: Roundel
Takes Pride In His Work
...She walks gingerly back to the pride,
sensing something’s not right,
Dropping her kill upon the grass,
greeting party’s nowhere in sight,
My cubs my beautiful cubs, calls them,
but only silen...
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Categories:
face the music, africa, allegory, allusion, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Clutching At Straws
...A loving father once said of his now deceased son, "I shall go to him, but he shall not return to ME"*. It was his way of acknowledgin...
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Categories:
face the music, analogy, bible, break up,
Form: Rhyme
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