How sharp those failings cry
I look upon the world today as I have done all my life.
A laugh, a smile, worry or ok, it needs to be met head-on for all its strife.
Some days I’ll wake and feel the sun recharging my fading smile.
Some days I’ll wake and no matter how bright the sky sorrow will darken my mind.
I’ll
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Categories:
failings, absence, abuse, age, cry,
Form: Free verse
Failings of Leaders
The failings of leaders
Not taking into account
The needs of the people
Apart from their very own
They live in splendour
With steaks for dinner
Soft pillows to rest on
The people, skin and bone
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Categories:
failings, betrayal, corruption, discrimination, fear,
Form: McWhirtle
Fiscal Failings
&
my
wallet
is like an
onion; when
I open it up, it
makes Me
want to
cry
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Categories:
failings, funny, money,
Form: Shape
Blessed Despite My Failings
It wasn’t so long ago
I lost my heart to a man I didn’t know
Now I’m heading home
With five little ones in tow
Now I’ve hit my fifties
What a relief
Looking back on the years gone by
Life has not been all that kind, I cannot lie
But the little ones have grown
And have little one’s of their own
With guidance
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Categories:
failings, christian,
Form: Sonnet
Personal Failings
our personal failings are held inside
they show themselves when we call upon
them &
when we least expect them to rear their
ugly head---
lucky are those who have people round them
to distract from the suffering
which the self inflicts upon itself
when undergoing the regret of
personal failings,
but ironic is the fact that
to suffer is to survive &
to survive is
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Categories:
failings, life,
Form: Free verse
Dual Failings
The sins of the father
Are visited upon the son
But the failings of the mother
Come calling as well.
I hear the blows land
From down the hallway
Helpless to intervene
Powerless to prevent them.
One decision from the past
Haunts everyday.
Reiterating my dual failings
As both a mother and a daughter.
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Categories:
failings, daughter, family, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse