I Will Follow You
...I will shoulder the load.
Lay your burdens on me.
And we’ll walk down the road
Out of history.
Here, I offer my hand.
You can take up the lead.
‘Cross this bone-weary land.
I know we’ll succee...
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Categories:
get up and go, love,
Form: Rhyme
Dream On
...I have lost my get-up-and-go,
It got up and went.
I don't know how it got up
As it was looking tired. And spent.
It must have left quietly,
It never made a sound,
I can't be bothered to look ...
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Categories:
get up and go, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Street Entrepeneur
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He sat on the corner his back quite bent,
each dollar he collected, he quickly spent.
His sign’s report,
He needed support,
His get up and go had got up and went.
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Categories:
get up and go, drug, jobs, work,
Form: Limerick
Gumption
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With a hitch in my get-along
which set me wrong
my get-up-and-go
is sadly misplaced
it done got up and went
cannot be traced
it's really too tragic
my mojo is spent
I need someone w...
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Categories:
get up and go, emotions, fun, humorous, magic,
Form: Rhyme
Stimulation
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Hot coffee
black coffee
really has the means
when I sup but half a cup
to make me feel
quite full of beans
only one requirement tho'
no decaf if you please
and altho' born in Kenya
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Categories:
get up and go, drink, humorous, word play,
Form: Rhyme
Breath
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The last whispery remains
of a dream fray into forgetfulness.
I get up and go downstairs
to quietly sit in a chair
beside the window and stare
into the outside dark. A few stars
hang suspend...
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Categories:
get up and go, dark, joy, morning,
Form: Free verse
Secret Life
...What a joke, to live in the foreign land
Can’t go from here, and I can’t stay
Still I can enjoy to a great extent
Little wonders of this beautiful day
Beneath the lilac trees in full bloom
I si...
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Categories:
get up and go, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Go harder
...Hard work pays off
Hard work is making a decision
It’s making a decision to give 100%
No matter what’s going on or how you feel
Life comes with hurdles but what persons life doesn’t come with th...
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Categories:
get up and go, deep,
Form: Free verse
No desire
...I don’t know if I’m healed or traumatized
I can’t tell you how much I don’t care anymore
I don’t have the energy to leave long paragraphs anymore
I guess something in me just switched
I guess ...
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Categories:
get up and go, change,
Form: Free verse
Go Out In Droves
...I see you standing there acting as if you don’t care, you have been listening to a lot of argument about the city and the gate, the time has come when you have to make a choice so let your conscious...
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Categories:
get up and go, america, appreciation, business, career,
Form: Narrative
Cubist Composition
...It’s all been decided for me
I was told to get up and go
To reap the harvests for free
Which I had no idea to sow
In a competition of fictions
The most plausible won
I bargained three new convi...
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Categories:
get up and go, appreciation, art, culture, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Mirror House
...I look around the mirrored house trying to find myself, with each daggered corner of glass and sun reflection bouncing off. I slide my fingers across the placement of my face , who is that? I continu...
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Categories:
get up and go, anger, cry, deep, god,
Form: Bio
I prefer being me!
...My get up and go
Got up and went,
I’m repenting my sins
For wasted days I have spent.
It’s ok for me to not show up
Though I hate letting people down,
Would you rather I ‘had a face on’
Or lau...
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Categories:
get up and go, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Get up And Go
...Return to your normal schedule and meet me at the square, return to your normal schedule and open the mail before it is too late, this too will pass and the silence will not last, hurricane Beryl has...
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Categories:
get up and go, absence, america, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Narrative
The magic of nature
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THE MAGIC OF NATURE
The sun shining so brightly,
Making your skin glow.
Even the silver sprinkle of frost sparkling,
A beautiful covering of snow.
Sounds of the morning songbird,
It's so wo...
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Categories:
get up and go, appreciation, happiness, nature,
Form: Rhyme
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