How We Can Learn To Love
When you see others hurting and your heart doesn’t cry,
Look inside and ask yourself the answer to your why?
The path we’re given here on Earth is so we can learn.
To begin the learning process, we must feel concern.
For each to evolve while on this Earth, each must transform.
Right choices made along the way seldom cause
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Categories:
giving in, feelings, giving, introspection, life,
Form: Rhyme
I ask the field
before I pour rain
I ask the field if it thirsts—
sometimes it just smiles,
content in its cloud shadow,
roots drinking from deeper springs.
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Categories:
giving in, giving, inspirational,
Form: Tanka
If I were a poem
If I were a poem
metaphoric words would dance in
synchronicity,
similes would waltz the frown
from off my face.
If I were a poem
I'd wrap sonnets around you,
Like tourniquet stanzas
healing chapters in verse.
If I were a poem
cliches would clash with
unwritten rules,
words would not rhyme and dear diary would not exist.
If I were a poem
gone would be the
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Categories:
giving in, hope,
Form: Rhyme
Being
Being more open to others’ ideas
Being helpful when I encounter the helpless
Being loving when I see those that seem unlovable
Being slow to anger when I feel I’m being attacked
Being understanding when others make mistakes
Being non-judgmental when people are different from me
Being thankful for all that comes into my life
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Categories:
giving in, giving, i am, life,
Form: Pleiades
What Shall We Do
Let each of us, from our heart,
do what we are led to do.
If the intent is for the good of ourselves,
others, or all of humanity,
it will be a good thing that each of us will do.
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Categories:
giving in, giving, heart, inspiration, people,
Form: Free verse
Siraj in charge of the new Raj
Dash of panache …blade cascades on the lash..rocking …fans cavalcade flocking to be clocking some shocking..peacocking....with a hefty splash of flash fancy dan elan
No mocking.. knocking or blocking my pick as the talisman taking charge, unctuous rambunctious argy bargy barrage of Siraj
Spick and span does give a damn masterplan..an if anyone can I can…wiry fiery
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Categories:
giving in, sports,
Form: Free verse
First Class Love
As I awoke, eyes still laden,
dreaming of a pretty maiden.
Laying quietly, still in my bed.
It was real not just in my head.
As the light streaked through the window,
heart beating like a crescendo.
I felt the joy of love at last,
in this love, I’ll willingly bask.
The sharing, caring, and daring.
The glancing and trance like starring.
The thought came
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Categories:
giving in, dream, giving, joy, love,
Form: Sonnet
Love
Looking for love may not succeed
Learning to love may help indeed
Letting love flow, may be the seed
Lift another by doing a loving deed
Love others first, take the lead
Lady or gent, please do not plead
Lasting love is drawn to a need
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Categories:
giving in, blessing, care, caregiving, giving,
Form: Pleiades
Writing Poetry
Poems may be simple, try writing a rhyme,
add some images to make it sublime.
Simple words may make meaningful phrases,
difficult words can turn into mazes.
You could write a Limerick, just for fun,
don’t forget a surprise before you’re done.
Write a nice Haiku, a scene of nature,
like flowing mountain streams with water pure.
A Sonnet would be nice
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Categories:
giving in, creation, giving, perspective, poems,
Form: Sonnet
Our Legacy
As obvious as it may seem,
Our higher life we must redeem.
To get full value, its true worth,
It’s not a given at one’s birth.
First acknowledged, then understood,
Overcome ego, become good.
Use your energy to create,
Our deeper thoughts our true estate.
To share the truth that we have gleamed,
Our higher self must be redeemed.
Legacy: our thoughts repeated.
Shows our life
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Categories:
giving in, giving, history, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Gifts We're Given By God
We’re given a heart to love with
We’re given a mind to think with
We’re given a Creator to humble us
We’re given experiences for blessings and lessons in life
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Categories:
giving in, blessing, creation, giving, god,
Form: Free verse
Filtered Through Consciousness
like steaming water seeps through the openings in the bottom of a colander
the wisdom of ages past is filtered by my conscious mind
leaving all but a few bits and pieces caught in the process
I am ashamed to only share the remnants of the astounding truth that came to me
giving only the morsels that manage to
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Categories:
giving in, creation, giving, god, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Ode aan een avondmaaltijd
voor CINDY ANSONG
Je eten is heerlijk
de pittigheid en hartige toevoeging
naar de schemering is een aangrijpende kreet
een gesloten lengte.
Als de nek van een giraf uit de wolken
die volledig tevreden is
Ik slaakte een geschrokken kreet
met een DANKJEWEL.
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Categories:
giving in, anger, appreciation, art, culture,
Form: Ode
Creative Communication
We poets, writers, misfits of the world
like artist or mystics or troubadours
use our gifts to give insight to others
we offer more pulling back the covers.
We did not fit in with most of our peers.
When young we were often taunted to tears.
We often were quiet in our own zone.
And most of the time you’d find
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Categories:
giving in, art, community, creation, giving,
Form: Sonnet
The Cycle of Nature - Paying It Forward and Back
A tree needs sun, water and soil
gives back its fruit...
and its shade
on a hot, sultry day
A bee needs
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Categories:
giving in, giving, humanity, insect, nature,
Form: Free verse
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