Great Poems - Poems about Great

GATSBY* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gatsby’s my name, character of Fitzgerald fame. Nick saw through the façade and my game. I partied and danced through the night, Chasing dreams that weren’t quite right. Then there was Daisy, jazz’s grande dame. I lived in a mansion that sparkled at night, I threw bashes hoping to be Daisy’s...

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I surpassed father though the path was treacherous and filled with mirrors ...

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The days crack like porcelain under the heel of my wanting. I am a spine of restless birds, feathers slick with salt and early light— my mouth tasting the metal of doors I have not opened. They ask me why. Why walk without a destination? Why carry a compass if you don’t believe in north? I tell them— the road does not need an ending to be...

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I swung a magazine in a speeding blaze, and killed five houseflies in three days. My statistics are good, and for my money, I'm better than Shohei Ohtunny....

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You ask me how to become great? Allow me a moment to extrapolate. Eliminate the things in your life that are fake. What remains, your authentic self, Will guide you to be yourself, Which will reveal that you are great. ...

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There was a player on our team named Rick He hit third and was really a great stick When on base, he made a strange face He thought he could steal any base Another out, he was slow as a brick ...

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When in the presence of great art I feel pathetically diminished whereas I hoped it might impart some little power of its greatness into my ever diminishing existence, so that I walk away quite famished – or worse, vanquished! ...

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children dying in the global south we cannot drink oil and gas coral reefs are dying in the ocean we cannot eat coal and live species are facing extinction he keeps filling his vaults while children starve from hunger and diseases spreading like wildfire this poet finds it preposterous why should i be afraid of the one in wrong? to say out loud their...

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As we await our first great-granddaughter… speaking now as a great-grandmother and great-granddad we are grateful to see opening up another section of our heart… we never knew we had....

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July 25 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Ecclesiastes 5-8 Key Verse – Ecclesiastes 5:19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this is the gift of God. FAITH IN...

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Everything this person say, think and do revolves around money. There was a saying that “Money is the root of all evil.” I beg to differ. Money is not the root, the love of money is. The need and greed to be that obsessed displays someone who is possessed. The need to control it all, to want...

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"Great Is Thy Faithfulness" Scripture: Lamentations 3:22-23 Lyrics: Thomas Obediah Chisholm (1866-1960) Music: William Marion Runyan (1870-1957) Copyright status is Public Domain Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father; There is no shadow of turning with Thee; Thou changest not, Thy compassions, they fail not; As Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be. Refrain: Great is Thy faithfulness! ...

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The King of Greece went on a blind date The lady thought he wasn’t so great So, he went back to his horse ...

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Gavotte Minuet: Most of the night we shared several moments together most of the night she and I together the night doesn't end until the morning comes you know where I'm coming from we danced to the wrong song Sappy Sweet love infused passon'd styled with modern tones with an Ole style fashion had us groovin around acting like lovers we discovered what we discovered there was times when I was in doubt I withdrew...

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some posters are sweet when they are silent cos they do not open their .... ...

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