Relationship Growth Poems

Origins Of Over Nurturing 

My need to protect others began during my turbulent adolescence. It started out as the need to protect others from me....

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Doe In My Yard

I glimpsed out my bedroom window looking for nature's signs giving me clues about what today will bring.

A lone doe was nibbling...

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Apologies



If I say I'm sorry

I will get my way

Your thinking to sway



Apology to look good

Narcissism under the hood

For me everyone will root



Apology to provoke guilt

Creates...

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mirror, mirror on the wall
are you just another contest
talk to me, is my call
help me in my life's quest

where is my destiny
“it is within
but also...

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The subtle thread which mends a laceration
is woven through fresh, tender flesh to bind
disreconciled horizons, disentwined
by words sharper than the knives of damnation.

Then, even once...

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“FOCUS INSIDE OF YOU"
(by Michelle L. LeBlanc 04/08/2025)


Not everyone is meant for you
It's ok. Breathe in. Let go
What is meant to be, will be
So just...

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In my life, all pain has been like appendicitis. 

I decided to avoid Dad when newborn and crib laid; I'd heard 
his authoritative voice as...

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Why can't you just help me 
In my time of need
You would always go to her
And give her a hand

Many A time
I cried much too...

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Sometimes I lose sense of myself,
my own divination of gifted being
a trivial spark in the vastness of God -- 

God the Everything:

ethereal body-corridor of
time and...

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Time passes on and quickly all is changed.
Spirits are different, yet youthful, yet old.
A world once warmed with love’s illusion’s cold.
Keepsakes bring back the memories,...

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Have I ever mentioned that I once was a ballerina?
I used to dance like water.
Nothing used to bother my movements.
My stride, my step, my every...

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“Oh please don’t worry.
I haven’t a heightened sixth sense… about the mint infused lilt here.”
There must be a compass without a point surrounding me
“Looking for...

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Across the aisle, a chasm loomed,
Reagan smiled, O’Neill boomed.
The Gipper’s charm, the Speaker’s grit—
Two titans clashed but never quit.

Ideals at war—left against right,
Taxes and spending,...

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I see the beauty that you cannot see.
The perfection I notice embraces your flaws.
Emphasizes the character behind your eyes,
encased inside the four walls of your...

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I've gotten better 

Or so I thought

Cuz suddenly the words

I'm not okay 

And

I want to die

Left my mouth

Which is weird

Because I thought I was better 

But that's not...

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