Sonnet Growth Poems

Something's missing in the puzzle of life.
I'm living without something, I just know.
I must tell you, my confusion is rife.
I'm stumped.  I've hunted high....

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What will become of doubt within?
Will it become a loss or win?
How does it grow or diminish?
How will it look at the finish?

Your thoughts may...

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I was the scattered embers of what was,
a mirage of something that couldn't be.
And it bore a hole inside me, for twas -
it not for...

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To always depend on the status quo,
doing it the same way we’ll seldom grow.
Without any change, progress will be slow.
The experience of growth we’ll not...

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Risk has value as an invitation 
to break through our existing stagnation.
Have we given up our precious freedom 
and invited in, a life of boredom.

Could...

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a kyrielle sonnet

Lord, warm folks’ hearts as cloth we sew
garments of faith where trust will show. 
Pure mercy, help Christians display
Your love and grace 'twill...

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Upon life's stage where shadows weave their play,
A fleeting waltz where mortals find their way.
In heedless youth, with innocence bedight,
The heart's true freedom, by time,...

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Why do I think that I need to know why?
Will the answer justify what I do?
Just thinking about it brings on a sigh.
Thoughts in my...

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If innocence is as observed by me,
A carefree behavior is all we see.
In Its presence we know not, right from wrong,
And we will soon learn,...

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Yes, Growing A Fine Ole Southern Garden

In the garden strawberries are dancing about so red
Momma's cantaloupes laying there just waiting to be ate
Over there luscious...

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Come one,come two,come all free spirits,
'O' raging,'O' waging,'O' untamed free spirits,
Depressed,courageous,tamed free spirits,
Breathing,breathless,prideful free spirits,

Come three,come four,come all free spirits,
Locked hearts,Locked minds,come forward free spirits,
Come...

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I Wear My Gun Easily, Loaded Well At Night

I meet my sacrifice with ample gratitude
Although with muted tongue, my ghost sings loudly
That crystal indifference soothes...

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In The Refreshing Springtime, When The Breeze Was Cool


I used to go by the lake, sit on the old fallen oak
In the refreshing Springtime, when...

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Crooked Tree, there’s so much of you to me.
I whisper to the wind my confession.
This heart of mine is quite GRIM and GLOOMY.
Of FEELINGS; not...

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My bears' beard came in when I turned eighteen.
I dipped my audacity in manhood
and it spit me out like sugarless tea.
The trenches near sent me...

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