Kindness is the way
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in a world of bitterness and hate
look for the signs of compassion
and make those your guideposts...
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Categories:
guideposts, appreciation, inspirational, uplifting,
Form: Free verse
Ode to a True Poet - Apr 6
...O’ Pat Pattison, you, my brilliant teacher,
I would shower in praises, had you not
taught me better! for cliches void of thought
are as worthwhile as a couch surfin’ moocher!
O’ masterful and d...
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Categories:
guideposts, appreciation, creation, love, poetry,
Form: Italian Sonnet
WHEN I DREAM
...I wander a vast desert
Emotions chasing like shadows
No sand, no cactus in sight
Only rivers climbing uphill.
I run, drawn by distant guideposts
Haunted by familiar voices, yet strange
Their...
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Categories:
guideposts, 12th grade, allusion,
Form: Free verse
Lock Step
...Will is the executive …
intellect advisor
Choice as a marriage
the two must condone
Committed and daunting
with guideposts of knowledge
Marching in tandem
— pursuing the truth
(Dreamsle...
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Categories:
guideposts, memory,
Form: Free verse
Navigating Through Life
...Your journey
though life begins
with your
very first breath.
Exploring your world
hand to mouth,
you test
boundaries.
...
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Categories:
guideposts, encouraging, feelings, how i
Form: Verse
Parameters
...Life . . . and of course, living it, requires
Some freedom with few constraints.
As energy is bound by time and space,
Along with the will of many saints.
From the macro to the micro, t...
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Categories:
guideposts, humanity, journey,
Form: Rhyme
Lampstands
...We in are in a time of darkness,
A season of sorrow and regret.
Like a great fish caught in a current
Rife with unexpected, opposing tides.
All are tossed ever farther
from lives all hoped to ...
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Categories:
guideposts, 12th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Reflection On Georgehenge
...Acknowledging God as the omnipotent Creator
I believe that all components, elements, and substances
both of the Stonehenge and Georgia Guideposts
originated from the Almighty Source
Who...
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Categories:
guideposts, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Rejection Selection
...If I have to receive rejections, you would think I could at least get the kind of rejection slips that I would like to get. Here are a few rejections that I haven't received. Yet.
"Unpalat...
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Categories:
guideposts, humor,
Form: List
Love Shines
...Love Shines
Love shines in unclaimed shadows
Of tarnished souls like polished platinum,
Like burnished bronze in solid darkness –
A golden lantern of serene solitude –
With luster of the etern...
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Categories:
guideposts, light, love,
Form: Free verse
The Elders
...Stories - faces aglow,
the "old ones" sharing
life's lessons.
Tales of the past,
guideposts in life,
before we all knew more
than those who came before
"our perfection"....
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Categories:
guideposts, life,
Form: Free verse
With a Tremulous Sigh
...The lad looked up at the sky with a tremulous sigh
Why is man born and why must he die?
He gazed at the stars, dazzling guideposts of night
With arms outstretched toward their flickering l...
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Categories:
guideposts, humanity, sea, sky, stars,
Form: Rhyme
You Made Me Do It
...Watch me try and live a commital life of social norms, mores, manners, domestication, that tired ritual of boring sexual for the times at hande, which are still at least 30 yrs B e h i n d, if u kn...
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Categories:
guideposts, child, education, fear, lust,
Form: Free verse
Starry Sonnet
...As guideposts in the sky to light the way
the heavens’ stars assist our human sight.
Big Dipper asterism holds its sway
in northern Ursa Major shining bright.
When sets the evening sun on earthly...
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Categories:
guideposts, beauty, earth, life, light,
Form: Sonnet
They Stood - We Stood -Together
...They say “You are only as strong
as the person standing beside you.”
There have been times when that thought…
frightened me, for the person standing
beside me……..was……..well……
let’s just say…....
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Categories:
guideposts, friendship, humor, life, mentor,
Form: Free verse
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