Life Iambic Pentameter Poems

I am so blessed to have great-grandchildren.
Four generations now upon our tree;
three girls- age four, one and a half, nine weeks.
How fortunate to have them...

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Is wished-for peace on Earth our Xanadu?
A golden dream, mirage- our sky of blue?
An aspiration, wishful thinking to
allow us to envision this as true?

If only...

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Nocturnal hours are shorter than before
since the position of our sun, on queue,
now lets each day last longer to grant more
good time for other things...

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There is a time in life we might regret
in missing opportunities to learn
that which we thought somehow could be offset
since living current days was our...

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Faith is the assurance of things hoped for,
And is the evidence of things not seen. (1)
It’s the trust that God exists and is more,
Then anything...

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Endless- difficult to understand
when everything around us has an end.
All life on earth is destined to disband
with time and age- on that, we can depend.

We...

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"Autumn leaves don’t fall; they fly. 
They take their time and wander on this 
their only chance to soar.”
      ...

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So many things we know were proven true;
the Earth is round, not flat, as thought before.
We share what other planets all go through;
rotate around a...

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Life is graciously fair to all by birth
To live up to chances, know your true worth 
...

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Thou mighty annelid, thou Shai-Halud
of Dune, but on a vastly smaller scale!
The spice that thou produce, that marvelous
sweet tea, grows gardens hardy, hale indeed.
And woe...

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A tale told by an idiot? Methinks
thou dost protest too much. In brevity,
the soul of wit, yet I shall be a fool,
for there are scarce...

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Written by Gail R DeBole
on April 4, 2022
Updated on December 29, 2022

...Free Verse................
Unless you turn it into Iambic Pentameter.

...a swirling kaleidoscope of colors...........
Unless you only...

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I often think about Earth's oceans- deep
and taking up three-quarters of its size.
Our continents are islands in the sweep
of water worlds- alive beneath our skies.

Great...

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Just yesterday, a special day it was-
    fifteen September, twenty-twenty-one;
        like every year, my tears...

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Letting go of you
Something you did so easily
Something I never thought I could do
Now I see you living life peacefully
It makes me wonder if you...

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