I REALLY HATE YOU!Cancer
I loathe and detest you
If I'm honest, I really HATE you
I despise the way
You keep popping up to irritate us
like a smirking floating turd
Which we’d love to flush away forever
Attempts were made to eradicate you
Skilled surgeons tried to cut you out
But you were like a ‘cling on’ in the toilet of life
And you wouldn’t...
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Categories:
life, health, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Life Is But A Trick
Who knows how
Net turns ten
Now own to won
Off arm to mar
The sunshine of four
That rise to grow
Their sheep fur
Just like ours
As long as bride's gown
Unlike a fairy tale bird
Whose ribs are light
Off bid to plead the sky
To help pin its way up
Without its mother's tips
Not to get nip by the wind
Unto the back...
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Categories:
life, art, dedication, growth, strength,
Form: Free verse
How sharp those failings cry
I look upon the world today as I have done all my life.
A laugh, a smile, worry or ok, it needs to be met head-on for all its strife.
Some days I’ll wake and feel the sun recharging my fading smile.
Some days I’ll wake and no matter how bright the sky sorrow will darken my mind.
I’ll...
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Categories:
life, absence, abuse, age, cry,
Form: Free verse
I want to spend my life with youI want to spend my life with you,
Through times of red, of green and blue.
For the sunset dance, and midnight walks,
For never ending and the deepest talks.
Red days for adventure, a passion for life,
To dance forever, into the sun filled night.
Seeing the sun, rise from your eyes,
To light up horizons, of pastel skies.
Green for peace,...
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Categories:
life, appreciation, i love you,
Form: Rhyme
TidepoolsBorn into the soothe of tidepools
hardly a ripple hardly a care
infinity in the shallow so near
but there are no treasures here
only the seduction of security.
on the horizon you see shinning things
maps to treasures that we're born to seek
knee deep we frolic about
then slide into the thick blue
where thrashers abound
There it lies like a sleepy silver...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Rhyme
After The Psalm of LifeAfter The Psalm of Life,
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
One need not continue seeking,
For that elusive, immortal dream.
Our bodies aging, joints creaking,
Yet we each have, before unseen...
A body that's made of spirit,
That breaks forth when this flesh dies!
And the grave, we need not fear it;
Yes, death will come...
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Categories:
life, courage, hope, inspiration,
Form: Quatrain
Married LifeIn the beginning, he was a dream,
A perfect blend, or so it seemed.
With every wish, he’d swoop and save,
A knight in shining armor, oh so brave.
“Where have you been?” I’d sigh and swoon,
As he’d conjure up my heart’s cartoon.
A band-aid for a paper...
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Categories:
life, family, grief, husband, love
Form: Rhyme
Deep Down
When I see the darkness, I see the Qliphoth,
Each shadow mirrors the fire I’ve crossed.
A soul forged where mercy is lost—
I rise from Hell with no fear of cost.
They say I walk with devils and flame,
That I’ve chosen a path of whispers and shame. ...
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Categories:
life, care, confidence, dark, deep,
Form: Rhyme
Jaun Elia English Translations IIThese are English translations of Urdu poems by Jaun Elia with themes of solitude, loneliness, alienation, love, life, death and loss.
When you come, you will find me lost,
for in my solitude there are dreams, nothing else.
You desire to decorate my room,
but in my room there are books, nothing else.
These tyrannical books have done me a...
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Categories:
dream, life, loneliness, loss,
Form: Free verse
Zen modesince this is what we signed up for
life tests us again and again
looked at by us with nonchalance
vibrant in joy and stoic in pain
recognising life as a dream
wherein we are somewhat awake
all that matters is God’s bliss beat
making presence calm like a lake...
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Categories:
dream, joy, life, pain,
Form: Quatrain
What Makes me SmileWhat makes me smile?—For one: the grin of life;
but, too, its touch of giggle grazing on
my ticklish skin,—Though soon again withdrawn,
yet long lingers in memory, full, rife.
This makes me smile—(the laughter of a leaf
fluttering through the airs of yawning dawn.
I think it now, though next I’ll find it gone,
but note the chimes of...
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Categories:
life, appreciation, beauty, celebration, emotions,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Life EndsRegret not lifes end,
for you will have been a star...
in your own movie!...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Haiku
Bring Us Back To LifeSomething inside tells me
That things are gonna change
The world is in great turmoil
I feel there's lots and lots of pain
The rich are getting richer
And the poor barely get by
Oh Jesus please come help us
Bring this world now back to life...
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Categories:
life, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
It's not so easy being a witch
Whew ~ I'm all tuckered out
from doing my day-to-day spellcasting business,
conjuring this and conjuring that,
bewitching this and bewitching that,
I hate to say it but I'm not
the young enchantress I used to be.
It's time for a break and have some brew ~
what I need next is to summon my charming warlock
to make me feel those long...
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Categories:
fun, life, longing, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Later ---I Like The
AWARENESS,
You Know,
That We've
Made Out
Of Man...
Oh, Yeah,
Me Too...
And, He
Thinks He
KNOWS
EVERYTHING!
Yeah Yeah!
All The Time!
Man-Kind!
Hee-Hee...
Horribly Funny!
Yeah, It Is
FUNNY,
Though.
-Gray Squirrel
06-23-2025
...
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Categories:
life,
Form: Free verse
Specific Types of Life Poems
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