Courage Life Poems

Growing Up

We never had Disney junk, 
We never had phones, attached to our hands.
We never thought much of bullies, 
as there was often if not...

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Stolen Life

The years of innocence 
were short. 
You were not the mother, 
You should have been. 
Yet, I forgive you. 

Things were worse, 
as the...

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POEM " UNDER MY SKIN " by martin gedge

I can feel you breathing deep beneath my skin
tugging at the fabric of the shell that keeps...

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No dulcet it was
cries of peace amidst gunfire
shells and smoke lingered....

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Was living just fine
doing the most.
Got caught at my crime,
now I'm doing jost.
I'm back to the cell ,
& alone in my thoughts.
No way to make...

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Bread of Life

His name is known all over the world. 
Some cheer, some do not. 
All will bow in the end. 
It is written. 
It...

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Now, you’re too far gone.
It’s no use pretending what you’ve done.
I too now, am too far gone.

There are no bridges left to burn, it’s best...

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I’m dying, I’m dying,
the old man was lying.
He said I’d live, but I didn’t give
him enough time to prove it.
   To be civilized...

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A Bug’s Life

I hate bugs that annoy me. 
You know the ones. 
The hit and run, touch and go… hahaha.

At the picnic it is the...

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Reading Life

In my life, I have seen
lonely people, empty dreams.
Pockets full of nothing
except for an old tontine.
Oh life may be a useless cause,
For it has...

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POEM " ANCIENT HEART " by martin gedge

Tears will fall from aging eyes to drop into the sea
and turn to stone from the depths of...

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The Rose
Hidden beneath a circle of tangled weeds
Bruised, hurt and torn and made to bleed
Lies a bud, so young, so true and full of life
Buried...

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There is a cold and aimless fear
that grips our longing and aim—
like the talons of a hankered fowl,
readying itself to the plunge
of some inevitable sorrow…...

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Me and life
Am lucky am still alive
What more can I ask for 
After life has beaten me
Blue and black
I can't be darker than i am...

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Here, Kitty! Come...
Outdoors all is pandemonium!
Lashing wind and driving rain--
You're too young to be slain!

Does she cling wetly to a rock?
Can she survive this shock?
Tiny...

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The maddening click of key strokes
The shrilling of the phones
The crunch of crumbling paper balls
Slices to the bone
The dull humming of the copier
Four million paper...

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swimming in this river
not knowing what way to go
feeling myself sinking
and cannot stay afloat,

feel myself going under
of the world i do not know
this river is...

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Every living thing.. Every breathing one..
Changes in life even for once…Some for good and some for bad..
Some where someone will always change..
Are you feeling betrayed...

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Monday came and went
Sorrow borne and grew
Money earned and spent
Trouble old and new

Tuesday grinds the querne
A practise, a run through
Admin'stered till it burns
Blood red til...

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My favorite teacher was my father

He taught me love when
He played with me and held me
Came home exhausted with bloody fingers
After a sixteen hour work...

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