Listener Poems - Poems about Listener

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It’s not always the big things that The sweet love of my life Says has done or does that makes me love her And remain devoted faithful and true But rather the little things she doesn’t say or do As best friends and lovers She accepts as I am The warts and faults of an imperfect man That I...

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I fell into her empathetic eyes wanting to tell her my life story a story I rarely tell she is a willing listener an anomaly a rare gem...

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August 22 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Joel 1-3 Key Verse – Joel 1:14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD. LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY CRY LISTENER Lord God, You are...

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August 18 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Daniel 9-12 Key Verse – Daniel 9:17 Now therefore, O our God, hear the prayer of thy servant, and his supplications, and cause thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake. LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY SUPPLICATION LISTENER Lord God, You are my...

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...a phone visit with old friend: Listen did I as he filled me in on all the current doings of his life. Then, as a pause slid-slid-slipped into his monologue, I said, I have to move away. Blink. Blink. And his narration continued, ...you know, I thought ...

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May 2 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Nehemiah 1-4 Key Verse – Nehemiah 1:11 O Lord, I beseech thee, let now thine ear be attentive to the prayer of thy servant, and to the prayer of thy servants, who desire to fear thy name: and prosper, I pray thee, thy servant this day, and...

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I'm a flawed fixer listener I hear then fix and fawn I'm zipping my mouth shut Agony aunting switching off I can hear and see you (Not right now I'm not a stalker) But let me help you too If you ever need to be the talker...

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While you are busy praising me And repeating sincere "I see!" You keep staggering my story, Less preparing for The Gory A narrative oddly halting Not better than the facts faulting... Your job, now, A Good listener's Just eyes on my lips Fasteners; Glimpse I shall your struggling suspense And it's s promise: my response; Off and on make my hearer pause, As though...

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Parents could contact Director Or him skip for The Inspector, A Child Deviant for Hot Iron, His strokes like African lion... Assignment once in a long while; Things that simply promote his style But how does he go that much length: An Asthmatic won’t dare for strength? With his rebuffs of inhaler That could increase his wahala? Long speeches he rates as Teaching, A settling for...

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I am a listener My eyes say “tell me” And people do Waitresses ask me to scoot over I have never seen them before They tell me their life story Strangers and I converse in grocery stores, on airplanes, at funerals and weddings I listen with my heart And I do not offer advice I merely listen It is enough I often hug a new “person’...

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Leftie I was and leftie I be. I never watch stupidity on reality TV Except Married at First Sight Which gives me delight I am a hippie, a gypsy, a faerie, I flee…. From those who have absolute ideas, for they frighten me. My ideas are flexible, I am a listener, and a jumper. I jump from this to that easily, Fearful of...

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Hostility and anger was zooming around the room when she arrived. She sat in a corner, writing poetry, creating a pretty world of her own. The hostess came by to take a peek, and ended up with a smile. She patted her shoulder and said “I am so glad that you came!” The angriest fellow in the room with...

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She never pauses for a breath. I listen and listen and listen. But at one point I feel strongly that it is my turn to talk. So, I throw in a story. She interrupts me several times, then she returns to her last thought. I wait but this time not as patiently. There is a break. I dash in, telling her...

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