Our Lives Are To Short
The clock gnaws marrow from the bone,
Its hands are wolves in a quiet room.
I pace the halls of books like a penitent,
Collecting alphabets, equations, broken hymns—
Each one a splinter of fire to brand my palms.
Learning is a lantern, I tell myself,
But it burns both the pupil and the page.
Still, I drink the poison of knowledge,
Measure
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Categories:
lives, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Too many lives
my body ache and feel so old my soul torn and winter's cold i've lived too many lives
they say, "teenage is the best years of life but carelessness can bring you demise" lost in the petty things of life i lost a precious chapter of my life
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Categories:
lives, 1st grade, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Too many lives
my body ache and feel so old my soul torn and winter's cold i've lived too many lives
they say, "teenage is the best years of life but carelessness can bring you demise" lost in the petty things of life i lost a precious chapter of my life
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Categories:
lives, 1st grade, emotions, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Lived too many Lives
my body ache and feel so old
my soul torn and winter's cold
i've lived too many lives
they say, "teenage is the best years of life
but carelessness can bring you demise"
lost in the petty things of life
i lost a precious chapter of my life
they say, "care for each other, care for the poor
but care even more about
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Categories:
lives, sad,
Form: Free verse
Good days are not lacking, but good lives are hard to find in the world
Good days are not lacking, but good lives are hard to find in the world,
A life of good days lived through the senses is not enough, it's just appearance,
The life of sensations is the life of greed, always demanding more, never ceasing,
But the life of the spirit asks for less and less, time is generous
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Categories:
lives, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
COMINGS AND GOINGS IN THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES
COMINGS AND GOINGS IN
THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES
In all life’s seasons,
Each day has its three
To be: yesterday, today,
And its tomorrow:-
Today was yesterday’s
Tomorrow, and will become
Tomorrow’s yesterday,
Which will become a today:-
No matter the day or
The season, give God the praise
For today, which was yesterday’s
Prayed for tomorrow:-
Thus, be the blessed days
That are bestowed upon us
In travelling
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Categories:
lives, allegory, analogy, day, life,
Form: Personification
SQUIRREL'S LIVES MATTER
SQUIRRELS' LIVES MATTER
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With tiny paws raised, scurry of squirrels took a stand,
"Dear gardener, how dare you! This is quite unplanned!
You’ve vacuumed up our nutty feast,
Our food supply substantially decreased.
Now we’re left with just crumbs in the strand!"
With their cheeks full of nuts, they declared,
"We demand that our
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Categories:
lives, 12th grade, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Our Lives
This is our lives: moment by sparking moment. We know not what will come next, nor do we know what is to follow. So, we accept the moment, and move on beyond it.
This flashing moment
Defines my existence
Like a fireflies' flash
In the depth of the darkness.
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Categories:
lives, imagery, power,
Form: Haibun
FAITH IN GOD WHO LIVES IN TRUTH
August 13 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Jeremiah 4-6
Key Verse – Jeremiah 4:2 And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves in him, and in him shall they glory.
FAITH IN GOD WHO LIVES IN TRUTH
God lives in truth and in His
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Categories:
lives, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
To the mother they stole
To my mama they stole,
I dont blame you for what was done
You sacrificed your life for my childhood
You fought for my right of innocence
You spoke so I could have freedom
It's not your fault
You were just born black
I'm not old enough to understand why
But i do understand your love
I feel it even in your absence
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Categories:
lives, child, mom, prejudice, prison,
Form: Free verse
Cries of Our Lives
Whispering sweet desires in tearing
giggling, we forget of we're laughing
tummy sweet button does taste so yummy,
How do these moments lead right up to now?
Tasting your lips, something ever lasting,
treats of your seduction to say the least,
fingers wander to love songs from singers
blasts from window won't shiver how heat lasts,
Lust come from sweetness and not the
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Categories:
lives, love, love hurts, lust,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
lives, cute love, friendship love,
Form: Haiku
The enslaved
The crops grows from the tears of the enslaved
The ground quakes from the harsh sound of the whip
Their calloused hands evidence of a life of painful labour
Wounds etched their skin
A twisted reminder of what happens when you don't comply
Their bones crushed under the weight of exhaustion
Their eyes burned by the harsh sun
Despite
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Categories:
lives, discrimination, freedom, identity, prejudice,
Form: Free verse
LOVE LIVES ON
When I lose someone I love…someone who was close to me
I try my best to follow the Native Nations’ wisdom and philosophy…
To stay with them a while
in those sweet places I call memories
To visit their smile often
To let their light warm and fill my heart
And always remember
Their love lives on through me
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Categories:
lives, death, love,
Form: Rhyme
FAITH IN GOD WHO SATISFIES OUR LIVES
July 19 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Proverbs 19-21
Key Verse – Proverbs 19:23 The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.
FAITH IN GOD WHO SATISFIES OUR LIVES
God satisfies our lives with His goodness
Always preserving us in His
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Categories:
lives, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
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