Long Blessing in disguise Poems

I awoke to the familiar sound of dishes rattling in Mother’s kitchen and to the thick scent of coffee wafting through the air. I glanced out my bedroom window; the neighborhood was lit by the...

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I reach out for my happy pill
To make the raging pain be still
My day with pseudo cheer to fill
To live, I need to find the will

And so I gulp a higher dose
To try to get...

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Dr.V Krishnan you have a great way with kids 
Combined with excellent knowledge and skills 
You are an amazing Neonatologist and Pediatrician 
Where all kids would love to run to you when they are sick....

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I pray for your soul not to be damned all because I know the path that you’re on, and I want so much to reach out to you and bring you back to where you...

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I should have walked away... on our wedding day
Instead of going on parade: our foolish wedding charade
How everyone looked happy, little knowing how crappy
That day was for me, but no-one could see 
That when we...

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She was having a certain level of difficulty discerning the exact moment it had started. She knew it started somewhere…everything else did. Maybe it had been during the summer that she could not smile. Not...

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ove of my life
a new friend for just a day
26th was the date
cudnt miss that In my diary.
the day it all began
something that felt so ordinary,
led to feelings hard to deny.
i wanted to see him...

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My little girl was her Daddy's Angel
But never less than her Mommy's treasure! 
A true blessing in disguise with no wings
Naughty, yet beautiful beyond description 
Was waiting to see her grow to be wonderful just...

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Salvation has arrived, it happened with one look
surprising it was, that's all it took
The fear I had, gone, he stole my heart
A son, a new beginning, a fresh start
The uncertainty washed away with just one...

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I could not forget the day I left my old hometown of Saint Louis (San Luis, Baguio City). Every eye was staring at me like I stole their vital organs. My brother and mother were...

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just in case you didn't know,probably because you are an alien in your very world
you owe your altitude to millions down here,who endured the chilly winter to sky-rocket  you to the blue skies
an inflated...

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as a cild it hat often been the box that mattered
          
          it gave shelter and comfort...

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"A Blessing In Disguise"

Sometimes life shuts you down
Scatters all your dreams & makes you bound...
This time I was all about to quit
Everything was vanished & badly hit...
I thought how will my family & I'll survive
We...

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(My ode to Earthquake is an irregular ode. The ode is written in
memory of an earthquake that took place in Gujarat State (Kutch Region) 
of India in the year 2000 on the Republic Day of...

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I see him stumbling around looking for something to hold on to but there was nothing there except the open thin air and a bunch of bureaucrats wearing thin frocks walking around on wet grass...

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life has it's ups and downs
it's highs and lows
with it comes a lot of crap
but what's most crappy?

Action speaks louder than words
now thats crap.
when you are in a mess 
and four men are set to...

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Times were hard – that is what they said
When they told me about their early years - 
before I was there, their son
Filled with the hunger of youth, the lust
For life, passion – the truth

Times...

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A Blessing In Disguise

Many years ago, I was asked to give the blessing at dinner.  As a guest, this was not something I was accustomed to and therefore declined, finding myself in a losing...

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The Voice…

On a dark night that was darker than my pain,
     nothing was there for me except to complain.
I hid myself in the emptiness of bed.
     Nothing...

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In the world  of all comforts,
In the world of absolute care and affection,
In the world of motherhood.
Ten months I was basking, in my mother's womb.
Happiness running down my spine – I thanked God,
His blessing...

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Holding hands with Shannon Leigh
Enthrallment consuming me
Trees flex their dusk filigree
Bobbing as if they agree
Pitch blank possibility

Revel in this day's decay
Bemused I should feel this way
Summer blooms share their bouquet
Nature's splendid verve soiree
As we bask...

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Beautiful

……Even then you were beautiful.
I watched you grow
An angel you were,
Love of people and adventure was your fortitude.
A quality many did not possess. 

I watched you grow older
Even more pretty you became,
An angel to be...

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In the abyss of a heavy silence, I feel like an anchor weighing down dreams,
And the world seems an atlas that no longer knows how to bend me towards heights.
I call tenderly for shadows that...

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Heavy steel balls chained to both her legs.
Dragging herself each day as though she has a wooden peg.
A rain cloud over her head, she sees only black and white
Belittled every day, she lost her strength...

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To anyone who is different... Remember the blessing in disguise. You are able to know much through your spiritual sight. 

I am different 
By Michelle Morris
27/06/2023

I am different
And that's okay
I am different
And that's just fine

I...

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