Somewhere
...I saw you there
sitting alone in a corner
while our classmates played.
The look in your eyes—
longing to belong
but fearing to fall.
We were seven then,
in all the chaos,
still finding our pl...
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Categories:
longing to belong, mystery, remember,
Form: Free verse
Searching
...Searching
Searching for a place
Where I belong
Where hope is alive
Where feelings of disappointment fade away to no longer reachable distances
The longing of belonging is in the mirror
Faith f...
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Categories:
longing to belong, dream, feelings, how i
Form: Free verse
For My Children
...For My Children
- Daniel Henry Rodgers
As dawn's first blush ignites the eastern sky—a cool
Caress of dew upon the breeze—and the birds' serenad...
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Categories:
longing to belong, loneliness, longing, native american,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Snowman
...A snowman
Watches from his globe
Eager to please, you
Longing to belong
Fearful of blending
into your background
Waiting
He watches
You come and go
In your great big world
It’s indulgen...
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Categories:
longing to belong, absence, deep, longing, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Texas Orange Horizon
...I’ve been told of the lovely biblical times of old
I learned my lessons of being cheery and bold
Once again, I want you to set my spirits free
I don’t want you to let go of me, let go of me
In ...
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Categories:
longing to belong, hope, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
In My Soul
...Without a creepy doubt,
I’ll be going that narrow, non-weepy route
Going with the flow of my own flow
Of my own soul as a whole, as a whole
There’s a masquerade party in my soul
Hmm ohhh
The...
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Categories:
longing to belong, change, courage, deep,
Form: Lyric
My Presence
...Been through struggles as of recently
Been blue, need snuggles on a daily
My presence is forever a lost paradise
My deliverance of sins of the past is right before my eyes
The desert of lies, d...
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Categories:
longing to belong, angst, emotions, loneliness,
Form: Lyric
Jovial
...Inspired by Shawn Mendes’ songs: Stitches and Never Be Alone
Am I feeling jovial
Or am I in denial?
All along, you were lost and found
One day, we’ll be safe and sound
I saw what was missing i...
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Categories:
longing to belong, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
What Is Missing
...
I am feeling emotions cast down
Hovering about my head
Enveloping me
With the longing to belong
To be with people who have similar vows of
Passion
Someone to talk with in sh...
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Categories:
longing to belong, longing,
Form: Free verse
Perplexing Bipolar Phases
...I am so mellow and quiet…
As calm as a midnight jet…
I need some sort of outlet…
Give me something more than this...regret
I did not mean to get upset...
I just wanted you to be feeling alrigh...
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Categories:
longing to belong, emotions, loneliness, longing,
Form: Lyric
2019, Black History Month
...Born, slave or free, nobody's property; a "P"(purpose) and a "D'(destiny) are stamped within. Letters they are, but so much more and nevermore to be set aside nor ever erased in me. A human tragedy t...
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Categories:
longing to belong, america, christian, corruption, evil,
Form: Prose Poetry
Cardinal Love
...I host many song birds,
but never enough.
I steal them from neighbors
with lavish tax-relief offers,
free food
and housing
in exchange for their relocation
and entertainment.
I love them ...
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Categories:
longing to belong, bird, earth, gospel, health,
Form: Free verse
Outcast
...When one feels like an Outcast, one can over compensate
In ways that are extreme to try and change their fate.
This can make them do things others cannot relate to,
If they know not of such pain o...
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Categories:
longing to belong, encouraging, inspirational, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Sexier Infrastructures
...Infrastructure.
Such a cold ugly word
like a patriarchal weapon,
a technology
substituting for a warm organic nurturing network
flowing through a great river
of eye-to-eye revolving time.
Po...
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Categories:
longing to belong, caregiving, culture, earth, endurance,
Form: Political Verse
Dear Republicans For God and Country
...Thanks for your letter
asking for a free Taoist consult
on how to bring God talk
and experience
back into our Big Agri-MilitantIndustrialized Busyness Schools
and possibly our extended family li...
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Categories:
longing to belong, caregiving, education, happiness, health,
Form: Political Verse
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