One good fall
Pride it is said goes before a fall
A fall may not be fatal
One good fall could be a blessing in disguise
For It could signal a new beginning
It could portend a second chance
It could also be a learning phase
When you skip and fall
As mortals sometimes do
Take stock of the pitfalls
Get right up
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Categories:
mortals, character, confidence, courage, earth
Form: Free verse
Memories fade
As Memories dim and fade
Past favours are forgotten
Ingratitude breeds envy and jealousy
And promises of love till death
Made under the heat of the moment
Fade and are forgotten
Emotions take flight under new guise
Beautiful memories of years past
Dim and diminish as cognitive health wanes
For Humans are just mere mortals
They have a beginning and a
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Categories:
mortals, body, change, character, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Due to Mortals
Green, gold, gray, old, from thence they pass away.
And from the dawn, the night is cast,
What's due to mortals falls at last.
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Categories:
mortals, age, day, death, destiny,
Form: Rhyme
Categories:
mortals, appreciation, irony,
Form: Free verse
ANGELS AND MORTALS
A thin line separates
These two creations divine;
One guided by grace
The other lost in time.
Mortals tread with weary hearts
Bound by earthly chains
While angels soar on wings
Above skies weeping with rain.
Both shrouded in mystery
Sharing a trace of history;
Mortals seek eternity
Angels guide them gently.
A delicate line divides
One follows a sacred plan
The
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Categories:
mortals, 12th grade, angel,
Form: Free verse
Three Sisters Who Hated Mortals
Medusa, Stheno and Euryale were threats to each other.
Their mother had to caution them to use their snakes wisely.
Typical sisters, there was much hissing, spitting and biting.
Their sitter had her hands full as their snakes were venomous.
Why did the gods give you snakes instead of hair? She lamented.
Gaze into my eyes! Medusa said to the
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Categories:
mortals, mythology,
Form: Prose Poetry
We the Mortals
We the Mortals
As glamorous as it might seem
this world actually is hollow inside;
Those beautiful smiling faces
sure have sadness embed in;
There being no absolute measure
of happiness and tranquility;
Both playing hide and seek
sometimes lost, at times found;
As those big houses and riches
fail to give that content ;
Which a poor man feats
in collapsible hatchet
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Categories:
mortals, earth, simple, world,
Form: Free verse
Mortals
Mortals
By Michelle Morris
31/03/2023
Here we mortals turn to stone
By our hardened hearts
And callous disregard
For each other and our planet
Let us embrace our humanity
And melt the hardness and tar
That holds us down and immobilised
That keeps us from freeing our souls
Imagine the light that burns deep within
It's inside you and ignites your soul
For you are starlight and
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Categories:
mortals, community, freedom, humanity, life,
Form: Free verse
What Lesser Mortals
What lesser mortals?
What lesser mortals
than Rimbaud
claim themselves
a poet within
another self,
for there is more
than just one self
depending on the
time and day
and nothing
is as it seems
at first,
we are born
from abstract
firmament to the
Infirmament
arriving
planned and unplanned
in the in-between
swaddled in skin,
a nude shade of blue
turning pink
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Categories:
mortals, imagery, muse, symbolism,
Form: Narrative
Chants of Mortals
Chants of Mortals
From the first cry out of the womb like a bay window
Life presents a combat zone
Though maternal and puny
The soul knew it was an eternal race
Tick-tack, tick-tack the race began
Moments in life unfolds like a lotus
Laying hold on the peduncle of hope
Each day breeds disquietude
From a child, to the springtime of life,
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Categories:
mortals, adventure, birth, courage, devotion,
Form: Free verse
Substandard
"One who meditates of death, has disguised his life as one.
One who meditated of death, in order to disguise, knows life."
- "Should I meditate of life then?"
You probably will be 'living death'
(P.s. explanation -
A layman who thinks of nothing but death, and has the essence of it to his very depths, has, ofc, known
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Categories:
mortals, dark, deep, imagery, philosophy,
Form: Verse
Mundane Matters of Mortals
Alas
how they suffer
poverty seeds disease
like a puddle breeds mosquitoes -
the sickly buzz is everywhere..
the dirge of the drudge
nowadays damn near everyone in refrain
rites and rituals --
enough to almost make this heartless
hooded old man feel faint - ha!
..a feign of concern with my bony hand to my stony brow..
mundane mortals
mundane matters
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Categories:
mortals, dark, death, loss, planet,
Form: Free verse
Among Mortals
save those tears for the solitude of night
alone in your cold little widow’s bed
when gates open to memories flowing
still shellshocked by the emptiness
of his love suddenly gone
taking comfort in knowing
how it went down all so perfect
in every detail of every moment
how he slipped into the next life
like he was taking off a coat
with dignity and
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Categories:
mortals, death, grief, hero, husband,
Form: Free verse
Ready To Die, Prepare To Live
The road to heaven is before us
It is not difficult to find
It is enshrined in the word of God
Jesus is the way, the truth and life
And so we should not be frightened where we are going to
He is with us
If we put our trust in Him death becomes a comma and not a period
It is
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Categories:
mortals, appreciation, bible, blessing, christian,
Form: Free verse
Lord What Fools These Mortals Be
"Lord what fools these mortals be!" Wm. Shakespeare
I hesitate to be on the same page,
with I the greatest poet of the ages,
but I believe his words to be true now,
fools gathering when it is not allowed.
The fools don't care who they put in danger,
be it a love one or perfect stranger,
they have no
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Categories:
mortals, anger, change, courage, encouraging,
Form: Sonnet
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