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Mortals Poems - Poems about Mortals

Premium MemberOne 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

Premium MemberMemories 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



Premium MemberDue 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

Premium MemberThat's the difference

                                        Want, not the need 
          
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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



Premium MemberThree 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

Premium MemberWe 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

Premium MemberMundane 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

Premium MemberAmong 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

Premium MemberReady 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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