All I want
...#All_I_want
The ticking on my wrist,
start to show my age,
and what could have been,
some memories worth dumped by the roadside. Time is of no essence to me now.
Been pondering,
even the...
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Categories:
no man is an island, break up, deep, desire,
Form: Free verse
La Dee Da
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“No Man Is An Island”
but that was before smart phones
To text and to tweet
technology’s drones
With ear buds in place
these Stepford’s march on
Virtually connecting
— to what’s already g...
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Categories:
no man is an island, technology,
Form: Rhyme
Words Vanish
...*** Words Vanish ***
Words vanish!
Disperse — as prayer begun
Moves to clear the mind
And bare the heart,
Swelling the soul to meet Thee
With love…
Sending on high gratitude’s p...
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Categories:
no man is an island, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
Defeat and Redemption
...No man is an island they say
Still, amidst this crowd and noise I feel lonely
I badly want someone to talk to
But words don’t come easy
Millions of things are running in my head
But my lips ...
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Categories:
no man is an island, anxiety, depression, emotions, faith,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Fireflies
...Fireflies face extinction due to habitat loss, light pollution and
pesticides. What have they done to deserve such callous fate?
"No man is an island"
A saying by the English author John Donne
Fireflies
Bo...
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Categories:
no man is an island, earth, fate,
Form: Rhyme
To Be a Man
...I am a woman and I'm not trying to speak on behalf of men with my poem...
But, I do know many men are struggling...
Today more than ever... And I wanted my guy friends to know that I love and sup...
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Categories:
no man is an island, encouraging, meaningful, men, society,
Form: Rhyme
In Praise of Mentors
...Deliver me from the arrogance of self-satisfaction
Feeling content in myself, as though I needed no one,
Thinking of others as no more than a distraction
Failing to acknowledge how man...
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Categories:
no man is an island, appreciation, leadership, people, perspective,
Form: Sonnet
No Man Is An Island
...Smiles brighter than the Sun on a fragrant summer day
Two kids, a boy and girl, go out to play
Only do the threatening storm clouds wipe that joy away
Like a mop across a sticky kitchen floor
The...
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Categories:
no man is an island, adventure, age, analogy, beauty,
Form: Free verse
Working Remotely
...Remote works.
We're all floating particles, anyway.
Oh c'mon!
Let me live again!
How do we measure the distance
Between two hearts?
If no man is an island,
And every man is an island, t...
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Categories:
no man is an island, life,
Form: Free verse
No Man Is An Island
...no man is an island,
part of the continent i believe thee to say
well some have chosen a peninsula
free of cross-town traffic
friends are few and far between
we treasure our own thinking
less...
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Categories:
no man is an island, philosophy,
Form: Free verse
Wave Goodbye
...For more than two years, we’ve been riding
a tsunami, now surfing the sixth viral wave
and we’ve all become amateur epidemiologists.
Hooray for MRNA, but variants keep emerging
and we’re all get...
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Categories:
no man is an island, basketball, change,
Form: Free verse
Life On a Stormy Sea
...Hours of stressful birthing was an arduous task.
From Mother's waters I was pushed and drawn.
Since then, I've wondered, is it too much to ask
for a gentler method for a child to be spawn
then to...
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Categories:
no man is an island, life, longing,
Form: Rhyme
Freedom's Fancy
...Good leaders cannot agree about world order
Yet many believe freedom is indivisible
Privileged tolerance then shall foil fool's fancy
If freedom is intrinsic in the human race
Will we agree it ...
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Categories:
no man is an island, america, fate, freedom, self,
Form: Free verse
My Secret Key
...Rolly, rolling in shallow surf, every wave a wisp
that'll move me through this sticky sand to the lush land.
Lumbering, waterlogged, soggy heap in my tux,
arms flopping, flailing about, cool curre...
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Categories:
no man is an island, garden, philosophy, sea, self,
Form: Free verse
Partying To Being Watch Party Hosts
...Being gregarious by nature, they are not exempted
“No man is an island;” such they take as truth-prompted…
Hence, Partee and Friendee never want to be afflicted
by gatherings’ constrained,...
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Categories:
no man is an island, blessing, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Rhyme
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