Tomorrow's just another day
...Why worry about what the future brings?
Tomorrow's just another day, they say,
No need to pout, and pule, and pine away.
Instead, I'll relish this day's offerings,
Anticipate tomorrow's profferin...
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Categories:
pine away, philosophy,
Form: Sonnet
Why I Want to be a Poet
...I will never be a great poet, but that is okay
writing poetry helps relieve the anxiety of life’s challenges
a life full of ups and downs
I have a choice to make
will I sit and pine away or wil...
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Categories:
pine away, feelings, poetry,
Form: Free verse
When I Kick the Buckett
...When I kick the bucket you better cry
misery and loneliness overwhelm you when I die
You better mourn over me missing me a lot
even with another don't ever let me be forgot
Make your home a shrin...
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Categories:
pine away, death, humor, humorous, satire,
Form: Rhyme
This What Winter Brings
...This is what winter brings.
Depressions vines climbing its way back across the mind.
Fleetingly vamping across acres of its inner shell.
Cutting all the warmth that was once held within.
Freezing...
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Categories:
pine away, depression, seasons, weather, winter,
Form: Prose
For Lack Of
...-From the Passover musical that I wrote, "On Eagles' Wings." My sister Amy Grace helped me with this. This was the song of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt-
Each day we wake
Before dawn’s break
And go...
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Categories:
pine away, longing, slavery, work,
Form: Lyric
Award Won By My Lord
...Award Won By My Lord
We would open envelope with a sword;
Read name receiving Academy Award;
Bible also read;
Good news spread;
Gave an Emmy graciously to my Lord.
Jim Horn
About Lord ha...
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Categories:
pine away, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Land and Sea
...Do you wish to hold me?
We can drift on the sea my love,
under the stars above.
You were my lovely dove so free,
who captivated me.
I thought I’d never be so glad
and still inside so sad
For...
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Categories:
pine away, angst, lost love,
Form: Rhyme
Down On Me
...Crusty old oaks
wave brittle arms angrily
overhead, threatening
to drop dead
crushingly
heavy limbs
Down
Taller trees
having achieved
the highest heights
pine away, lonely
jealously pour...
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Categories:
pine away, imagination, jealousy, nature, perspective,
Form: Personification
Before the Gates of Alahsar - Original Version - 2
...2.
Off into the distance, total darkness,
to the right where all was light
Divinity thy beast is coming
from his land of endless night.
The thunder and the lightning playing
terrors own sweet...
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Categories:
pine away, dark, death, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Belated Apologetic Valentine
...I don't say the many things I should;
A sometime poet who runs out of words.
I don't do the things I could;
I get distracted once the wine is poured.
I'm not sure the things I say and think
Are ...
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Categories:
pine away, introspection, romance, sad love,
Form: Rhyme
On Men of High Birth Or Station, the Thiruk-Kural Admonishes
...On men* of high birth or station, the THIRUK-KURAL admonishes
[*on modern-day Kings, Emperors, Dictators and the like leading nations declining as powers through faults of their own ]
K963:...
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Categories:
pine away, america, birth, character, future,
Form: Epigram
Song of the Sojourner
...Song of the Sojourner
From far, far, away,
In this land so foreign,
Memories of you haunt me.
I pine away in craving,
For the feel of your breath,
Cool, soft and saline,
Fanning my face, gen...
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Categories:
pine away, childhood, home, longing,
Form: Free verse
Fading Love
...You gave me a magic walk in the rain
Those beautiful sunsets time and again
You gave me glimpses of your beautiful mind
Love that is gentle, tender, and kind.
The rainbow, the blossoms, sweet s...
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Categories:
pine away, lost love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
More Than Grace Dream Weaver
...Oh precious noble sunrise gift
Collecting small pieces of mosaic to a beautiful love
Your my majestic rose whom blossoms deeply splendid
Flowering a Princess young and lightly blushing regal sove...
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Categories:
pine away, angel, beautiful, beauty, emotions,
Form: Free verse
- More Than Grace Dream Weaver -
...Oh precious noble sunrise gift
Collecting small pieces of mosaic to a beautiful love
You're my majestic rose whom blossoms deeply splendid
Flowering a Princess young and lightly blushing regal so...
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Categories:
pine away, beautiful, beauty, blessing, emotions,
Form: Free verse
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