April Pride Poems

A message: 
Hello there Souper, thanks for calling by.
Just thought I'd stop the roundabout of life and call out "Hi"
This note is short and simple,...

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When you astonish by seeing
 An elder brother Calling 
His young bother
 " Big brother or father " 
______________________________

Because he is so rich 
And he depending on...

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Sensuality is in the movements, the glances shared,
In the timbre of the voice, a magic that's rare, 
It's in the wrinkles, and scars, with pride,...

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Oh, my father, I have tried
to walk the narrow way of truth.
True to my heart and true to my mind.
True to my body and true...

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Once feeling envy for your imposing life 
Lusted after your confidence and your possessions. 
The greed consumed me until the hunger 
overtook my natural sloth-like...

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The train was zooming by,
When I saw her like a veil 
A mystical angel
In the heavenly sky…

She was strolling in the street;
She was immaculately neat.
It...

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Ascending to heaven with pride*, we create ladder for failure’s doom.

*Proverbs 16:18 Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.

April 27, 2021

1st...

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Elysian ellipses of poetry's pride...
     a literary litany that draws from
sunlit and moonlit 
     eloquent emanations ensuing...

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One

ought not take pride in his

achievements
 
without

giving the divine its due 

otherwise 

heaven's blessings he is bound

to miss!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
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Rejection
a roundel by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

Your beauty from your heart has so erased
Pity, that it's useless to complain;
For Pride now holds...

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Great grandmother Rosa
Grandmother Maryrose
And Mother Roseann 
Daughter April Rose
Granddaughter Kayla Rose
Granddaughter Ella Rose 
Love all my Roses
//  ¦¦  \\
//   ¦¦ ...

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On the eve of November 11th, I never sleep more than a wink or two. How could I? So I rise before dawn, my heart...

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My child,
As you climb
Life’s journey
To the best of my ability
I will have your back
And steady your ladder
Always I will encourage you
So whenever you look back
You...

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There’s a price to pay
For not conforming to the mold
It won’t always be easy and
I won’t always mix in with the crowd
But I wouldn’t have...

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Long In The Tooth Skeptic,...
Nonetheless Rooted With Gumption

Implicit virtue of humankind
figuratively locked horns with vice,
yet time and again this mortal celibate,
(not by choice) sexagenarian thrice
older...

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