LABOR OF LOVE THOUGHTS ON AWARNESS OF THE NEEDS OF SELF AND THOSE OF OTHERS
...LABOR OF LOVE THOUGHTS ON AWARENESS OF
THE NEEDS OF SELF AND THOSE OF OTHERS
Hey there, where you are now, I feel more than you can know;
In my life’s time, I too, have been there many times b...
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Categories:
reflector, encouraging, identity, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
TO BEING HERE ON THIS GLORIOUS DAY
...TO BEING HERE ON THIS GLORIOUS DAY
Because you are in it,
This is a blessed day
To enjoy and be glad in:-
While some have been called in,
You have been given another day
To be an instrument...
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Categories:
reflector, faith, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Prose
FRANCIS OF GOD
...FRANCIS OF GOD
Spiritual fruit of God,
Reflector of loving peace,
Pontiff of justice:-
Labors of love completed,
May his spirit remain here:-
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Categories:
reflector, bereavement, christian, eulogy, love,
Form: Tanka
IN PRAISE OF DIVINE LIBERATION
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IN PRAISE OF DIVINE LIBERATION
I once wallowed in apathy,
I once had bad feelings
Of being unworthy;
Struggling with failure:-
In anger, I once felt
God had abandoned me,
Until a keloid me...
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Categories:
reflector, allegory, endurance, forgiveness, inspirational,
Form: Prose
Bad Nation
...I’m living dead, I’m a bad nation
As bad as you like to percieve
The easiest for condemnation
En masse, so maybe I’m not me
Because I’m always undistinguished
I am a crowd you ignore
All person...
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Categories:
reflector, political,
Form: Rhyme
haiku
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branch with raindrop tip
garden flower reflector
natures gazing ball...
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Categories:
reflector, flower, nature, rain,
Form: Haiku
The torture of the torcher
...What is the torture of the torcher
Destined to carry light inside, blinded by the darkness outside
Can the two exist in a world of infinite color … Where neither is as clear as the light that...
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Categories:
reflector, allusion, angst, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Stages of Life and the Changes
...I don't know what exactly this contest is and what a list poem is. I just enter the contest for the fun of it.
Childhood
a) Wished to hear stories from grand parents
b) Cried over cuts a...
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Categories:
reflector, analogy, change, life,
Form: List
Pink Reflections of Bagram Afghanistan
...Between Iraq OEF and Afghanistan ISAF I did about 120 months OCONUS..
A peculiarity about Bagram Airfield which housed about 40,000 people, mostly US enlisted soldiers from all 5 groups and the off ...
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Categories:
reflector, black african american,
Form: Free verse
Imperfectly Perfect
...Everytime I look at the mirror
There are flaws on my skin which are clear
All the dark spots on my skin
Where people think it is a sin
I think I had a beautiful smile
But I left it a long w...
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Categories:
reflector, anger, betrayal, bullying, deep,
Form: Free verse
I Watched You Change
...I saw you morph to a butterfly.
An aristocrat of a lover's lie.
The innocence you doth carried,
For sorrow and carnage were married.
Eerie follies of moments never forgotten
And cresce...
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Categories:
reflector, change, depression, faith, gothic,
Form: Rhyme
Abortion
...The Abortion
Morning broke in the Sea of Japan
the rainbow was off-colour
A day was born.
Incomprehensible
thought it had power
to charm us
When it was a reflector of the weather.
The rain...
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Categories:
reflector, angel, anger, angst, break
Form: Blitz
She's Like the Moon
...I'm not good at moon guessing,
but God created many a blessing;
and the moon is just one of them.
I'm neither scholar nor theologian,
but I observed that God made the
heavenly bodies, making no ...
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Categories:
reflector, gender, moon,
Form: Verse
Egoic Desire To Serve
...The desire to serve
Noble yet ego present
For feel good factor
Love is compassion
A truth we do not deny
If intent be pure
Purity is void
Presence identityless
A humble conduit
Moon a...
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Categories:
reflector, spiritual,
Form: Haiku
Recalibrating the Core
...Reflector not the doer
thus with this recognition
flows gently in quiet surrender
in a continuum of prayerful meditation
Stupor yet interrupts pure loving intent
hypnotic trance of ego origin...
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Categories:
reflector, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
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