It's In You
...It's in you
Have you ever searched
I mean, put in some hard work
To fulfill your purpose
Come on, you deserve it
Have you ever sat still
And let God reveal
What he really wants you t...
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Categories:
regretfully, beautiful, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Fierce Review
..."Fierce Review"
Hindsight reviews tells me so much of what I want to keep, change, or completely drop.
My fierce review of my marriage and how my best fell short giving Doug what he earned and ...
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Categories:
regretfully, confusion, courage, death, forgiveness,
Form: Prose
2
...The worst curse
of being human
is thinking too much.
Doubt is born,
then resentment,
then your own hatred.
Regretfully,
I’ve created
what I never wanted:
a pain of the soul....
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Categories:
regretfully, confusion, fear, loneliness, lost,
Form: Free verse
Leave That Omen Behind
...When you’ve had every chance and all resource in hand.
When you’ve been in good graces and known where you stand.
When you had God in Heaven reach down just to line it all up,
and you still fou...
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Categories:
regretfully, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
We Were Free
...When we arrived in a new world after crossing the sea.
We were all seeking independence and an opportunity.
Families would find it challenging, making it rough.
With a lot of hard work, it woul...
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Categories:
regretfully, change, conflict, confusion, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Exposed
...From this angle the bushes do not conceal them.
Are they hinged or unhinging?
Each body is a prison gate for the other,
both seem stuck together by a pungent lip spit.
Feathering fingers pulse-pl...
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Categories:
regretfully, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Leftovers
...I’ve always felt like leftovers to you. The one you would only seek out when it most benefited you. When my plans were set, you were always “regretfully” busy with plans you completely dismissed me f...
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Categories:
regretfully, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
IT IS TIME TO STOP THE STUPIDITY!
...IT IS TIME TO STOP THE STUPIDITY!
The notes of a Shaka flute float to my ears
like an Arabian midsummer night’s dream
it flows through me like dinars in a Banshee’s pocket
in a food mark...
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Categories:
regretfully, god, hope, murder, war,
Form: Free verse
Beth
...Reel me in, I’m feeling further
My Desmond daze reaps a soulful yearn as you cross my plain
Reaching out yet only my eyes feel you
She’s God’s oath
Betwixt my folded arms that stitch, twist a sou...
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Categories:
regretfully, angst, autumn, break up,
Form: Spoken Word
Love Letter To Rose Shipwreck
...To my Dearest Darling Rose
I am writing this letter to you at this
moment sat on my own up on deck
of the ship and it's around midnight
We are somewhere due south of the
equator in the middl...
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Categories:
regretfully, loss,
Form: Free verse
My Kitty's In the Fishbowl
...I watched kitty inch closer to the fish
For you see she jumped upon a desktop
First a stool, then to a chair and then swish
My curious one had no bounds to stop
Back and forth she tiptoed aroun...
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Categories:
regretfully, cat, fish, nature,
Form: Quatrain
My Incomparable God
...I don't know the way to prostrate properly
I don't know how to make supplications discreetly
The droplets just drip down my cheeks
That's how this thing mercy seeks
I know my faults, so I fee...
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Categories:
regretfully, allah, forgiveness, islamic, motivation,
Form: Hamd
Memorial Day
...Memorial Day Poetry Contest
Oliver Mckeithan
To the many veterans, and regretfully to the many sacrificial lambs of the Viet Nam war my eyes will always tear for you. No medals or rewards. But yo...
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Categories:
regretfully, memorial day,
Form: Free verse
Remembering When
...A common phrase in athletic circles,
Speaks to the value of a short memory.
Designed to move on from costly mistakes,
While avoiding that painful slavery.
Regretfully, t...
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Categories:
regretfully, character,
Form: Narrative
The Unchangeables - Potw
...lasting...
all through your life, dear child,
the following crucial life lessons...
let go of the things
you cannot change;
all things bey...
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Categories:
regretfully, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Didactic
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