Ego
...Ego
Can one compose I, Me, Mine and Myself?
Are you unpretentious hanging on to your
Ego?
Dualistic personalities is it the beast? A seeker
of pure pleasures? Guilty until proven innocent...
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Categories:
reviewing, 12th grade, 1st grade,
Form: Free verse
Only One Was Sinless
...
At times we all experience days overcast,
but from beyond many clouds some good often comes.
Perhaps recalling things deep entombed in our past,
is what's causing our day to seem filled ...
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Categories:
reviewing, how i feel, jesus,
Form: Lyric
Treading Lightly Over a Dead Poet
...You flounce
as if you were an ostrich fan
all fluffed up on the page
waving at posterity.
I nibble at your chicken livers,
occasionally
swing from your bell-ringing images
that dare to delight...
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Categories:
reviewing, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Past Is A Teacher
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Past Is A Teacher
Miracle Man
1/5/2025
In reviewing our past life,
which we cannot rearrange.
Let it become our instructor,
on habits we must change.
Our past can be a good instr...
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Categories:
reviewing, life, teacher,
Form: Lyric
Class
...I sit in class with my thoughts on blast,
The paper in front is one of the last
I fidget with my pencil and remain outcast
And act oblivious to the obvious task.
The teacher walks around, revie...
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Categories:
reviewing, 9th grade, analogy, anxiety,
Form: Rhyme
Harvest of Resilience
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A golden butter melting on warm toast,
tasting of home, a soft gasp wrapped
in sweet memories, a heart held lightly
by rays of summer sun, unbuttoning a gray,
crying sky that on...
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Categories:
reviewing, analogy, literature, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The practice
...Pause before action and after action pause,
reviewing first the play of cause and effect,
double checking whether it obeys love’s laws,
doing at all times, as conscience does direct
and if this b...
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Categories:
reviewing, spiritual,
Form: Ottava rima
Crew Cut
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Reviewing the clippings of his mountain climbs
like watching a flick solo for the umpteenth time
The longer he lingered, the tireder he grew
~ not much fun without the rest of the...
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Categories:
reviewing, adventure, fun, loneliness, together,
Form: Couplet
I AM WITHIN HIS BELOVED SIGHT-
...In the air, turning
Something in my heart is yearning
Haven’t seen the darkness for the light
I AM WITHIN HIS BELOVED SIGHT-
Whereas my life is reviewing
Something on the journey...
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Categories:
reviewing, analogy, appreciation, beautiful, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Magnus Effect
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"The Magnus Effect"
A whole life in a deck of cards
dealt across the table
in front of the brutally dismissive,
the fortunes of the war worn read
translated glamorous...
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Categories:
reviewing, muse, music, mystery, sensual,
Form: Narrative
Content
...On reviewing my life towards it’s end I have no regrets my Silent friend....
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Categories:
reviewing, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Rhyme
Future Look Back
...Return to a past
what changes to make,
things I have done
or places I've been.
Who should I be
a better version of me?
Reviewing life's travels
and what's come to pass,
would you change ...
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Categories:
reviewing, introspection, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Figurative Paralysis Laid Waste Body Electric of Mine
...Figurative paralysis laid waste body electric of mine
This is Spinal tap
bamboozling, binding, bleeding, bombing...
ripped from every dog eared
and book marked page
recounting latest ill fat...
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Categories:
reviewing, absence, adventure, allusion, analogy,
Form: Free verse
Start the Day
...Lisa and I were watching one of our favorite series last night, a Japanese manga called “The Way of the Househusband” and I could barely keep my eyes open. I went to bed at a decent hour (11:30) but ...
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Categories:
reviewing, angst, friendship, humor, school,
Form: Free verse
Lord God, You Are My Soul Satisfier
...June 2 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 63-67
Key Verse – Psalm 63:1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee ...
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Categories:
reviewing, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
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