Birthday Self Poems

March Comes In Like A Lion 

Dandelion dance
in the palm of my 
hand; a gentle 
bloom. 

I love 
my birthday 
flower.
...

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J-ackets
E-nfold
M-emories,

F-itting
A-spirations
B-eyond
R-outine—
E-ach
G-arment
A-s
S-ignature

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Monocrostic (Birthday of Jem O. Fabregas)...

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My head has always been made of glass,
and inside it lives a faint idea of who I am.
She used to be a silhouette,
but even then...

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Awakened and degenerated, I feel I am clashing somewhere 
The clouds appear and then depart, just another face amongst billions  
Millions of colors of...

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I value human life and love
I value the beauty it brings
The birth craze exceptional to me
I like the blooming like a flower
Not the fading and...

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This year 2024 is an opportunity to reflect on the previous year past and set new goals for the next 12 months ahead. We must...

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My suit of self-loathing no longer fits
The mirror of compassion tells me so
Years of bad-intentions held back growth 
After a time, the length of my...

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I, too, dislike poems.
I’ve tried runes (and rampikes)
but that’s affected
rather than merely effete.
So I call them
figments.
When people query
What do you write?
at a barbecue or birthday...

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One hundred pushups every morning,
followed by breaking my fast with some healthy nutrition.
My outdoor activities involve miles of walking.
My indoor activities are pretty much the...

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Getting Old

I used to look so young and slim
I could wear anything I chose
now I buy from tent shops
it's the only way to get clothes

I...

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happy birthday

it started in the usual way -
getting up - getting dressed - working all day.
but this evening - this evening was mine.
as i drove...

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Life is all about Transformations...
The one who was yesterday..
Is not the one  today..
The One who is here today..
Is not the one tomorrow..
Every human is...

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It is just August,
days dusty and hellish hot,
but I don’t notice.
A mercurial Virgo, 
I might change my mind....

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This is to me,
This is for me,
For me and I only,
Many turbulence days I have seen,
Many meandering roads I have walked, 
I have been in...

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Learning. Healing. Growing 
Walking away from relationships that challenge my peace. Revisiting myself in places that I left abandoned. Being softer on my thoughts. Being...

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