Categories:
sharpen, cat, children,
Form: Free verse
Growing in Gray or Green
Sharpen your mind like you sharpen a pencil
Embrace the point as well as your dimples
Be inspired to grow despite being green or gray
Desire dear soul to be clear clean in white faith
Give your ears that you may hear blue truth
Fight your fears avoid gossip the talk of fools
Open your heart to love and
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Categories:
sharpen, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Sharpen the Saw
I like the swings.
I swing highly and say “ Hee-Haw”!
That’s how I sharpen the saw,
I love to sing.
My voice ring, ring, rings.
Singing is how I sharpen the saw.
I came. I saw. I conquered.
I like to draw Cookie Monster.
That’s how I sharpen the saw.
Habit 7 is one of my favorites.
Sharpen the saw is what I like
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Categories:
sharpen, appreciation, education,
Form: Rhyme
Rather I, Sharpen Blade, Saddle My Battle Horse, Dawn, First Battle, Part One
Rather I, Sharpen Blade, Saddle My Battle Horse,
(Dawn, First Battle, Part One)
Dare I, reduce poet's pen to a plastic sword
flee from shadows that invades as destructive hordes?
Nay, such would incinerate reborn poetic soul,
bring heartache and destroy path to truth's gallant goal.
Rather I, sharpen blade, saddle my battle horse
walk through searing flames alone yet on steady
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Categories:
sharpen, art, conflict, courage, dark,
Form: Sonnet
Present To Sharpen
Through the good times and bad,
I held onto my anger
Either happy or sad,
it was never a stranger
Beginning unto end,
it would surface quite often
Past and future beguiled
—the present to sharpen
(Villanova Pennsylvania: November, 2017)
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Categories:
sharpen, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Sharpen Your Vision
Sharpen your vision
And enhance your day
Continue to broaden your mind
As the ship sails by the bay
You have it in you
Be the one to believe
Follow through on your course
So you can achieve
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Categories:
sharpen, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
To Now Sharpen the Blade On Wet Flint
The mead warmed the belly
The songs eased the mind
The frown lines disappeared
The friends lost in battle!
Earned a salute to be cheered
Boots with soles worn thin
Cuts left to heal in the wind
To now sharpen the blade on wet flint
To make ready to fight for the new fu#king King!
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Categories:
sharpen, dedication, military, soldier, sorrow,
Form: Free verse
Sharpen Up the Axe
When I woke up this morning in my warm comfortable bed
I wished I could stay there and go back to sleep instead
But the Lord was beckoning and I knew I'd best obey
So I got up and prepared myself for what the Lord would say
I thanked him for watching over me throughout the night
And allowing me
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Categories:
sharpen, faith, me, children, me,
Form: Rhyme