Short Start From Scratch Poems

my life is Scrabble
random words with not much sense
redraw, start from scratch...

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I need to learn
I need to see
All this harm
And complacency
What am I doing
In life yes writing 
Poetry is nice
But how far have I come
For it to all be undone
And start from scratch 
All over again...

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What are Senses?
A sense of touch
A sense of smell
A sense of faith.

What happens when they are gone?
Scattered to the wind
Weathered by the storm
Coming up empty.

What do we do then?
Start from scratch
Back to the drawing board
Turning over that leaf.

Will we ever be the same?
Time is indifferent
Wounds will heal
Scars remain....

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Going to start over
Going to do it right
Going to listen to my mind
And less to my heart

Going to see what’s out there
Going to start from scratch
Going to initiate a change
And not look back

Going to get happy
Going to set new goals
Going to start a new chapter
And restore my soul

Going to fall in love again
Going to reinvent my life
Going to forget about you
And all that we once had...

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Why do we have to be so blind
when we're reborn every time
why not use the knowledge gained
when we were called by different names?

Why must we always start from scratch
to err and suffer and illness catch
why does it take us fifty years
of pain and suffering and endless tears?

Oh, to do it all again
knowing what I didn't then.
Would words unspoken in sadness mired
have kept the gun from being fired?...

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Wondering what happened
Where did we go wrong?
All of the arguments
In our happy home

Love we professed
But anger dominated
What was once my one and only
Became an object of my hatred

Promises to work things out
Always ending up in fights
Wanting to be happy
But never making things right

Now a year has passed
But the memories remain
I wonder if it would ever be possible
To start  from scratch and learn to love again...

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In life, we get to pick and choose
And live with each decision.
There’s more to it than win or lose
For what we might envision

Most often won’t exactly match
Reality’s rendition
And even if we start from scratch
To bring it to fruition

Another road may take us where
We’d never planned to travel;
Despite some welcome plusses there,
Our souls may still unravel.

Therefore to this lesson heed:
Wanting gets usurped by need....

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Symmetry appeals to me – 
The yin demands a yang.
Imagine Dracula if he
Had just one single fang.

A balance is required
For a bird or bee to fly
So Nature has conspired
To explain the reason why.

We have two eyes, two ears, two feet
And, naturally, two hands.
Symmetrically, we are complete
To follow life’s commands.

Rebellious types like things askew,
Eschewing any match,
But when I see their work on view,
I wish they’d start from scratch....

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