Short Take Stock Of Poems

I can captain the ship, 
I can not command the ocean,
I can not control your words,
I can take stock of my emotion,
three business to mind,
one I own, one you own,
the other divine....

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If you are in love
Take stock of your actions.
Because words like dove
secure no affection.

Hold their hand
Kiss their face
Slide on a golden band
show they can't be replaced.

Love is for the warriors of doing
the disciples of yes
Take that chance, get going
Impress....

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On life's journeys do we stop to reflect
    take stock of where we have been
  Asking pointed questions helps us select
    a path forward to avoid taint of sin

  Where have we been? Where are we going?
    To Whom will we report in the end?
  In order to reap, we have to keep sowing
    Lovingly, our gardens to tend...

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I am a very lucky man
  to be a tiny part
    of God's grand plan

On the Sabbath I stay away
  from society's business
    for one whole day

Spend time with family and friends
  Pray, study, commune
    take stock of life's ends

Afterward, relaxed and refreshed
  I resume life's daily test
    primed to do my level-best...

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Pride it is said goes before a fall
A fall may not be fatal 

One good fall could be a blessing in disguise 
For It could signal a new beginning 

It could portend a second chance
It could also be a learning phase

When you skip and fall
As mortals sometimes do

Take stock of the pitfalls 
Get right up on your feet 
And be on the march again!...

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Sirens scream
when winds blow
under a cover of black clouds.
A storm breaks the grasp
of a sultry day,
and you must take cover.
Drop everything,
and grab your children
and radio and flashlight,
no time to take stock of your life,
not now.
Move orderly
downstairs
seek cover
wait
out forces
unseen
as they
twist along
the plains
somewhere,
and cower
in shadows
of your
life....

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Used to think that happiness 
Was contingent upon striving
If only we can obtain ______
Then we’ll really start thriving

Leads us to chasing our tail
Continually stuck in high gear
Yet there's a path to clear the air
To make the grasping disappear

Take stock of what we have now
Notice the pieces are already in place
To invite happiness to our doorstep
If we embrace today and end the chase...

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we love we cry
we wonder why
we live we die
no time to sigh
take stock of what we have today
tomorrow it may well go astray
love life each and every day
let no one steal your heart away
no dark thoughts let to cloud the mind
then happiness surely you will find
and if the one you love your heart does bind
break free before your eyes are blind
we love we cry
we wonder why
we live we die
no time to say goodbye...

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In the course of
Life's busy pace,
There comes
A day of reckoning,
When life,
in collusion with time,
Pulls back our reins
compelling us to stop
and take stock of our situation.

Sometimes life yanks us back
from the threshold of success,
Sometimes a few steps away
from the edge of the precipice.

But something good always
comes out of every situation.

It behooves us
to be patient
And trust the process
to find out what that is....

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Christmas


A real Merry Christmas is a time
Not for an unfettered pastime
Or, for fowls to take stock of brood
To see which turned into food
Nor time tummies to be braced
By flow food not to be disgraced....
It’s a time when more you give
And less you expect to receive
A time you must be led by love
Not a time to punish the stove
With endless cooking of treat
Or to attempt some daring feat!


JM

25th December 2013...

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