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Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE ABILITY TO SMILE

Today I’m grateful I have a face
a place for my smile to wear…
and for all the people in my life
with the ability to keep it there
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme


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What has the ability to reach in and twist your radio dial from happy Sunshine FM, to Doom and Gloom FM, against your will?

Turn the Page

When the freedom 
  to think

And the ability to write
  are at odds

    —turn the page

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)

Turn the Page

When the freedom 
  to think

And the ability to write
  are at odds

    —turn the page

(Villanova Pennsylvania: February, 2016)

Insanity

i lost the one i loved, the only one that makes me happy.
i lost the ability to trust.
i lost the will to live.
and now im losing my mind.


Premium Member THE BEAUTY WE POSSESS

How much easier is it so see the beauty in the world 
If we happened to be blessed…
first with the ability to see
the beauty we possess.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Learning 2 Perhaps

The ability to imagine
isn't a critical thinking lapse

Rather, a strengthening of the mind
and a willingness to say perhaps
Form: Quatern

Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE THE MOON

Today I’m grateful for moon…
who for years has been a friend of mine…
reminding me even when I’m not perfect…
I have the ability to shine.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE CASTLES IN THE SAND

Today I’m grateful for the knowledge…the ability to understand 
that I don’t need money or anyone’s permission
to build a castle in the sand.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

My Prayer

Lord
Let within me dwell
A pure heart, 
Compassion for my fellow man
And the ability to smile
When I slip on the banana peel
Of life!
Amen

Still Holding My Own

My life is a shambles unknown
The chaos is mine all alone
My dishevelled appearance 
Belies the coherence 
Of the ability to still hold my own
Form: Limerick

Praise

Praise be to Allah
Lord of the Worlds
For all that blessings
He has given us
The ability to see, 
Hear, see, walk, talk,  
much more to list
Form: Hamd

Guilt

Helpless a girl can do anything
She have the ability to do something
People may think, she always fine
No reason to think that she won't any guilt
Form: Quatern

Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE HUG AND A SMILE

Today I’m grateful for the ability to take a moment
every once in a while…
to remember the joy there is in a hug…
and the beauty in a smile.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE THE ABILITY TO DANCE

I am grateful for the ability to dance…
even though my dancing’s weak…
because dancing is one of the best ways I know
to allow my heart to speak.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Plea To Wisdom

Wisdom,

I implore Thee

Grant me the ability to discern 

The eternal within

The temporal! 

  

© Demetrios Trifiatis
    8 January 2013
Form: Epigram

Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE ANTHOPHILE

I am grateful for the way a single flower 
has the ability to make make me smile…
And grateful I will always find joy 
In being called an anthophile.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member THANKFUL FOR THE ABILITY TO FALL IN LOVE

Today I’m thankful for the ability to fall in love..
for this simple reason why…
The moment we fall in love…
Is the moment…our heart learns it can fly.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member GRATEFUL FOR JRANZ KAFKA

The older I grow the more I’m thankful for Franz Kafka
Who…I’ve read…and I’ve been told
Said:
Anyone who keeps the ability to find beauty
never will grow old
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE RIGHT AND WRONG

Today I’m grateful for two abilities 
that, hopefully, equally share my light…
The ability to admit when I am wrong
and the ability to stand up when I am right.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Freedom

If I had a choice, to be anyone in life
I would choose this life that I have,
because this life of mine
has given me the ability to choose!

© Harry J Horsman 2012

Am Polite When I Will Write

Do thank God for the ability to write
My poetry when I always am polite;
Of others will continually be thinking;
Often feel like I have been sinking.

Jim Horn
© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Form:

Mirrors

how much of you is really you?
and how much of you is me reflected?
do I have the ability to see you as you are?
or can I only see the image that I have projected?
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member DAILY GRATITUDE ABILITY TO REMEMBER

I am grateful for every moment of my life I can recall
spent with friends and family members…

and just as grateful I’ve been created
with the ability to remember.
© Jim Yerman  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Not So Scary

I
am 
a scary
ghost with
the ability to
transcend all of 
time and space; but 
the best way to show my 
power is to ever so slightly  
close this door by a few inches …
Form: Shape

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