Life Simple Poems

An intellectual dresses a simple idea in the cloak of heavy and elaborate words,
Building castles from long, intricate sentences that rise toward the sky,
While the...

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When we lived beneath thatch-roofed houses,
Curry simmered in pots,
Flames flickered from firewood gathered
From hills and thickets.

When bullock carts creaked
Under paddy loads,
Harvests reaped from fertile fields,
Bicycles...

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If just a hello is all you can say 						
To brighten what might be someone’s bad day, 				
Then that’s what you do. You say a...

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Don't by me designer clothes, don't give me precious stones, don't need none of that. Take me for a walk on the beach by the...

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Scattered buttons on the floor
A cat named Buttons dying at my door

I think of what a button can do
Oh, Buttons the Cat, how I loved...

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The quest of life, it is no certain thing,
No circumstance assurance brings of bliss.
So many thoughts, so very few take wing;
The hit or miss is...

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Province life just hits me differently 
I cannot explain how peaceful it is
Though simple things I experience mostly
It is satisfying and consoling living
I may not...

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“Such simple things in life
  can make it full and rife.”
             ...

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You say
       I’m seamless -
           the  timeless...

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The petal of a rose once fell 
then drifted slowly through the trees.
Upon the wind it tumbled long
until it drifted up to me.

At first, I...

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My eyes gazed outside
At this world so vast and wide,
And that dreary dreadful feeling
Was pushed back deep inside.

Contact was made 
Where the Great Moon stayed,
And...

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I shall not pray for roses,
When daffodils would do:
The simple without poses,
I never shall eschew.
...

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Life is full of daily routine
just things we do each day
they can get pretty boring
but they are required come what may

We have a set of...

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Life is simple to live
It's your lifestyle that complicate
You can live in simple house
Buy things that's local 
Eat simple nutritious food
Wear simple dress that suit...

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You ask me why I stay,  
why these streets hold my steps,  
why my days fold together  
like waves that never rush,...

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