Where are we going
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Death is like falling asleep and waking up in God's beautiful garden. ~anonymous
I long for the quiet
place toward which I go
with simpleness of mind,
and yearning in my heart
to r...
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Categories:
simpleness, death,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Blessings On Earth
...I count blessings as I gaze up on stars
Watch the dawn arrive in a pink aqua tint
Hear a rooster crow me his morning memoirs
Each day offers a different fingerprint
Swirls of overlapping richne...
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Categories:
simpleness, appreciation, life,
Form: Terza Rima
Easy Going
...Leaving on a freight train, don't know where I'm going
Hope I'm alive when I arrive with no bills owing
Halleluya debt free
Simpleness is the key
Spend little, enjoy much and be easygoing...
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Categories:
simpleness, beautiful,
Form: Limerick
Are We Too Cold To Look Beyond
...“Irish I am,” my mam speaks in hushed tones to the air
She questions still, seeming to her alone
Intones, “Ireland, O Ireland, what are you?
Where do you keep yourself, so I may rediscover you?”
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Categories:
simpleness, devotion, heaven, home, ireland,
Form: Free verse
Markers
...You preferred the milestones of life
House, kids, somebodies wife
I preferred the simpleness of our mile markers
pitter-patter of running feet
1 mile
then the beep
sweaty brow
Bright clea...
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Categories:
simpleness, i love you, love,
Form: Free verse
At the Ends of Your Stanzas
...be careful
when you
invite new
metaphors
into your
fresh built
box of a poem.
a small
house is
perfect
or a poet
that has
few silver
words left
in their
pocket.
lower ca...
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Categories:
simpleness, adventure, art, cool, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
A Piece of Cake
...I'm sipping a cup of warm tea while I read, and
it occurs to me how simple and good some
things can be without a convolution of extra
ingredients supposedly to make it “better,”
which kind of...
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Categories:
simpleness, father daughter,
Form: Free verse
I Can'T Wait
...You liked my hair long,so I cut it short.
You liked my smile, So I stopped smiling so big.
You liked my simpleness. So I became as complex as possible.
You liked my hair dark, So i dyed it brig...
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Categories:
simpleness, art, autumn, first love,
Form: Free verse
Foresee Rhymes, the Random Do Shine Brighter Than Bright
...Don't need a beat, don't need to eat
feed for free fast food, sitting in me
I devour the hour and soon
the hour glass breaks to
sand
time turns tables
like you're able to be fine
so make of e...
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Categories:
simpleness, beauty, imagery, imagination,
Form: Verse
Spiraling Flow
...Stuck inside of a nightmare
lookin' like I might just slight tear
myself from the light there right
barely a knife couldn't share me a slice of the right hare
even if I slice up the bright hair
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Categories:
simpleness, family, halloween, image, imagery,
Form: Verse
Ocd
...I feel as lame as a whale without its fins to swim in fine waters
Blue blasphemy break a spirit of slumberless insanity that rips up my poetic loves, likes, unlikes and hates
Debates on TV…flee fro...
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Categories:
simpleness, anxiety, , atheist,
Form: Free verse
Hopeless Nomadic Part 3
...I’m left perplexed. How vexing, how complex…
the plight of a simple man, (one’s ruin is another’s choosing) is moving and doing the least that he can, no oil changes no wedding band.
All this just...
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Categories:
simpleness, addiction, adventure, freedom, home,
Form: Rhyme
At Last
...There’s a house in a field somewhere
A sea of a sky out there
Begging to be born again
With my hands to till,
Your heart, and a windmill
A weathervane that tries
Without the presence of your e...
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Categories:
simpleness, farm, garden, happiness, peace,
Form: Free verse
Inspire
...on a crisp white page
I pen the words
flowing like lyrics
to my favorite song
and you inspire me
to be all I can be
and the simpleness of this
fills my heart...
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Categories:
simpleness, love
Form: Free verse
Inspired
...on a crisp white page
I read the words
flowing like lyrics
to my favorite song
and they inspire me
to be all I can be
and the simpleness
fills my heart...
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Categories:
simpleness, inspirational
Form: Free verse
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