Skills Poems - Poems about Skills

When life is cruel or unkind I write a poem, a song, a story or such If this does not rejuvenate me, I take a nap Dream in my favorite pinks, oranges and yellows My dreams are fantastical, frolicking and fun Alliteration peppers my thoughts upon awakening I think I will write them down, but in moments they are gone So, I...

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Socrates to Plato Emerson to Thoreau When the student is ready the teacher will appear Invaluable lessons will be on display for him to feel, see, and hear Ali to Larry Jordan to Kobe If the student is willing, he will do the valiant work He would rather not be the teacher; instead, he aims to show his worth Picasso to Warhol Brown to...

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Start with more than one pinch of small-town Iowa mischief Sixty-five cups of empathy Fifty cups of understanding Thirty cups of honesty Stir until they are milky and comfortably pudding-like Add a half a pound of trustworthiness Set aside for an hour, maybe chill in the refrigerator In a second bowl sift together Three cups of common sense Two cups of wonder And a cup...

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the next few years were testing, I had to learn new skills from the handling of a wheelchair to the sorting out of bills to go shopping with a wheelchair, trying to navigate the aisles some people gave us dirty looks, but some others gave us smiles the thing I found most hard to bear, was other people's attitudes a...

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Skills are born Out of intent Honed through practice....

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Fed up with his constant prattle I got into a verbal battle The harshest of words were spoken But in the end his will was broken My voice was clear and strong of lung I was sharp of wit and deft of tongue His face grew pale and ashen gray Then he finally just walked away...

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Teaching my son important life skills daily so he can be ready for whatever comes his way...

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Everyone has a special talent Everyone has some special skills Nothing is eternal under the tent Everyone is entitled to some special deals Who are we to prejudge or judge? Who are we to refuse to budge? Once in a while, comes a little surprise Most of the time, it is no good to surmise No one is the same, no one is...

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(Family heirloom, Persian Gharajeh rug) Coping Skills The world is certainly not as it should be. Maybe it’s always been that way, But now we know 24/7. So we each and all cope as best we can. For some this can be as bad as becoming a serial killer, For others as innocuous as being addicted to exercise Or in my case,...

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I'm not jealous of all His suffering or His final Ascension hovering I accept that I cannot cure on touch or walk on water, or through walls and such But I sometimes get the distinct feeling (when with people, or prayerfully kneeling) That I wish I could get to know others-- (family, friends, neighbors, sisters and brothers) --The way God does, completely,...

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A carapace of courage Lies buried in the hills. A library of wisdom Stocked with empty pages, Erased for all the ages. A husk of special skills And verbal vitality Dad, juggernaut at rest....

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There's nothing you can get done in life without Knowing mastery of how well to acquire abilities and ...

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No talk, no walk, No laws, no clause, That's her way of dreaming. Just the silence between the journey, The peace connecting two broken pieces of heart, Was the making of the bro sis art. Their relationship was an art, Not just his and hers, but even those who aren't related by blood. He lauded her through all the thick and thin, He gained...

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I try not to speak ahead of feeling certain I have something of health value to wealth contribute in this our neuro-sensory Commons. Yet, more curiously significant for our cooperative longterm resilience as an EarthTribe communing species I hope to deeply and widely listen for ambiguous paradoxical uncomfortably nuanced and complex emergent feelings becoming anxious anticipations and creatively stressed polycultural examinations polytheistic aspirations Inspirations we each and all together have complex relationships for healthy win/win...

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Communication learning systems like organic people and plants and living planets could include education subsystems Teaching/studying employing nonviolent principles of communion dialogue co-reflection co-investment To optimize multicultural health deepest widest wealthiest most polyculturally inclusive robust thriving EarthTribe communion To repair retributive justice win/lose discommunicating corrupt systems to restore global green/blue regenerative peace Multi-generational holistic win/win learning systems could include historic education re-communicating reconnecting secular and sacred ego/eco-bilateral systems Employing co-passionate principles of trauma prevention to replace social crime infection and state autocracy deception and federated kleptocracy...

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