Slice of Life
We are all on borrowed time
Yet we constantly search for
The next step in our climb
Ponder pausing the pursing
Taking a moment to slow down
To divert us from all the doing
May realize how blessed we are
Rejoiced to relish in the present
In lieu of perpetually raising the bar
This sliver of time and space
Will
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Categories:
slice of life, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
Four Point Ten: Becoming
Mistakes are trophies
acting like hapless failures
when they're treasures
Flaws are enticing,
everything real gets damaged
not struggling with age
Pain is beautiful
if tears become diamonds
instead of weapons
-Nicola An
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Categories:
slice of life, appreciation, beautiful, life, light,
Form: Haiku
A Happy Slice of Life
Just found the secret to a happy life
Don't give a poop stay away from vice
Stay on track
Never look back
Here's to a happy life, great advice
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Categories:
slice of life, life,
Form: Limerick
Slice of Life
pepperoni red
flapping in a naked tree
determined squirrel
1.25.2020
(I was looking for a haiku when caught my eye, out the window across the street from me was this squirrel stuffing a whole pizza
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Categories:
slice of life, animal, food,
Form: Haiku
Something Beautiful
awakened by
the cool drop
o temperature
in the room
across my face
and just as
suddenly
greeted by
the warmth
of the blanket
as comforting
as a hug and
as soothing
as a cup of tea
and reading
a good book
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Categories:
slice of life, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Slice of Life
It’s summer on the hill
With Day Lilies surrounding the house
Hummingbirds buzzing and chirping
Other birdsongs warbling in the trees
The black bear wandered slowly by
Then, rushed into the woods from noise
Shades of green everywhere to see
A slice of life, a peaceful place to be
As if the rest of the world does not exist
Colors, plants and the wildlife
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Categories:
slice of life, appreciation, nature, summer,
Form: Free verse
The Slice of Life
Life is as precious
As a rose, so beautiful!
And the slice of life
Tastes sweeter than
A cherry so sweet.
In the midst of life,
Myriads of lemons squeezed
Make lemonade,
Keeping us all infinitely thirsty.
God willing, we'll keep on
Quenching that thirst
For years and years to come.
In the final hour
of our inevitable demise,
May we all have the courage
To face it
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Categories:
slice of life, death, desire, future, life,
Form: Lyric
A Slice of Life
This rainy morning you gave me a feel of your flower
Thank you I want to give you a poem in return
Soaked in pleasant smell of the showers
I like your eyes going through these words from green fern
Thank you I want to give you a poem in return
As you sing in the fifth avenue
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Categories:
slice of life, desire, environment, life, stress,
Form: Pantoum
Slice of Life
Take a piece of childhood,
Beaten by a dad.
Although you only beat them,
When you know that they’ve been bad.
Take a slice of living,
Not protected by a mum.
It’s only fair to leave a mark,
To punish what they’ve done.
Take a term of school time,
Where masters had a cane.
And if they dared to answer back,
Their hands would feel the
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Categories:
slice of life, childhood, children, education, growing
Form: Rhyme
Slice of Life
The bus station is empty,
three hours to wait.
The girl behind the counter,
long black hair hanging in ringlets,
stares lazily as we approach.
"May I help you?"
The homeless man wanders in slowly,
takes a seat on the opposite
side of the room, facing the wall-
escapes through sleep.
Hours pass; would be travelers trickle in.
An addicted people-watcher,
I observe, intrigued.
A young
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Categories:
slice of life, america, people, travel,
Form: Free verse
A Slice of Life a Day In the Life Part 2
A slice of life / a day in the life
Out in the elements – almost every day, training,
weather, sunshine, cloudy – B. C. fate – raining.
Seventy five reps, twenty times over my head,
on my back, thirty bench presses I’m fed
then onto twenty curls and I’m dead.
Then it has come time for abstaining
from all my physical
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Categories:
slice of life, life, planet, universe,
Form: Rhyme
A Slice of Life
When Ego, with his narcisstic sense,
Wants to be held high in regard,
He uses brickstones of Self-confidence
To build himself a tall pedestal
—that others may see
there on top
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Categories:
slice of life, introspection, life,
Form: Couplet