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If I Have Squandered Your Gifts, O Dear Lord

If I have squandered your gifts, O Dear Lord,
     and glorified myself with hoarded wealth;
if I have crucified the Lamb and Word, 
     and planned against my righteous neighbor's health,

then a rebellious son swift to repent
     will not corrupt truth, nor forever break
the

Categories: squandered, death, god, inspirational love,
Form: Sonnet

Squandered Time

Memories worth pearls 
much of my past was wasted.
Until sickness struck 
My soul felt ecstatic now. 
My wife is aware I'm there.

Categories: squandered, analogy, anniversary, appreciation, dream,
Form: Tanka

Extravagance Squandered

Extravagance Squandered
David J Walker

Each in its own bubble as
A singular life
Clinging together in a
Mountain of dirty detergent 
Flowing on turbulent rivers as
A not so well thought out experiment
Meant to cleanse
 it poisons and 
Pollutes everything it touches but
The bubbles meld and grow
Eventually exploding into nothing
With nothing to show but
The residue of extravagance squandered

Categories: squandered, extended metaphor,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Betrayal - a Love Squandered

Thinking back there was a time,
            so very many years ago;
we were young and love was in its prime.
She told me she would always need me so,

Categories: squandered, betrayal, lost love,
Form: Rhyme

Squandered Time

Time of our youth squandered wasted
In vast incomprehensible quantities

Ah to get that time back
To have made the most of 
Those hours days months and years

Curiosity easily converted to passion
With the slightest encouraging push

Expanding the mind always pays off
Transforms futures and opens doors



AP: Honorable Mention 2020

Submitted on September 27, 2018 for contest LINES OF TEN THAT

Categories: squandered, future, inspiration, motivation, passion,
Form: Free verse

A Former Great Nations Squandered Wealth I

Swept up into piles; everywhere 
Abouts; in collected heaps all 
Around.               
It is almost as if the drab 
Streets were strewn with the 
Precious wealth of King Solomon's 
Gold!

Categories: squandered, philosophy, senses,
Form: Rhyme

Squandered

Squandered, wasted, apathetic and distant
These are the words that describe my existence

Invisible, nobody, forgotten, unwanted
I try to move on as though I'm undaunted

Days end in nights alone in the dark!!

Categories: squandered, absence, bereavement, divorce, eulogy,
Form: I do not know?

Squandered Poesy

Squandered inky poetic renderings
blood ensued parchment's apertures
led astray in convoluted evolution
'tween muses fiery premonitions 
and starlit descending skies' envy

Categories: squandered, allegory, allusion, analogy, muse,
Form: Light Verse

Squandered Heart

Bring me salt from your tear stained eyes
to heal my wounds as I realize
that never and forever are similar taunts
making me crazy with a message that haunts.

Once we were new and we played it so well.
Yet in spite of some heaven we landed in hell.
So be gone with your kisses and coal black heart.
My soul

Categories: squandered, betrayal, break up, lost
Form: Rhyme