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Stop And Smell The Roses Poems - Poems about Stop And Smell The Roses

Premium MemberSmell the roses

...Smell the roses

When you’re in an awful hurry and haven’t time to spare
And everything’s a worry you’re rushing here and there
While all the jobs are piling up, there’s dishes in the sink
You h...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, cheer up, cool,
Form: Rhyme

Embodying the Light

...My bones, my mind, my love doth know
For the sun’s light come after the crow
Of a rooster proudly doing his duty
Rising each morning, to a new beauty

Colors dance and leap across the sky
I wak...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme



Bee Careful

...Stop and smell the roses 
but be careful
for you may get stung. 
For those bees 
are not known for their taste 
so you could be the unlucky one....
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, humor,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberWhen the Magic Spell has Broken a Song

...When the magic spell is broken and the fog begins to lift. 
And the heat of the day breaks through and clarity is no longer adrift. 

The damp quickly dries and the light erases doubt. 
No longer...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, heartbreak, love, magic, rose,
Form: Lyric

Premium MemberLife's Highway

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Speeding along life's highway
With the scenery flashing by
Must stop and smell the roses
There's more than meets the eye

We miss the tiny intricacies 
Subtleties that mean so much
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, life,
Form: Rhyme



Premium MemberWhen the Magic Spell Is Broken

...When the magic spell is broken and the fog begins to lift.
And the heat of the day breaks through and clarity is no longer adrift.

The damp quickly dries and the light erases doubt.
No longer in...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, analogy, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberFloral Print

...Stop and smell the roses even if they aren't there
Stop and smell the flowers even if they are dead or bear
Stop and smell the roses because each petal has a different scent and every curve is a ma...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, blessing, creation, encouraging, flower,
Form: Free verse

I Took Time

...I took time
By Michelle Morris
29/07/2022

I took time to stop and smell the roses
I took time to take care of me
I took time to enjoy the moments
I took time to understand the meaning

I to...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, blessing, courage, encouraging, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme

Premium MemberLove Is All We Need

...I always felt like life ought to have larger meaning than I'd ever be able to attribute. Raised in a former Soviet republic by a single parent whose primary, righteously so, goal was to build my char...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, childhood, life, love,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHere I Go Once Again Falling In Love

...Three months ago, I never had any thoughts 

About, love, loving someone, or being in love, 

They say a good love is one that sits you down, gives you a drink of water, and pats you on top of th...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, allusion, anger, anxiety, appreciation,
Form: Blank verse

Premium MemberBefore the End of Night

...Leave it hanging in the stars leave it round the bend 
sometimes forgetfulness can be a real God send 

Entrust  it to the moon above to an ocean full of Grace 
velvet memories, regrets, evaporat...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, appreciation,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberYour Strongest Day

...Your strongest day is standing
just outside your door. Let it in.

Each day the sun comes home to you 
it whispers with the wind
calling out your name.

This is no video game.

Life’s a bouq...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, adventure, character, courage, identity,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Flower Within

...My flower lies within, a sight that few have seen.
Protected and hidden by sharp thorns and leaves of green.
An innocence ripped away at a very early age.
My flower's locked away in a cold and lon...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, sad,
Form: Rhyme

Letting the Cat Out of the Bag

...Being afraid for something you do not know
Is like honouring a promise that was never made
Being excited for someone else good fortune
Is like cheering, sitting on the bench

Start, stop and sme...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, fantasy, future, voice,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOur Last Day

...If we knew today was our last day…
If we knew tomorrow was the end of our bloom
what would we do
how would we act
what would we say…
and to whom?

Would we sprinkle words of love a little free...
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Categories: stop and smell the roses, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Verse

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