LABOR OF LOVE THOUGHTS ON AWARNESS OF THE NEEDS OF SELF AND THOSE OF OTHERS
...LABOR OF LOVE THOUGHTS ON AWARENESS OF
THE NEEDS OF SELF AND THOSE OF OTHERS
Hey there, where you are now, I feel more than you can know;
In my life’s time, I too, have been there many times b...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, encouraging, identity, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Conductor
...I've always been told to let go and let God
Which is faith driven and challenging.
As an imperfect human, I will admit that I still sometimes, do not.
Today, I heard a wise man say
Music is nois...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, deep, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Backward is forward
...Wake
The ever present enemy
Overbearing and oppressively
Shadowing expectantly
As forethought always secondly
Two minds hang suspended be
Interrupting thoughtlessly
Relentless and attentiv...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, conflict, depression, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
Angles
...If only angles could be calculated by degrees of truth,
Counted along perpendicularities measured by parallel reasons.
If only spheres were round,
Found amongst the globes hovering in the heaven...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, america, analogy, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
A Lonely-Child Stranger Dancing Near The River
...{"I want to be at arm's length of people because I have met you. You reflect on what I believe and disbelieve.
You introduce me to a sacred hollow shallow cage you call your childhood home.
Howev...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, absence, abuse, addiction, anger,
Form: Free verse
We live to die to live
...I'll admit that sometimes I still get a little depressed
Since I know everything, I have Will one day come to its end
In any second
With any given breath
Which usually begs my question Have I don...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, life, meaningful,
Form: Rhyme
Kindness
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Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. - Billy Graham
As a child, with self in mind, my tears would fall
On a stone paved ground…
Ex...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, appreciation, blessing, christian, encouraging,
Form: Free verse
Sea Glass
...You were new and unguarded,
Thoughtlessly discarded -
You gave yourself for what?
Broken and badly shaken,
Used once and forsaken,
You could only cut.
A lifetime later, found, -
Your s...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, adventure, girl, heartbreak, life,
Form: Rhyme
The Lone Lover of Mine
...Venting thoughtlessly by your side all over once more
Bending over backwards just to simply open up and soar
Again, the line between us has been crossed far too many times
The lone lover of mine d...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, beautiful, endurance, muse,
Form: Lyric
Anger- POTD
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‘Anger is one letter short of danger.’
Excess of it, our life can endanger.
Anger when grown into aggression and violence,
Works in vicious ways and is a great malaise
It fosters ha...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, anger, relationship, violence,
Form: Rhyme
One Wild Flower
...A wild flower, grew up through
a crack in the pavement, I wondered,
why already not trampled
by so many preoccupied feet?
Sat I down on a
park-bench, further pondering this yellow
charmer,...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, courage, cute, emotions, endurance,
Form: Free verse
La Unwindin’ Mind ove Mine
...Took a breath
Of your death
Upon my tongue…
Burnt a lung…
In the process
Of my hopeless state
I’m making progress
As of late, as of late
So young and awkwardly long
I can’t believe I don’t...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, conflict, courage, emotions, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
Think First
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Think First
Miracle Man
1/16/2024
Occasionally deep thoughts I’ve chosen to say,
and later these thoughts have brought me dread.
Previously hidden things, they usually betray,
and...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, mum,
Form: Quatrain
The great forgotten
...25 November 2023 3:06 pm
Looking through the overgrown past
Leaning monuments built to last
Names and dates covered with lichen and moss
Beer cans and wrappers thoughtlessly tossed
Overtu...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, death, life,
Form: Rhyme
Dolce Far Niente
...Overweighed by stresses and strains, like a wrecked ship, I move,
Yet, like a weighed-down donkey, burdens on me I approve;
I perform my work, like a worn-out machine, unthinking,
Preoccupied with...
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Categories:
thoughtlessly, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme
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