Butterflies
...Spring time finds butterflies
Dancing in a garden of flowers
The gentle breeze is the music
They flutter on for hours
They are all costumed
In their finest dresses
Softly colored by petal...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Live In Each Season As It Passes
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Inspired by Henry David Thoreau
Live In Each Season As It Passes, For nothing is ever so sure
Only that time is fleeting, and Death is never too far
Breathe the Air for to Breathe is to li...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
A ways to go
...Ever heard the wind blow
In the middle of the night?
And watch the moon fade from view,
Taking with it all its light?
Then wake in the morning
Underneath a sky of gray,
Wishing you'd held on to...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, life,
Form: Rhyme
Once in a lifetime
...In the country sides embrace, he wandered alone,
His spirit heavy, his heart turned to stone.
A homeless poet with dreams untold,
Longing for love in a world so cold.
But one fateful day, a lig...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, grief, journey, lost love,
Form: Free verse
Seize the Day
...You look at things differently when you are old
And should do things when you have the chance,
For maybe you won’t get to act on the plans
You have made way too far in advance.
Surely some oppo...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, age, life,
Form: Rhyme
39 Minutes
...39 minutes
That is all that I have left
Before me
Not one minute more
I spent my life
Thinking time is precious
Time is fleeting
So I must hold on
But now I realize
It eludes my grasp
N...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, death, time,
Form: Free verse
A Promise Worth Making
...A promise worth making
Is a promise worth keeping,
The vows made by liars
Simply aren’t worth your weeping.
The risk that you’re taking
Is a blessing fate’s reaping,
For a promise worth makin...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, friendship, life, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
live for today
...and what you don't know
can hurt you
time is fleeting
time is fickle
one moment everything is wonderful
the next the sky is falling
nothing is given nothing is free
we can't take life for gr...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, appreciation, time, today,
Form: Free verse
Between Reality and Understanding
...A thought arose...
In Hegel's great dialectic cotillion,
Time transcends as the Absolute emerges,
From deep submersion.
Veritably idealistic path to verity.
It is all about History!
While S...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, introspection, philosophy, psychological, word
Form: Free verse
Carpe Diem
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Seize the moment,
Seize the day,
Time is fleeting
So they say.
Time is flying,
Time is flowing
Onward to the sunset,
In an instant 'twill be going.
Do not rage
Against the torrent,
T...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, life,
Form: Carpe Diem
Thinking Out Loud 2
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Thinking Out Loud 2
Miracle Man
4/12/2024
Each year is a chapter that remains
to be written.
Time is fleeting and by past events
we’re oft smitten.
Years will make up the book ...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, books, life,
Form: Couplet
Firstborn
...My first and only son,
Precious blood of my blood,
What can I give to you
To prepare you for this life?
There is so much I want to show you—
So many things to see, and hear, and feel,
So many...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, father son, life,
Form: Free verse
The Funeral Urn
...“we look for that that does not come and go
it cannot be organic form, subject to decay
thoughts and beliefs are fickle, how little we know
yet come what may, our inner child continue...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, allusion, analogy, appreciation, character,
Form: Concrete
Miracle Man Musings
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Miracle Man Musings
10-11-2023
Sitting in the woods before dawn’s break,
I hear small feet rustling in the leaves.
Morning is nippy causing me to shake,
not a morning to have worn sh...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, blessing, change, god, poetry,
Form: I do not know?
Whispers of the Heart
...Written: August 17, 2023
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Some sigh, as gentle breeze signs.
Guiding us to where true beauty lies,
From the heart, they...
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Categories:
time is fleeting, analogy, appreciation, art, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
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