The Killers of Happiness
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The Killers of Happiness
Psychologists didn’t want my life, because I love God
They didn’t want my life here.– I respect the ancient past
The modern psychology tramples my life, because I love...
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Categories:
tramples, fate, life,
Form: Free verse
Billionaires hunker down in their Queenstown bunker lairs
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Let’s pester Uncle Fester
After dafter Luxon
Pushed the button
Welcomed every glutton
To the isles of mutton
Theme of the meme
Team New Zealand
It does seem
No longer a
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Categories:
tramples, money,
Form: Rhyme
The Adventure Called Life
...How far we seem to climb
Just to fall down the other side
But we will climb the next mountain
Trying to find where we belong
How deep we dive down
Before we realise we can't breathe
But we wi...
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Categories:
tramples, deep, desire, life, truth,
Form: Free verse
Where Are They Now?
...In this country
Politicians line their pockets from back-door deals
Sports figures kneel with raised fist, and protest our flag
Hollywood celebrities exclaim they will leave our country
Sil...
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Categories:
tramples, corruption, humanity, march, meaningful,
Form: Free verse
GIVING WHEN IT HURTS
...True generosity isn’t measured by what we give with ease,
but by what we sacrifice in silence, unseen,
when the help we offer strips something from us.
It’s easy to be generous when nothing is los...
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Categories:
tramples, blessing,
Form: Free verse
The Chaos In My Heart
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Splitting open the rough rocky ledge of my garden,
a sapling grows at the edge of the broken pathway.
A lone bud blooms unnoticed with the color of spring
within my heart with the alluring ...
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Categories:
tramples, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse
Igniting Divine Light
...“I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” (Spoken by Jesus) -John 8.12, NIV
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Categories:
tramples, god, inspirational, jesus, life,
Form: Free verse
Rattle
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In light industrial units, sheet-metal roofs
ping under the rising heat of the sun.
Sounds of tin stretched into rhythm.
He tumbles out of a fuzzy dream
tramples over himself, sucks in
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Categories:
tramples, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Fractured innocence
...The midnight hour,a lonely road
She walks alone
A ping she hears- it's from her phone:
"Where are you?"Mum asks in a worried tone.
"Almost there",she texts, moving fast,
Not caring how much ti...
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Categories:
tramples, death, horror, murder,
Form: Prose
rich man's blue
...Rich man’s blue
A problem when a person meets someone
seriously, they lose their logical sense when
the rich person speaks to them or smile
They are ready to agree that the person says
is th...
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Categories:
tramples, age, beautiful, beauty, children,
Form: Blank verse
When shall we learn to recognize the truth
...When shall we learn to recognize the truth
That we are being preyed upon by beasts
Whose sugared words are not enough as sooth
For our wounds that rather increase like yeasts?
How many roads or b...
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Categories:
tramples, political, society,
Form: Sonnet
Shrinking World
...Safety, comfort, food and offspring
Is that all they need ? Could be!
Doggies bark, the birdies sing
Feeling happy, they can’t see
Anything that spreads disturbance
Evil species of wrong kinds
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Categories:
tramples, sorrow, world,
Form: Rhyme
Wanting What You Cannot Have
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You are the dusk that masquerades as first light.
In the stillness of descending twilight,
your spellbinder's expectorant
opens the passageways of the feeble,
weevles like a ...
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Categories:
tramples, art,
Form: Rhyme
Sliding to the First Day
...It is summer,
and the umbrella men
are selling hotdogs.
A good-looking priest
enters Saint Pat's,
gangly girls giggle,
then make the sign of the cross.
Thursday is All-You-Can-Eat pizza da...
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Categories:
tramples, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Crows Are Singing
...Now it is dark January and the crows are singing.
A river runs through my heart,
where thoughts drown too soon.
My mind plucks old green hats,
out of the frosted air.
the hats belong to dead l...
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Categories:
tramples, poetry,
Form: Free verse
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