Positive Choices for Love and Happiness
...Sometimes a person will try to find happiness and decide for themselves to become happy.
Later they realize they had made a positive choice as the person they wanted to be close to reciprocated the...
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Categories:
treasuring, appreciation, love,
Form: Pastoral
Abstain's Scion
...As I wander across the arid dunes
Singing along, stringing along the ghastly glacial tunes
Sinking in the sands of debility
Saddled on a ride filled with sanguinity
Pondering, contemplating, desp...
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Categories:
treasuring, anxiety, identity,
Form: Free verse
Treasure
...We do not speak out of our own strength,
Rather it's a response.. the word of God makes,
He gives us the keys of authority to speak against fear,
And the word of God speaks loud and clear,
Our vo...
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Categories:
treasuring, beautiful, blessing, deep,
Form: Light Verse
Calling The Future
...Living
poetic
Treasuring
feelings
Wrapping each
moment
In letters
of sound
Freeing the
silence
Words deep
within me
Calling the
future
Where verses
— resound
(The New Room: Febru...
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Categories:
treasuring, freedom, future, words,
Form: Rhyme
Looking Ahead Again
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Wrote a poem just four years ago
reminding myself how I must grow.
Entitled it then "Looking Ahead";
Each year, new verse I add to that thread.
“Looking inward in 2-O-2-2.
a more intentional...
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Categories:
treasuring, 11th grade, remember,
Form: Rhyme
I AM NOT NEW pidgin
...I'M NOT NEW::
This is ANDERSON WALKINGSHOES...
VERSE 1:
Anything wey concern mai haus,you already sabi,
if i build you a castle for mai dream,
you'll still refuse to cope,
treasuring you go d...
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Categories:
treasuring, analogy, angel, inspiration,
Form: Lyric
Its a liar made so we spin
...I am the Ouroborus of trauma
Thorned scales of each red flag
So add them up and feed me my flaws
Among clutter in a hand me down bag
Let's laugh as I divulge my wounds
I look a man but the bo...
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Categories:
treasuring, anxiety, art,
Form: Rhyme
Serendipity
...His intrinsic calamity of calmness
burning down my bugbears
meticulous admirer that you are
lifting me through the stairs of Arcadia
with this brutal force of ocean’s nature,
re-reading the soli...
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Categories:
treasuring, cute, feelings, flying, happy,
Form: Free verse
Sifting Sands
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Treasuring every moment left
waking hours become minutes
become seconds, sands of time
sifting through our fingers and
the very sinews of our beings
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Categories:
treasuring, destiny, time,
Form: Free verse
Three Sister Winds
...Three sister winds,
Ephemeral progeny,
Spawned by the sun's relentless
But passionless heat,
And the earth's inexorable
Grinding rotation:
Sirocco dances across the vast emptiness of the...
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Categories:
treasuring, nature, wind,
Form: Free verse
Worship
...Author Dana Redricks
December 24, 2023
In the depths of our souls, a worship hole resides, longing to offer praise to God, where our spirit abides.
Yet, we wander the world, seeking to fill the...
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Categories:
treasuring, christian, deep, desire, faith,
Form: Free verse
To My First Dog
...To My First Dog
Long asleep in your unknown grave,
My companion, loyal and beloved
Throughout my youth’s growing years,
You cannot know nor now see
How you do still bring tears to me
With ...
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Categories:
treasuring, grief, imagery, peace, pets,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
All the Good Things In Life
...What's the most important thing in life
It's love love sweet love
There's nothing else has even comes close
More than anything else above
Call me an over-the-hill silly old duffer
But ...
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Categories:
treasuring, happiness,
Form: Rhyme
Silence
...When the words were intense
and the soul no longer
conceded to comfort
Thoughts got blind
and the heart beats in tension
Silence
*****
Absent are ardent
words
an inability to fill gaps ...
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Categories:
treasuring, beauty, emotions, heart, heartbroken,
Form: Free verse
Family, My Safe Place
...I believe in a sovereign Father God,
His Son, Jesus' virgin birth
the Holy Spirit - these three I applaud.
I believe God has a family plan
safe place for a husband and wife
creating children a...
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Categories:
treasuring, 11th grade, children, dad,
Form: Tristich
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