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You Were Wrong, Dad

...I’d follow in Dad’s footsteps, he presumed.
Post-college, I would join the company
Great Grandpa founded. As the future loomed,
I had to drop the bomb: “Dad, try to see
it's MY life; I have chose...

Categories: unacclaimed, conflict, father son,
Form: Rhyme

Once

...Hidden in spaces of my heart
Are your charm and eyes that glow
Knowing I can’t be apart--
From all that gives me fire of life

But now those glances turn away,
Turn away, when morning break...

Categories: unacclaimed, devotion, relationship,
Form: Lyric

Tell Me Why

...You slipped away
leaving me stranded
in the windy cold; lonesome,
feeling not a smidge of warmth.

I waited for you, and waited...
thinking you'...

Categories: unacclaimed, confusion, deep, emotions, loneliness,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Life's Purpose

...From this heart, a vision of compassion 
glistens through my open window;
as scenes across a half-lit room
play like endless vignettes when eve softens:
Withim my gaze, I trace each act unfol...

Categories: unacclaimed, caregiving, life,
Form: Light Verse

Like 'Dancing On the Ceiling'

...I meander as a lonely cloud 
That drifts on the horizon
All alone now love has gone 
It’s really no surprise then

Drifting in and out of life
From the outside looking in
Even friends and fami...

Categories: unacclaimed, i love you, i
Form: Rhyme

Tainted Prayers

...I have heard prayers of others that, not only could  I not pray, but what I heard made me squirm.  These are dear and good people, and I feel that their hearts are in the proper place with the Lord. ...

Categories: unacclaimed, christian, prayer,
Form: Prose

Acclaimed Poet

...The unacclaimed poet broke it down like this: if your words cause their eyes to fill with tears and stretches their imagination beyond comprehension; if it promotes a desire to love as if they're car...

Categories: unacclaimed, poetry, writing,
Form: Free verse

Sunlight Bliss

... ~~

     At a particular time of each bright, cloudless day,
          throughout bitter winter's cold weather;
close to three in the afternoon or very near to that,
               ...

Categories: unacclaimed, sunshine, winter,
Form: Verse

Unsung Hero

...Trite foot soldier status lacking
Pedigree earned by under stress not cracking
Anonymous ward of the state with little backing
Nameless face sent into the infernal abyss hacking
On unstated missi...

Categories: unacclaimed, dedicationsoldier,
Form: Rhyme