A shadowed twin
A whispering echo beneath my skin
In silent moments you softly creep
Disturbing the solace of my sleep
A phantom presence unseen yet near
Feeding doubt and nurturing fear
Through daylight hours you cloud my sight
Turning clear skies into an endless night
An inconspicuous burden heavy to bear
An unseen tether always there
Guiding my thoughts down dark pathways
Where comfort is fleeting and sanity strays
No refuge found or safe retreat
From the ceaseless sound of your beat
In crowded rooms I'm still alone
Haunted by my phantom clone
Attempts to flee are all in vain
You’re always residing in my brain
A lifelong bond I can't bend
My hidden foe and closest friend
You, Yes you!
Who you truly are?
What your true desires are?
What fear do you hold in you?
Let your words be you
when you speak.
Whatever you do
Don't pretend you're not you!
Just be you and play it cool.
No one can be you and
You can't be anyone either!
Only you can be you.
By being you, Yes You!
You will find more success
And never have to worry
about what you confess.
Don't go pretending to be someone
That is who you are not.
The real you is the one
Who you should let people see.
Love who you are and
Do what you love.
If others don't like the way
You are; Why do you care?
You, Yes You!
Are bright and beautiful
Just the way you are!
You are uniquely you...
UNIQUE
Why I
Well technically I am and always have
and will be considered
Odd
So I suppose in essence
Maybe in reality in fact I actually am
As Odd is Unique
Isn't it
So Yes
Thanking you Sincerely
Kind Regards
Maybe now it's time for me
To own my own individual
Oddly Uniqueness
Some of the elements of our personality
Are developed while still in the womb
Being evinced from the moment of our birth
It is this innate magnetism that draws us,
First, to our mother’s breast, then develops
Who and what we are, in family, in friendships,
Becoming a singular entity, unlike anyone,
Attracted, in likes and dislikes, to another.
What makes us personable? Desirable?
To be sure, no other surpasses our selfness
For we are without an equal in our reality--
Innate magnetism making me uniquely me.
Written October 16, 2022
Submitted to “Innate Magnetism” Poetry Contest
Sponsored by Unseeking Seeker
M-essage
A-bout
R-apture
I-s
A-iming
T-o
H-ave
E-xcellent
R-egards
E-mploying
S-weetness
A-s
Q-uote
U-niquely
I-nspires
N-egating
T-he
O-ngoing
S-orrow
Topic: Birthday of Maria Theresa Quintos (December 08)
Form: Vertical Monocrostic
Is Uniquely Qualified
What we have found out;
Is uniquely qualified;
Writes fantastic poems.
Jim Horn
Look at me
I am special
I am unique
I am different
I am strange and I cannot change
But yet I am free, I get to be me
I am not scared nor do I like to be compared
In this life I was born to be prepared
I am awesome
Everyday I grow and blossom
So why can't you learn to appreciate me
I am extraordinary
I am definitely not ordinary
I am a gift
I am one of a kind
I may have a disorder but I love order
I learn through taste, texture and smell
Body movements are very important to me
I rock, I flick, I flap
I make strange noises
I cannot be anything else but me
In your world I am seen as disable
But in mines, I am very much able
I am free
I am gifted
I am bless
I have been given an opportunity
To be nothing else but me.
People do not know how you feel.
They say they do, but they don’t.
Our feelings are uniquely our own;
you have yours, I have mine,
And some I have not even been named yet.
Today I had coffee-face feeling;
Some may not understand, but I do.
I had feelings of being constricted by a large snake
Between my chest and my tummy I was being squeezed
Tighter and tighter; without relief.
If there is a feeling word for that,
I don’t know it.
I had a feeling I had better send a loving email.
It was one of my strongest feelings,
So I did it.
I always react to my feelings,
But they are mine.
Not yours.
Don’t tell me you know how I feel.
You don’t.
There is no reason to follow the world's system. To hear them say go this way or that.In doing so there is so much you are really missing.
Much of you really could be hiding.Not putting together what is uniquely you.You have a reason for being here, to that reason you must be true.
In creation there are no robots or clones.Our creator expects you to be you alone.
You have inside you hidden and usable gifts.Reaching down our creator chooses in you to uniquely live.
So no matter what they say, no matter what they do, no one knows your design and life's purpose better than you.Reach out to the creator and to him this prayer pray. Ask him to help you be uniquely you and improved each and every day.
Angela Poppert
Author Dana Redricks
March 16, 2017
I am uniquely and wonderfully made
an original designed
I am bold and gift wrapped in
the beauty of God’s love
I am uniquely made
Not made to fit into a mold
I was made by the master builder
I cannot be duplicated
I am gifted
And I am lifted above my circumstances
I am unique and more valuable
than fine wine
I am unique and made to shine
Deconstructed ideas of a maniac has me perplexed
The gears are turned counterclockwise
A backwards internal clock tells time differently
Thoughts that should not be understood
Visions that cannot be pictured
Analyze them not, but respect their genius
Uniquely United
My favorite people are humans. Humanity is our unity.
Funnily it is the shame of sham that shampoo runs away down a drain. Oh dear. What an absolute disaster for the many supporting bottles bearing differing names. Nevertheless it is the revered gel that will last in its cast of sachet. No problems with dressing up an updo update upon upcoming uniqueness. Dares to be a giant hippopotamus in a bathing suit waving. Wave back then. Go on or he or she will be unhappy. Oh dear. Oglala's originals organised organs. No keyboards though. Standing sipping seeding seedlings. Stew. Hahahaha and boiled boilers booking. Hahahaha mystified parrots peering. Hahahaha and an onion skin eating its breakfast. *** unification z
A little porcupine in the midst of hungry pythons;
her quills are a danger to each attempted swallow;
trouble grows tall from the moment she existed;
And once upon a time, in six days a gang is conquered by her might.
She’s characterized by waters so low,
from the dead one to the Sea of Galilee.
She’s an open museum for religious sight seeing
with official mother tongues coming from her own conflicting world.
Her stamp against size zero maidens stood as the first;
she’s the main and king’s banquet hall
for same sex feasts in the entire middle east;
a trail blazer in the voice mail technology
and a breeding town for chess grand masters;
all sums up to the glorious inscription of her crown.
Even with her wonderful friendship with friends quite far
she’s still most hated by those very close.
Precious heart..
Love is Beautiful.. as YOU...
AS God Gives us His Undying Love
Unconditional Love...
Glorious Love.. to endure
Just as God made YOU
as whom you are..
Love's Uniquely made..
Smile.. Love always yours.. ;
As God has made all Uniquely made
Out of His Glorious Love.. Forever Endures..
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