Gifts That Lie Untaken
Honest as the night is long
eyes that have no holes and teeth that never show.
Sinews Strewn in Straw-like manner making Shadow Men
whose bellies all lie lit with ash of Golden Yearnings.
Crawling on this dangerous beach searching for strings
and springs of learning; bubbles and froth, to tend their unmet reach.
Distant distilled feelings gathering Storms
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Categories:
untaken, america, blessing, christian, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Pictures Left Untaken
If I could develop the images and pictures in my mind,
if I could turn back the hands of time, oh what a story they would tell.
Only if I knew than, what I do know.
How could I have known, that you would
be a memory in my mind, how was I to know
what would become
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Categories:
untaken, allusion, blessing, creation, future,
Form: Narrative
Untaken Chance
.
Shrugging it off,
believing she eventually
would,
he passed up on
a chance to be truly
understood.
Meantime, fond
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Categories:
untaken, girlfriend-boyfriend
Form: Tail-rhyme
Untaken Opportunities
May the narrative of your life
be one likened to the torrents
of a creek surging eagerly
against the rocks and boulders,
bubbling, gurgling, splashing
down the slopes - -
so gleefully!
May it not be a woeful account
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Categories:
untaken, introspection, life, philosophy, may,
Form: Tail-rhyme
Untaken Advice - 2002
She can't remember a woman who gave her ever so great advice
Instead of taking it, she risked her life on a dice
She told her how to respect and love herself in her youth
She didn't tell her what to do; it was her decision to choose
She warned her of dangers of the streets and drugs
She warned
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Categories:
untaken, angst, death, health, life,
Form: Didactic