Shadows
...‘When you are not fed love on a silver spoon, you learn to lick it off knives.’ - Lauren Eden
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Ed had all his father's traits
blue-green soft eyes, r...
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Categories:
untaught, fate,
Form: Suzette Prime
The Taste of Language
...The taste of language is like a pudding with countless varieties,
A sense of togetherness,
A home away from home.
The taste of language reflects the beauty of culture,
The pride of our ...
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Categories:
untaught, beauty, culture, language,
Form: Free verse
I will not leave untaught
...I will not leave untaught,
With what color freedom shines.
Not a stranger on this Earth,
But a citizen of the whole planet.
And as truths unfold,
What you feel freedom is, on this corner of the ...
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Categories:
untaught, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Life
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LOVE speaks in millions of untaught languages
I was bathed in the love of my grandmother
FAMILY, faith, and friends; the music of life
EMPTINESS in life needs only to make room for love...
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Categories:
untaught, life, love,
Form: Acrostic
Spontaneity
...The vibrancy of the rich hued kaleidoscope
Across the firmament,
Wide open eyes ~ a pantomime unexpected
A child’s innocent smile
Free from taint and defilement
Touching its cheeks with a lot ...
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Categories:
untaught, life, perspective,
Form: Free verse
Spreading Happiness
...Spreading happiness is the need of the hour;
Practising it requires so much of willpower.
Redressing others’ problems is always fine;
Empowering the weak at all times is a good sign.
Accepting pe...
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Categories:
untaught, happiness, joy,
Form: Acrostic
A Darker Thought Mattered
...The light promises to fade
As the dark encompass do we try to see
There are doubts we cannot just shake
How shadows only tease for what could be
It is easy with the aid of light
Be it hard tru...
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Categories:
untaught, life, self,
Form: Rhyme
Anachronistic Utterances
...It is said that the world is quite strong.
When we both agreed, we were wrong.
But systemic risk leads to a spare call.
And it makes life hazy, as we shall.
When weak surfeit ful...
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Categories:
untaught, analogy, character, encouraging, truth,
Form: Free verse
Brains
...Why do our brains have thoughts?
Some things we are not taught,
Our brains came from God,
Still evolving, soar or plod....
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Categories:
untaught, appreciation, beautiful, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
The Art of Peace
...a skill untaught, a work unfinished; if ever completed---priceless...
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Categories:
untaught, peace,
Form: Monoku
The Book of Life
...The book o’ life teaches man a lot,
But the lessons lie largely untaught.
Many a crucial page
I’d seen folded on edge
Time to read that page oh returned not.
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Categories:
untaught, books, humor, life, teacher,
Form: Limerick
The Changing Power
...With his belly full of whiskey, he is brass, brazen and tough,
cursing his antagonist with words, vulgar and rough.
His displeasure is qualified, as under his breath he swore,
words from a tangled...
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Categories:
untaught, change, christian,
Form: Rhyme
Today
...Untaught vocabulary seems to retard
our insanity multiplied by free speech
which becomes nothing more then
profanity to the public ear when not heard
through the committed
Outsourced, spun and...
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Categories:
untaught, allusion, america, angst, betrayal,
Form: Free verse
Acceptance
...Poems – rhyming or
Free verse – straightforward,
Which paint a picture
That make us laugh or cry,
That strike a chord within us!
Not ordinary! Not untaught
Or unlearned! None of those!
I used...
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Categories:
untaught, appreciation, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Poems About Mothers
...Poems about Mothers
Mother's Smile
by Michael R. Burch
There never was a fonder smile
than mother's smile, no softer touch
than mother's touch. So sleep awhile
and know she loves you more...
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Categories:
untaught, child, children, love, mother,
Form: Rhyme
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