Journey Vanity Poems

LA-DI-DA

There’s an honesty in struggle
Despite pressure to overcome
There are others with privilege
That’s sending a clear message
Still felt very strongly by some
With responsibilities to juggle

Fancy Is...

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HEALTHY SENIOR

My mother used to feed me to grow up big and strong
Cauliflower and broccoli, some foods that taste so wrong
How could anyone believe that...

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Please don’t crowd about
While I shout about
To be loud about
What I’m proud about

When you see me go
In my tuxedo
To my gazebo
Atop Mt Ego

You aren’t permitted
Just...

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As I cling on to hope
With all my being.
Refusing to believe
this inevitable inconvenience.  

For what gain does it serve me 
To recognise this pain
Becoming...

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This long or short grotesque shadowy path, 
this dreadful sorrowing sojourn through the vale, 
this burden of ceaseless hope banished at the instance
This thing we...

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It starts with you, an insanely elegant girl
You got my knees weak, I couldn’t speak
Words just slip of my mind and twirl
Stunned, ashamed and sweaty...

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Forsake me my clumsy heart
I have known peace and joy
But held them as a baby held a toy
How foolish a mischief on my part

Daring darling...

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Tell me nothing of "treasures" 
the passing year will teach you wisdom. 

build your walls with marbles, 
and your place with diamonds, 

This gold is...

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A time will come in an instant,
     When all that seemed important;
   Would not need to be told,
As new...

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Old Age

The hours pass like beads on a string;
Each like the other in orderly array.
They march forth in military lines,
Each preceded by another.

The pain comes...

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(Chorus)
You think you've got swagger but really you hobble,
you've got the jet lagger and you're drunk so you wobble,
don't start on me mate 'cus I...

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I often catch a glimpse of my colours and curves in that mirror hung at the back of the room
I’m graceful and charming and I...

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Little child
Your tiny hands hold a little flower
Delicately, you start weaving a story about peace
In your gentleness, you understand how happiness works
It is the sanctuary...

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shall I wake or lie down so that my enemies shall rejoice?
Shall I let them chants victory songs afar in their hiding places?
they mock me...

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We both came
Each alone
One before the other
Like the orderliness of God's seven days

Joyful cries and happy tears
Casts we had become
On this stage
Created in seven days

We...

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