Life Villanelle Poems

All this fuss to fix my brain
Screen line beeps to prove my life
What a mess to make me sane

Back down in this bed I’m chained
Nurses...

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The path is lost where wild winds press, 
No compass holds beneath the sky— 
We walk alone through wilderness. 

The thorns of time, the weight...

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I lose something at every step towards the future,
I don’t know what or may just not remember,
but I lose it evermore at every step

I can’t...

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The God of all creation loves you most.
Family, friends and neighbors love you too.
You are His masterpiece, and Heaven's boast.

Our self-defeating lies are so morose!
The...

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"Fool," said my Muse to me; "look in thy heart and write."

            ...

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Blessed by Jupiter adorned by Saturn,
reckless and just a bit larger than life;
For desire and a little fire we yearn;

So much of the Universe left...

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Names, gestures, and words so oft are empty
In actions, we find a true meaning worthy to knife
To grow is to walk a serene valley you...

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Each day a lesson, sun sets and sun will rise,  
Time we embrace, with courage to ascend,  
To be or do better, with...

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“Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart—poisoned as it is with pride and pain—and replacing it with his own....

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I wonder why these words are short
When they should have been rather long,
That, we have fair time to abort.

Fine, we’re not in judicial court,
Nor are...

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I am the tundra barren cold and numb
A frozen wasteland where no light can reach
Between these poles, my insatiate self-succumbs.

In icy silence where no whimpers...

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I know here and there I stand 
    to surmount a hurt of unknown 
   differences, if not something bad....

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Soundless words, pierce, then flow
Like the wind, whose story God wrote
Restless dreams whisper their glow

Joy stirs the music, the songs who know
He restores souls with...

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Know, life’s no length of happiness,
Imbued ‘tis in uncertainty,
Life’s little but imperfectness.

What defines life is fleetingness--
An artwork drawn on sands of sea,
Life is no length...

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Live each tick for eternity,
Happiness is not to live long,
Nor yet to live in certainty.

Wants and wishes make vanity
And turn joys to a tasteless song,...

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