Tag: poem
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On different limbs.
I imagine RejectionBeing much like a treeWhose limbs sproutIn different directionsOfferingVarious secondary EmotionsWhose leavesCause furtherDisharmony. You’ve hung yourselfOn the branchThat says DepressionWhile I’m stuck On the oneLabelled Anger. I’m using every tool In my boxHack, hack, hacking AwayKnowing the fall Is fatal.Surely,We’d both be saferJust to climbBack down. But I’ll cling to my limbAnd you’ll hang from…
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Answered Prayers.
A Mother’s Day Reflection My son looks at a photo of three smiling faces and asks, “where was I?” The image is incomplete, he feels lost, when he was our missing piece. “You were still a dream,” I tell him. He smiles in reply, satisfied. This dream is real, it has fingers and limbs, a…
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I have.
I have been through the wildernessAnd waitedI have heard the small, still voiceI have had its peaceFill meI have been pulled from the miry clay I have been in the fireAnd I was not aloneI did not burnI was not consumed I have been temptedI have failedAnd I have been redeemed Set free by graceSet…
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thank you.
There is no Thank youFor a job well doneNo hand reaching downTo pull us out of the graveHappiest still -If we stayed buriedFor all our mistakes. What made us thinkWe’d get accolades For doing good on this side of forever? Back bent and wearyIt is not for reward We tirelessly whisperShuffling forward, forging the pathreaching…
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waiting.
What do you do while you’re waiting? While I’m waiting I’ll scroll through the apps / dimly lit on my dark screen / hiding unknown faces from those in line behind me / as if they cared / count how many heads bent over a screen / maybe read a page or two / if…
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a grey rock
A little grey rock is born of the earth. In the sun it finds warmth, it tingles as the rays shine upon it, new found glitter glistens. It is a stable force. When the wind lifts, it holds firm. A strong wind tempts it to rise, like a hurricane plucking homes from the ground. But…
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little joys.
Life is full of little surprisesand tastes of joy -if only we open ourselves up to them. Why, just this morning I was delighted when a cashier asked for my IDI let out a chuckle(I’m sure you would, too)Sure, she could seeand the “19” at the startof my year of birthwould be enoughBut there would…
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CHOOSE.
You do the right thing. You follow the rules. You do all that is asked of you. You do more. You look ahead. You dream of all that could be. You hope. You plan. You smile at the encouragement, the open hands. You soon learn the promises were empty. You take a step back. The…
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steadfast.
SteadfastOr crumbling to defeatThe differencebetweenStaying the course and relentingPowerlessto fear of change.Do we stay the course when the road inclinesgrows roughbeneath our feetOr turn backlooking for a lighter courseone that does not ask for resilience Or Challenge us,demand that we grow.Steadfast – Not an enticing wordStaying the courseNot oft observedBut we dare to wander the…
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Give and Take
I tend to tallyHow much I’ve had to giveLike it is the biggest accountIn history. Forgetting -It is only one side of the equation. One halfOf a pair, Forgetting -How much I take. The takingIs a debt I’m ignorant ofUntil it takes its toll. As I sit on the side of givingI’ll remember what I’ve…
letters and lattes 