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Living to enjoy the little joys. Taking it a step at a time.

  February 2022     10 hours ago

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Dancing King

The king dances naked in the city center
Prancing at the ka-ka -ka-ka, pap-pap and boom sounds

 of rifles and missiles!
Joined in a massacre jig by allies…
Hopping unceremoniously to the tune of war!

Tone deaf to the cries and shouts for ...

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The Cost of a Head

Heads sprawled everywhere...
Small heads, big heads,
Women’s heads, children’s heads,
Forming a pyramid of sorrow.
Eyes barely shut,
Tears of blood streaking down
Ruddy cheeks of infants
Who will never see tomorrow.


 “Off with their...

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Prayer Answered

In this fleeting moment, a prayer finds its way,
Learn to love, learn to live, learn to give each day.
See, it’s not so tough, this journey’s gentle sway.

Embrace grace, inhale favor, and in joy, stay.
Let love’s tender whispers light the...

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Walking Your Path

Until I wore your over sized scrawny shoes…

 Scuttling through harrowing dark tunnels,

 Dodging bullets and bombs,
I never knew where it pinched.


 Until my roof was scalped...
Like a bald vulture in rain, drenched,
Flapping its wet wings,...

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added 24 days ago
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The Moon seeks Attention

Like a spurned lover, the moon turns from the sun,
Casting its opaque shadow over the earth, its adversary.

 Despised for reflecting light, not emitting its own, It is jeered and taunted.
In anger, it traces a path of totality, Weary of the...

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added 2 months ago
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I love your descriptions of faith...

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Great rhmes and flow...

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"Learn to play on the safe side of true and real," best advice

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I sure pray you're able to turn all your "if you can" to reality

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Same meaning, different words! Thanks for sharing...

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A poem of hope!

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Two flesh, one spirit.... a united front!

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You have made all our hearts a beautiful song with this poem! Thanks for sharing...

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path to our journey is different, hence the story we tell. It's not a competition. I find your poems have substance and depth. Thats why i comment on them.
Please keep sharing as I enjoy reading them. 

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"Chasing what you've lost by living it behind" gives a whole new perspective...

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Nice poem. Your style pushes the boundaries...

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Captivating imagery of two worlds colliding... Thanks for sharing

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Faith & fate, two sides of a coin...

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I like your style. A fable on politics and the unequal distribution of commonwealth....

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A fable that warns one to thread on caution... Great poem. Beautiful told.

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