Lying, thinking
Last night
How to find my soul a home
Where water is not thirsty
And bread loaf is not stone
I came up with one thing
And I don’t believe I’m wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
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Category Archives: Poems
Still I Rise
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
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Life’s Progress
How gayly is at first begun
Our Life’s uncertain Race!
Whilst yet that sprightly Morning Sun,
With which we just set out to run
Enlightens all the Place.
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When She Walks By
Eyes so dark
Heart so pure
I could never love another
The way I love her
Gleam in her eyes
Like a candles flame
I love when I hear her
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Love Survives
Time to share is always there
I peered thru life
Ever avoiding strife
But now am undone
My barriers broken
For one has found me
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Each Day A Life
I count each day a little life,
With birth and death complete;
I cloister it from care and strife
And keep it sane and sweet.
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A Man In His Life
A man doesn’t have time in his life
to have time for everything.
He doesn’t have seasons enough to have
a season for every purpose. Ecclesiastes
Was wrong about that.
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A Life by Sylvia Plath
Touch it: it won’t shrink like an eyeball,
This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.
Here’s yesterday, last year —
Palm-spear and lily distinct as flora in the vast
Windless threadwork of a tapestry.
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Life is the Body’s Light
Life is the body’s light; which, once declining,
Those crimson clouds i’ th’ cheeks and lips leave shining:-
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I Miss You Mommy
I feel sometimes like I’ve truly lost my way
At times it’s hard to make it through the day
When I have the chance to sit and think
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