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#1331

Poems to Enlighten

Life's lessons


~~Poems to Enlighten Dear Lord; God, Please help me to relay your significant message.  Clear me for your divine light to shine through. I must absolve myself to let the creative force do its...

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#1332

Longing to find

I wrote this for my wife


I want u to know my love for u is ever so deep.

And know ill always a hold u if f u weep.

I love u more then just a friend. 

In this poem its true...

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#1333

5 Senses Of Missing You


I still feel your breath On my neck while I sleep I can't remember the last time Someone made me feel so weak I still hear your voice In my ear while i...

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#1334

MY LAST ELEGY

Life is not fair, it affects ones choice, expectations, interesting and good living. When a child from a low background is growing in fear for wealth and grew not wealthy thoughts always swoosh his...

 MY LAST ELEGY           - Ogbenigho .A. Godstime

 

What worth a life? What could add life?

These tears drippings in me now

As been there when was alive

Foes never let finished work

Some stanza still remains

And topic not yet...

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#1335

Ravens

This poem describes the observations of ravens as they swirl in the local streets.


They watch the shadows by day

Crowding trees and city streets

Stalking and preying

An organized session choreographed

A haunted flock they slowly emerge

To eat souls and ask for penance

Only to dot the streets collectively

Hoarding in winter's dim...

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#1336

Catharsis


I see it being built, in the eyes in a mirror reflecting the house inside made by bricks, woods, and stones replaced by the fires of guilt. Caught in the echo of the...

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#1337

The Dreary Faceless


He watches the rain that falls unwitting Of the people who shall scatter before it. And he sees the people who treat their minds To whatever may repose it. For he's met all kinds of shady...

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#1338

Drought

I was inspired by Henry David's Thoreau's Walden's Pond. Life as Thoreau describes it seems so unobtainable in the pace of our world today. As a result, we consume earthly pleasures to distract ourselves...
Walden Pond parched by revelry’s sponge Consumption’s bosom lures my spirit from purpose But I justify it. To survive. Is living distracted really to live?

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#1340

Everything Was okay..


Everything was okay.. Everything was okay, until I laid my head to sleep. I thought I’d cleared the depths of hell, but then I woke up in the flames. There she stands,...

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