Bells will jingle
Lights will twinkle
As the holidays roll by
Raise a glass to the past
Ready to be unready
We have mastered the art
Make your resolution for 2022
To keep hope in your heart
Category: Poems
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The key to creativity is not judging what doesn’t exist yet.
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Unready
She found herself
Dipping her toes in
Instead of plunging in
To the dreamlike freedom
She had begged for
An endless impossibility
Slowly and suddenly arrived
She needed a hand to hold
To leap into the new known
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Monday
Monday is the kid in the school yard
Watching all the other days
Get picked for the winning team
Everyone whispering
Monday is the worst
Time to step in
Walk over to Monday
Sit down and say
We got this one kid
You are gonna be great
I’m with you today
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A Breath Taken
Somehow beauty
Feels a little muted
Perhaps the burdens
We carried along our
Freedom trail
Have altered our fabric
A bit more than expected
We are different
Our weary eyes
Beginning to clear
Are the slight shadows
Finally gone from here
Former caged birds
Of thee I sing
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2020 Depression
Hiding under a blanket
Trembling with anxiety
Fighting racing thoughts
Her meds out of reach
Her phone missing
She was terrified
While not a virus
Her medical condition
Could be deadly too
She forced herself
Back to sleep
What else could age do
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If Only
Love is never clear
In its early days
What hope is there now
With nothing but screens
Words and expressions
To attempt to interpret
Barriers to feelings
Dying to evolve
Your heart breaks
Knowing you could
Express it all
In a single instant
At zero feet apart
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Unknown
Waiting for the call
To unlock the answer
Was your worry justified
Trying to think positive
Praying for a negative
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No Words
Dating was never easy
To clearly define
In its early days
What hope is there now
With nothing but screens
With words and expressions
To attempt to interpret
Barriers to feelings
Harbored for too long
Breaking your heart
Knowing just how easily
You could express it all
In a single instant
At zero feet apart
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Mary
She quit drinking
When she was 27
The understated
Rumblings of concern
From friends and family
Hurt her pride enough
For her to decide to stop
A decade later
She is sometimes asked
Why she does not drink
I prefer not to
Is her unbottled
Bartleby response
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Truth
My knees weakening
My fears rattling
My anger brewing
My soul aching
My heart spoke
My truth heard
My world shifted
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Simply Love
Forever dear friends
Who never fell in love
With each other
Simultaneously
They took turns
Being gracious
Not admitting
What they knew
Both got married
To their soulmates
Who they only found
Due to all the ways
They taught each other
About kind and selfless love
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The Held Heart
You can only protect your heart so much
If you hold on to it too tightly
So no one can break it
You will
For the loss of love
You might have felt
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Be
Take a leap into authenticity
Critics be dammed
Friends who flee
Shoo them away
All that you think
Is wrong with you
Would be so right
If you said it out loud
For your fellow misfits
To hear you
Who you will learn
Are everyone who
Is honest with themselves
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Our Date
I wish I marked down the date
You last held me in your arms
I would turn back the pages of my calendar
Find the month and circle the date
Before our evolving love faded
By what could not survive distance
We would have broken our hearts
If we had become an us
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Healing Heart
Your bruised aching heart
Will try to make you harsher
Your bruised ego will try
To fill you with anger and hate
Your broken pride will try
To make you stop feeling
Opt instead for healing
Embrace kindness offered
When your hurt heart is open
You will find its broken pieces
Make their way back together
Evolving into a stronger heart
With no armor or anger
Your brave heart will try again
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Love
All you need is love
Always seemed to me
A painful cliche
Until a little touch of it
Gave me energy
Woke me up early
Gave me a story to tell
Made difficult times
Not so heavy to carry
Maybe is all you need
To breathe easier
Because your worries
Matter to someone else too
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Live your life by intuition and inspiration. Let your whole life be a revelation.
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One morning
I loved him in retrospect
In the soft morning light
Of a misty autumn day
A subtle sudden memory
Granted restless clarity
I wonder if he knew
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Let it Begin
Be kind to the tellers
Of the love story
They are hoping for
You are not a judge
To offer up your verdict
Do not dim those starry eyes
Out of jealousy
Or your own past pain
Grant them hope
For their love story
Even if you think
Their chances are paper thin
During the fragile time
Of a budding romance
You could destroy it
With a few dismissive words
Meet the dream of love
With grace and kindness
No matter how it ends
Give it a chance to begin
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She
In the bluish greenish
Golden sunset of her eyes
Peace unveiled itself
Warmth erased fear
With a sweet soft smile
She healed the cracks
In my broken heart
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Dear celebrities
Dear celebritiesStop making this quarantineAbout your personal brandInstagram storiesOf you without your makeupFrustrated in the kitchen of your mansionAre not relatableYour earnest “stay strong” messagesAre patronizingIf you want to helpAnd get attentionStart a movementWrite a checkTake actionNot for all your “fans”But just for peopleWho are desperately in needNot because it is good PRBut because you have the meansTurn off the cameraJust give it a restI promise it will pay offIn the way you wantWhen this is over
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Unfolding
You realize slowly and suddenly
You need to protect your heart
Only you are behind schedule
You forgot to hit the breaks
You never saw the road
It is probably nothing
Until the slight twinge in your chest
During the too quiet night
That you cannot shake
Tells you what you feel
It is a tale with telling
To a heart like hers
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Love Is
a happiness, a peace, a hope
that awakens a little magic
that sets your days in a slight rosy glow
A belief
In what you knew to exist
on summer nights as a child
what you knew to exist when
the scent of lilacs danced
upon your teenage finger tips
Resting in
the dog eared pages of novels
the lines of a near forgotten poem
the lyric that gives
the music it’s harmony
you are the why
and the we
that makes life
a story worth telling
shine brightly
for those who are
lost in the dark
Grant them
a way to see again
and go searching
for a love of their own
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Today
Small flecks of silver
In my slightly too long hair
Are a reminder
Of how fast it all happened
Numbers ticking up
Increased social distancing
Strict safety guidelines
Inequality unmasked
Will the immediacy
Of quickly cut checks
Grant him a slick pair of gloves
For his blood stained hands
Psychologists say
To stop listening to the news
Limit social media
I cannot oblige
Otherwise I am haunted
By a fear of going blind
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Shakes
To beThat is the answerIn this waking dreamUntil tomorrow comesWithout sound and furyMay we live too wiselyAs the band plays onUntil the dawn breaksMidsummer as we like itMay seem impossibleBut in life one never knowsWhat reality may come
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Us
I was chronically busy
Until I met you
My relentlessness faded
Your presence a lullaby
Calming my forgotten soul
When you gently held my hand
Unexpectedly one night
I finally saw the stars
In the delicate promise
Of our unfolding love
