Tag: life

Heaven is Earned 

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Heaven Gained a New Angel by Ieris-Azer

We’re all looking for heaven

Looking for answers inside

Count to ten or eleven

Only then abide.

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Journeys are long wrought with pain

Long perilous rocky climbs

Sometimes feeling all in vain

We must walk our lines.

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Sadness and beauty fill our lives

The contrast can’t be ignored

Journey filled with sharpened knives

Or even a sword.

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The hardest lessons are learned

Walk against the stiffest breeze 

All the while the world still turned

See flowers and trees.

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For later on, we look back 

Seeing how far we have come

Our accomplishments all stacked

And we know we’ve won…

-AAA 12/25/2024

Life And Death and Dreams 

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Life’s a fine line we all walk

Choose careful words when you talk

Many puzzles have been solved

Grow and evolve like corn stalks.

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Death an end or beginning

Live each day, keep on grinning

Don’t waste a single moment, friend

In the end we’re all winning.

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Sleep a chance for us to dream

Some dream awake it may seem

Don’t let hard times make you sink

Enjoy and drink up the cream.

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One day it’ll be over 

Called back like tired soldiers

Knowing this all, surely soothes 

Time moves like endless boulders…

-AAA 12/25/2024

Where Is The Time?

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So many hours to display

Observing the minutes splay

Watching the children play.

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I see each day restart

From the very start

Experience is an art.

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So don’t make a hasty retreat

You’ll likely miss a treat

Or other item might eat.

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The best moments you’ll attract

As your years gain tract

And you’ll know how best to act.

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There’s no need to pretend

Like my many efforts tend

This new poem is at an end…

-aaa

Originally Published 05/13/2024

What Would You Say?

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What do you say to old you from an earlier day?

What do you say?

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What do you say to memories that won’t stay away?

What do you say?

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What do you say the way you used to play?what do you say?

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What do you say how your exes stray?

What would you say?

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What would you say if it was you and not they?

What would you say?

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What would you say if you could forget that day?

What would you say?

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What would you say for the answers you pray?

What would you say?

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What would you say if you’d let old dogs lay?

What would you say?

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What would you say as your hair grows gray?

What would you say?

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What would you say if she decided to stay?

What would you say?

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I know what I’d say I want peace today and leave the past so far away.

That’s what I’d say.

-AAA 05/20/2020

Silent Contemplations 

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What is forever?

I cannot say.

What is never?

Less by one day?

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How far away is far?

Time can only tell.

Can you get there by car, 

or taxi as well?

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How much is too much?

What would be the weight?

Is a lot a bunch?

Tell me don’t hesitate.

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Does love conquer all?

The great poets say so.

We all rise and fall.

As life takes its toll.

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When is enough enough?

Is it less than a lot?

I’m shooting here from the cuff.

Show me what you got. 

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How deep is space?

Astronomers don’t know

Does black matter displace?

Quantum theory think so.

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How difficult is hard?

Can I quantitate?

In this query’s regard,

I must hesitate. 

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When will this poem end?

I think it’ll end now

Thank you for reading my friend

Now go in peace, and how…

-AAA 10/13/2024

Ethos Pathos and Logos 

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I am good 

My words will prove it

Just read them.

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Life is hard 

We’ve all been through much

Making us stronger.

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With each lesson 

Bettering our lives and ourselves

Means living happy.

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A rhetorical triangle

Really drives my point home

Love, learn, live…

-AAA 09/26/2024 

Mastering Life

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When will it be enough

Why must we be so tough.

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Life can be cruel and so unfair 

But it’s worth, beyond compare.

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When we reach, “enough”, we know life’s worth

That’s a big part of our time here on earth.

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The setbacks are the worst 

Likened to unsatisfied thirst.

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Lessons must be learned

Yet the earth must turn.

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Life without strife 

Just wouldn’t be life.

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So when things don’t go your way 

Take pause, meditate, and pray.

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Things can be so much worse

Life’s hardships are not a curse.

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Teaching us what we need to know 

In order to become better and grow.

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Master the lessons and pass the test

And make this lifetime your very best…

-AAA 09/25/2024

All Work and No Play…

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People work themselves to death

Never ending daily grind

Tasking each and everything

Lest falling far behind in a major bind.

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Starts at fifteen or sixteen

In their youth, little regard

Seeking out the greatest time

Not quite the effort for working very hard.

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Time flies and the years rush by

Laziness will not abide

Learn the value of money

Then accomplishments, the wealth of healthy pride.

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Scales now tipped another way

Work becomes out everything

As we mature we work hard

Security and prosperity, now king.

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Those two extremes in our lives

Balance needed that’s the truth

Work and play must coexist

As my life and lessons, are the living proof…

-AAA 09/19/2024

Beauty

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   The heart of beauty

Pearces all the ugliness

   Bright beacon of light 

Drives away all the darkness 

In a very cold cruel world…

-AAA 09/04/2024

Seasons 

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Season of rain 

Ushers in pain.

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Seasons of sun 

Bring about fun.

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Seasons of cold 

Blankets are sold.

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Season of fire 

Fulfilling desire.

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Season of heat 

Radiated street.

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Season of breeze 

Swiftly moving trees.

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Seasons of spring 

Bluebirds sing.

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Season of fear

Will life endear?

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Season of summer

Never a bummer.

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Seasons of love 

Peace of doves.

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Season of salt 

Dinner’s gestalt.

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Season of fall 

Halloween and all.

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Season of pepper 

Sneezing forever.

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Season of hate

Political debate.

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Season of winter 

Frost, crack, splinter.

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Seasons renewed

No year, subdued.

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Seasons do end 

Let’s not pretend…

-AAA 08/31/2024

Butterfly

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Butterfly

Don’t flutter by.

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Butterfly

Stay nearby.

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Butterfly

Hear my sigh.

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Butterfly

Now in the Sky.

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Butterfly

See me cry.

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Butterfly

With misty eyes

I say, goodbye…

-AAA 07/08/2024

Where Is The Time?

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So many hours to display

Observing the minutes splay

Watching the children play.

–

I see each day restart

From the very start

Experience is an art.

–

So don’t make a hasty retreat

You’ll likely miss a treat

Or other item might eat.

–

The best moments you’ll attract

As your years gain tract

And you’ll know how best to act.

–

There’s no need to pretend

Like my many efforts tend

This new poem is at an end…

-aaa