We're Better Than Yesterday
Don't be worried about the past.
Things like that never last.
We're better than yesterday.
We never run out of things to say.
Don't be worried about the past.
Things like that never last.
We're better than yesterday.
We never run out of things to say.
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When worries and fears I claim for my own,
When I feel helpless and all alone,
When my deepest memories come to mind
And all my sadness I leave behind,
When I was born
The world was waiting there for me
To smell, to touch, to taste, to see.
What wonders filled my little eyes.
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I ask but this one small thing.
Give me the worldly skies
For I cannot stay trapped here
A little bird am I....
This poem touched me in a way I didn't know poetry could. I'm an aspiring writer myself and often use bird metaphors in a sort of way that my friends think is pretentious - but to see someone...
Men at forty
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms they will not be
Coming back to.
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I was sitting on the bench in the park one day,
And saw a butterfly coming my way.
I opened my hand, and to my surprise,
the butterfly landed; consumed in cries.
This poem is so cute. Good writing. My husband and I were in Branson, Missouri, visiting and while standing outside, a big butterfly came flying by. It flew around and around, so I put my...
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My life is changing.
The life that I've had,
It's changing forever,
But no need to be sad.
What to wish
What a wish
A wish is a wish you can wish
For
If you do your best, God will do the rest!!
Why must children suffer for the wrong we do?
Why must children pay the price for the ugly hate we spew?
Why must children have to cope with hunger and with war?
Why must children feel the wrath at Mother Nature's core?
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