Lessons For Living
Teaching Our Children
I see you looking at your children,
Wondering what their lives will be.
If you verify some answers
Then their future you might see.
Life Lesson Poems - Page 2
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Featured Shared Story
I loved this poem. The list of things that should be given to our children to have an amazing journey through this life, it's all here! This poem contains so much wisdom! Beautifully written....
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Take Time To Know Me
Poem About Being Misjudged By PeopleTake time to know me, and you will see
That I am nothing like what you have heard spoken of me.
Give me a chance, and I will prove to you
That although I am not perfect, I have a heart that is pure and true. -
Keep On Smiling
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If at times you feel you want to cry
And life seems such a trial,
Above the clouds there's a bright blue sky,
So make your tears a smile.Featured Shared StorySo I moved and I really wanted good friends. I had this one friend who was always happy and could light up a room by walking in. He was always smiling and this poem reminded me of him. Thank you.
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Brevity
How Quicky Time And Life Pass ByLife's brevity, so bittersweet,
depends upon just one heartbeat.
Brief as dusk and swift as dawn,Featured Shared StoryVery nice. So very true. When it's said that we are given a certain number of days, what can be said when someone dies, say at age 59.5, but then is resuscitated and is now 64? Oh, no doubt...
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As Time Passes
Poem On Time Going By So FastAs the seconds pass,
We look back
At what our lives have held.
Featured Shared StoryThe poem really hit home with me. I decided to use this for a compare and contrast essay for my literature class.
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True Joy
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I'll be happy once I've done this certain thing.
We all say this often, not realizing what it brings.
We look only to the future for our happiness,
Letting life slip through our fingers in its fullness.Featured Shared StoryWell thought out expression of a very deep yet communal event given voice in an authentic poetry format. Deeply set me thinking about my father's recent death. It's an experience that bind...
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Temperance
Poem About Having ComposureGet annoyed with someone
And explode in fury
But later after calming down
You'd look back -
For Alexis From Your Mama
Live Life Like It Is My Very LastPicture
Sitting on the steps, looking across the lake,
Wondering why life, at times, can seem great.
But in that second, it took me to just think,
My life could change, faster than a blink.Featured Shared StoryI like the poem because it gives me the passion
in everything I do, even if you don't accomplish your goals right away. -
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror, -
Secrets Under Trees
Focusing On The GoodTiny little secrets
Get buried in the dirt,
And if they were dug up,
Someone would probably get hurt,Featured Shared StoryI don’t know if that’s true, because sometimes it's better to hide the hurtful secrets because the world these days will probably laugh at you then do nothing for a few days then decide...
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