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  1. 41. A Simple Plan

    • By Irwin Mercer
    • Published by Family Friend Poems May 2017 with permission of the Author.

    Simple Sam was a simple man.
    He lived each day by a simple plan.
    Enjoy your life and live while you can.
    Make each day count and take a stand.

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  3. 42. Only Time Will Remain

    • By Crystal Lewis
    • Published by Family Friend Poems March 2019 with permission of the Author.

    It's unbranded and unclaimed,
    Elusive and in vain.
    It ebbs and it flows,
    Wishing away as it goes.

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    Crystal, really enjoyed the thoughtfulness of this poem. Gave me much to consider about time. Great job! Brought to mind a silly thought I once had: "Can the hands of a clock grasp the...

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  5. 43. A Poem About Time

    Time is slow, time is fast.
    It never stops, but it always lasts.
    It's time for bed, it's time for school.
    To waste your time is to be a fool.

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    Sisters made a great impact on my life. In 1949, at age six, I was brought to St Clara's Orphanage because neighbors found me alone in an empty house. It just so happened that I was born with...

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  6. 44. In The Blink Of An Eye

    • By Ophelia E. Shakespeare
    • Published by Family Friend Poems June 2023 with permission of the Author.

    Fleeting eternity
    surrounds the mountaintop,
    nestled in a lush green valley
    time forgot.

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  7. 45. This Journey Of Mine

    I wake up each day
    On this journey of mine,
    Grabbing each moment
    Of my limited time.

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    Ann: I just ran across your comments. I'm glad I reached someone with my poems. I don't know which poem you were referring to, but I'm glad you enjoyed it. Did you read No More Whippoorwill,...

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  8. 46. Other People

    • By Alan Steinle
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2011 with permission of the Author.

    Hell is other people.
    -Jean-Paul Sartre

    Hell is other people who

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    That's so true. I am from somewhere where flat girls are considered beautiful. My friends often make fun of me because I am not flat like them, and it often makes me cry, but now I'm used to...

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  9. 47. The Little Things Mean More Than Anything

    • By Gemma Troy
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2021 with permission of the Author.

    It’s the little things
    isn’t it
    that mean more than anything
    and the simple pleasures

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  10. 48. The Hand Of Fate

    • By Beau Taplin
    • Published by Family Friend Poems January 2021 with permission of the Author.

    There is no reason to feel troubled
    if your path has not been made clear to you yet.
    When you remain true to your spirit,
    courageous in action,

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  11. 49. Read It Again

    I hate people who’ve hurt me
    so you’ll never hear me say
    I must love them harder.
    I know that

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  12. 50. Barter

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    Life has loveliness to sell,
    All beautiful and splendid things,
    Blue waves whitened on a cliff,
    Soaring fire that sways and sings,

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    How wonderful to stop, really see, and appreciate what nature gives us. I too love the crashing waves, the dancing flames and beautiful smells around us, we need to be mindful of every moment...

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  13. 51. Is This The Year To End All Years?

    I watch the hands on the clock tick by
    And I wonder where time goes.
    Will this be the year to end all years?
    Well, only God can know.

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    Excellent poem, as always. Keep writing...
    Very best wishes,
    Ann

  14. 52. Life

    • By John P. Read
    • Published by Family Friend Poems May 2019 with permission of the Author.

    Your springtime has gone.
    Your summers have passed.
    Autumn's now waving goodbye.

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  15. 53. Holidays

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    The holiest of all holidays are those
    Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
    The secret anniversaries of the heart,
    When the full river of feeling overflows;--

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  16. 54. If This Day Is My Last

    • By Glen Edward C. Flores
    • Published by Family Friend Poems April 2015 with permission of the Author.

    If this day is my last,
    I will be rejoicing,
    Reminiscing my memories since my life came to being.
    I will spend this day only by praying

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  17. 55. Why

    • By Helen Grandison
    • Published by Family Friend Poems March 2008 with permission of the Author.

    Why do we begin if we don't plan to finish?
    Why do we love if we don't want to get hurt?
    Why do we live if someday we must die?
    Why do we smile if we really hurt inside?

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    Most of the answers to this poem in my eyes would be hope.

  18. 56. The Hero Of Your Life

    You are the only one
    who can save you
    no one else can
    do it for you

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  19. 57. The Present

    • By Nicki F. Gunderson
    • Published by Family Friend Poems November 2016 with permission of the Author.

    The future is too far away to dream of.
    The past is too far behind to dwell on.
    The world is too big to go unnoticed.
    Nature is too beautiful to be passed by.

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  20. 58. Ozymandias

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    I met a traveller from an antique land
    Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
    Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
    Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown

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  21. 59. Deja Vu

    • By Marcia A. Newton
    • Published by Family Friend Poems February 10, 2025 with permission of the Author.

    I can't be certain, but I believe we have met before.
    There's an eerie connection between us; of this I'm very sure.
    You seem so familiar like our paths have crossed somehow.
    I wonder maybe in a dream or a memory long past now.

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  22. 60. Life

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    Let me but live my life from year to year,
    With forward face and unreluctant soul;
    Not hurrying to, nor turning from the goal;
    Not mourning for the things that disappear

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