Meaningful Poems - Page 4

62. Ozymandias

Famous Poem

• By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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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63. Life

Famous Poem

• By Henry Van Dyke

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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64. Offers

• By Abimbola T. Alabi
• Published by Family Friend Poems January 3, 2025 with permission of the Author.

I don't mind accolades
freely passed on my way,
I'll take encouragement
gladly, any given day.

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65. 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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66. Life Is Worth A Try

• By E. Rob Turner
• Published by Family Friend Poems September 2016 with permission of the Author.

Along this huge labyrinth
That we call life,
You will face great trials,
Adversity, and strife.

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68. It's The Simple Things

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

It’s the simple things
that bring me joy
it’s being with you
that fills my soul

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69. The Red Line

• By Judd L. Strom
• Published by Family Friend Poems February 2006 with permission of the Author.

He danced as a buck,
sang as an elder and
beat a drum as long as he was able.

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71. Two Hundred Thirty-Three

• By Tanya Markul
• Published by Family Friend Poems January 2021 with permission of the Author.

When you stop trying
to fit into a world
that you don’t belong to anymore,
you grow

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