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Some are Water Lilies
Whose roots grow deep in mud
Some are Aloes blooming red
With healing in their bud

Some are Cala Lilies
With blossoms white as snow
Some are florid Orchids
Which in a hothouse grow

Some Lily of the Valley
Exquisite unadorned
Some are Cactus Roses
Be careful of the thorns!

Some are Jack in the Pulpit
A rakish sort of fella
Some are Ladies Slippers
Awaiting Cinderella!

Some are lovely Roses
Which smell so very sweet
Some are Stink Cabbage
With a smell like rotting meat!

Moonflowers and Marigolds
Irises. Magnolia!
So many I can't think of
Many I haven't told ya...

There are Venus Fly Trap
Carnivorous cutie
The Lilaç grow in bushes
known for their great beauty

Daisies are so simple
Violets in there too
Tell me true
Look at leaf and petal folks
what flower type are YOU?




SoulSurvivor aka
Write of Passage aka
Invisible inc
Catherine Jarvis
(C) 3/20/2016
I'm sorry if I haven't been following your work! I've been so busy I just don't have lots of time to read anymore. But if you send me a link for your poetry I will read it. I'm doing my best to be on the site and catching up on all the poems that I haven't read by each individual poet. I love you all and wish I could be on site all day! Take care and have a beautiful week!
When you put your worth, in the people that surround you.
When you put your worth in the things that you do or say.
When you put your worth in what others might say about you.
When you put your worth in what you can do for other people.
Stop , quit selling yourself like this for each of you are worthy.
Just laid down your low self-esteem and pick up Christ purpose.
For one thing that God can not do and that is make junk.
He only creates beauty and Masterpiece, so quit calling yourself junk.
For you are worthy to be appreciated and loved by others for you are Gods Masterpiece.
Abracadabra
With nothing up my sleeve

Watch me carefully
As I try to be
Something that I'm really not
Someone other than me

Abracadabra
With nothing up my sleeve  

Hocus Pocus
Trying to not own this

What's behind the curtain
Is a bit out of focus
You'll never guess what's behind my back
It's best if you don't notice

Hocus Pocus
Trying to not own this

Sim Sala Bim
No more than slight of hand

Watch as I pull out of my hat
Less than life demands
Some say it's magic
Depends on where you stand

Sim Sala Bim
No more than slight of hand
Life is too short to live by peoples opinions,
Choose your path and walk it..
You may be different,
Don't worry...you're not supposed to be like everyone else.
In the End, the Faithful were rewarded,
But there were just a few.
In the End, most screamed with terror,
As the guilty always do.
In the End, there was a final vote,
And we thought consensus ruled,
But in the End, the voting over,
We discovered we were fooled.

In the End, we ran for shelter,
There was none there to be found;
All the Faithful had secured it;
For they were Heaven-bound.
As the flames lept all around us,
We begged forgiveness from our Lord
In a Hell of our own makng,
With riches saved we can’t afford.

For the riches we were chasing,
Stole the goodness from our soul.
All the gold and all the silver
Melted into worthless coal,
And I stood and watched with sadness
Knowing I had had my chance
As the flames lept all around me,
Hell’s eternal damning dance.
PwL  3/19/16
Could I have a piece of poetry please
With a slight rhyme on the side
A haiku or a sinew
On which a man could dine

The tastiest of tidbits
That I would care to read
Just enough to fill me up
This plate of poetry

Pour on the best in condiments
Cut a limerick from the bunch
Now with all of that said I think
I'll sit down and do lunch
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