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Jay A Yoder Sep 2014
Don’t speed through because Life is “too short”.
Enjoy all moments, good, bad, and every sort.
The good, you will always hold tender.
And the bad are lessons to remember.

Let your experiences take you on an adventure you never knew.
And don’t let your possessions possess you.
Never settle for normal or boring.
Just take a leap of faith, and start soaring.

Always be proud, even in your mistakes.
Learn from them, and just say “Thanks”.
Don’t be passive, but not too controlling.
Give yourself a push, to get the ball rolling.

Stay humble even when you’re doing great.
For when you think you’re the best, you might fall on your face.
Love and care for everyone, even your enemies.
‘Cause your kindness, could be their remedy.

Life is crazy, and is sometimes annoying.
But stop your worrying, and start your enjoying.
Written in the form of a Shakespearean Sonnet, in iambic pentameter.
Spencer Dennison Sep 2014
Heavy clanging of funeral bells greet
newer, bleaker days in the same turmoil.
Men and Women alike run fast to meet
greener grass sprouting out the same black soil.
I cut laugh lines into my pallid face
and throw my head 'neath freight trains each new morn'
I find little solace or change of pace
in carving the page to express my scorn.
My dark fantasies of death and sorrow
plague my night and cast shadow over day.
The other souls are simple, vain and weak
that shuffle on wires with little to say
and no fighting spirit of which to speak.
For each smile, there runs a bitter tear.
Just let me sleep, wake me when Death comes near.
It's been a long day.
Spencer Dennison Sep 2014
The truest bliss you impart upon me
sends a shiver down each column of my spine,
etching track marks over all my body,
a drug no-one can perfect or refine.
Your visage leaves lightning bolts on my eyes
and a heart palpitating in my chest.
Your body silhouetted in night skies
melts my deepest poetry to mere jest.
When we touch, it smashes my composure
into oblivion and far beyond.
When we lock eyes, I'm chilled from exposure
but for certain, only I feel this bond.
Although I strive for a day we would meet,
with the others, I could never compete.
Sonnets are my newest fascination, even in Iambic Pentameter. I'll try to post more than one daily.
O dear Morpheus, for thy rest be no disturbance in thee?
For thy sole ideas be neither order nor structure in flow?
Fear I sense for thy sacrèd inmost sanctum closes its eye.
This is a Sijo that I wrote one morning after having trouble sleeping. Its language is mostly influenced by William Shakespeare (hence the grave accent).

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© Jordan Dean "Mystery" Ezekude
RJ Days Apr 2014
Deep tensions draw the shoulds and hold so much
While hells are made from can’ts and still-might-be’s
With magic care great weeds and blooms are ******
Upon real earth, no final fantasies
What does she owe herself and so the rest?
I strain to view but maybe it’s unclear
Though few embraced those true but hollow jests
well hewn from mind as sharply filled with fear
For needling help the price of scars she paid
She brought them forth, in love she did enlist
Defying self, unworthy world was stayed
Creating joy in order to exist
And now to hold us, tend the garden too
Is what we all need mothers' hands to do.
for Keri

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