Tag: Poetry
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Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: My Dance
Don’t forget follow The Happy Path for more tips and inspiration to live your happiest live. https://youtube.com/shorts/qf34n0tIJPI?feature=share I am not broken, I am whole.A single person yet to unfold.Courageous in fear, hopeful in the dark.Beautiful and ugly, gentle, and stark. A tapestry of life, never complete.A poem or story, that’s messy, not neat. For every…
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Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: Me
youtube.com/shorts/oA987MO5_2o This poem started you titled YOU and is now called ME. I rather like the fact there is a bit of me a save for myself. Me You think you know me, but you can’t see the things I hide. The voices that I strive to outrun. You have no idea what thoughts chase…
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Poetry to Ignite the Soul: Doubt
Doubt seeps in through every crack, every orifice, every doorway left ajar. It seeps and it sits, heavy, like rocks in an ocean And you try to reach the surface and gasp for air. But the tide is rising and every time you get close to relief it is further out of reach Sometimes it…
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Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: Words
Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: Words
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Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: Back against the door
I wrote this poem for the national poetry competition last year. I didn’t win. But I wondered if sharing it could do some good. This poem was inspired by a couple of nights I spent as a child sleeping against the bedroom door afraid that my sister and I would not make it to morning.…
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Poetry to Ignite the Mind and Stir the Soul: International Women’s Day
To all those fabulous ladies I know. I hope you see a little of yourself in these words. You inspire me. In my darkest moments, you drag the stars down from the sky.And if their twinkle doesn’t work, you simply sit with me and cry. You always think of others without a single hesitation.You give…
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Poetry and prose to ignite the soul: I see you happy
I see you there, behind that cloak of doubt.Making out your fine and shutting the world out. I see you there, beneath those swathes of pain.Holding it together, so you can make it through the day. I see you there, drowning in their expectations.Giving of yourself, with no chance of salvation. I see there warn…
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Into the Depths.
I watched you slip away,behind those steely eyes.Dragged into that other place,where hope has gone to die. I tried to be your buoy.To hold you up for air.But the murky depths,dragged you still further to despair. I had to let you slip,beneath the icy waves.For if I held more tightly,we would both have meet our…
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Judge not what you see.
Poem – Judge not what you see. Because nobody can truly see to the heart of a person. Save your judgement, cast out kindness instead.
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A year that’s past, a year to overcome.
This year I was forced; To think about what really mattered to me.To be grateful for my job.To savour the small things.To up my self awareness.To increase my resilience.To pray more.To pursue new projects.To find new ways to connect.To place greater will in hope. Next year I will; Take financial control.Ask myself who I want…
Rowan Aderyn 