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Come With Me
Come with me Come and see the world Flags unfurled In the air You can see so far Be a star On our way Just a step or two Calling you Come with me Come and see it all You … Continue reading
Possibility
Admit me in To the possibility I have remained a novice All this time Read my books And learned my lines Awaiting on The appointed moment When the doors would open wide And welcome me inside Give me hope Through … Continue reading
Looking at the stars
Oscar we won’t let you down As we trail our lives Through grimy, dusty streets All our past mistakes and sins Crushed beneath our feet Knocking on doors of riches That all the world debars We’ll be looking at the … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged ambition, aspirations, devil, Life, Oscar, Oscar Wilde, poetry, riches, stars
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Everyday Dreams
These many years the boundaries of my suburban life have held me in And I must admit some security attended such limitations I would tend my house and garden Feed family and nurture all Except me, except me I understood … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged ambition, breaking free, desire, fantasy, hearth, home, lack, limitations, loss, restraint, striving
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Alone
I have been alone so long Visiting those parks where as children we so freely played As evening comes the moon is no comfort and none of these creeping fears may be allayed I’ve even fallen at the chairs where … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Water
Tagged alone, ambition, captured, childhood, death, haste, lack of time, loneliness, memories, regret
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Three: Greed
If I take it all It is not enough If I leave the scraps I will feel short changed All the dollars glide Up into my eyes To leave even one Is to be deranged I no longer sleep Ravaged … Continue reading
Posted in Fire
Tagged ambition, competition, dark, desire, driven, greed, money, poetry, seven deadly sins
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Crown of Thorns
Down the years we don Our crown of thorns And bleed our dreams On our life’s brittle page Make our prayers to gods Give our sacrifice As though bargaining can make Us rule this weary stage Each year we find … Continue reading
Competition
This competition excoriates Friendships broken Fallen at the feet Of mere victory Struggle in vain Only one may rise And there at his feet All the broken dreams And dreamers lie This trophy is of blood And broken bone And … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged ambition, competition, cruelty, demands, friendship broken, lie, loss, ruthless
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Modern World
This is the modern Stairway to heaven An escalator built For a comfort ride And on either side Are categories of purchases Commodities are now Trinkets to enlightenment Because we have no navigation For any other Upward rise Who said … Continue reading
Posted in Fire, Poetry
Tagged ambition, bankrupt, competition, greed, heaven, merchandise, rising, Spiritual, stairway, winning
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