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In the Dead of Night | Mark Andrew Heathcote - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

In the Dead of Night | Mark Andrew Heathcote

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I’m an oak with rings ingrain
My heart is a woodcut carving
My soul a gnarled wooden cane
No longer prevents my falling.

I’m a mountain-pine-forest
A field of flattened wheat:
A no-man’s-land, a gauntlet
Thrown, down in beseech

Of-war, of-madness or friendship
Take your pick; I am ready, for all.
I have sharpened and whetted,
Sheaved my blade; heeding its call.

I have vanquished-my-enemies
One and all to see them lonesome fall
I have rewritten they’re own parodies.
In my turn stood, equally tall.

I have ignited into blossom,
And unfurled to catch sight
Every flower my breath can bosom
Hold to itself in the dead of night.

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Words of Wisdom | Sunita Sahoo - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Words of Wisdom | Sunita Sahoo

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Hey You!
The one reading my message,
Have you discovered something new?
After overcoming life’s wreckage!

Why do you cry?
You are not alone!
You can still soar high,
Walking on varied paths unknown!

You may fail a million times,
But never give up trying!
See how your spirit climbs,
No wonder, it feels so satisfying!

Bloom like a Lotus,
Grow through the stagnant pools of filth!
When life seems out of focus,
Remember that you are being REBUILT!

A Poem for Your Self | Heath Brougher - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

A Poem for Your Self | Heath Brougher

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Encourage yourself in ways
no one else has ever thought of

write secret hymns
that you find by accident
like poetic balloons filled with helium
to raise you up like a rooster
calling in the Day

write catastrophes yet to happen
and then stop them from occurring
write the future you want for your Self
and then be the catalyst
which brings it to fruition

for all is connected—

a human mind can change sugar
into moss simply by its positive thought output.

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Be Who You Are | Ann Christine Tabaka - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

Be Who You Are | Ann Christine Tabaka

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“Be who you are” they say.
But who I am
is not who I
want to be …
dream to be …
need to be …
I desire to be so much more.
To soar above the drab and mundane
that fills my days.
To shine brighter than now.
To grow beyond safe.
My voice to lift above the throng,
and be heard throughout the echo of time
To not be limited by
“who you are.”

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The Hole in the Whole | Igor Goldkind - Contemporary Poetry Website Featuring Notable Poems

The Hole in the Whole | Igor Goldkind

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The measure of suffering is how distant you are from your own happiness.
There is no distance farther than that.
It’s a gap people carry around with them, sometimes oddly, with pride:
‘Look how long-suffering, look how hard working,
Look how good doing I am.’
Small wonder we’re exhausted all of the time.

Because there’s the whole of our lives to account for, to ourselves,
To the you who is listening to this.
Sure, it’s your hole and you’ll sink into it if you want to
But to me it’s just another drain pipe, a wound for life to drip out of
Everyone can see right through you
Until you find a way to plug that hole yourself.

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