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Home Posts tagged "purpose"

Tag: purpose

Just Doing
. Introspective / Life / Metrical / Rhyme

Just Doing

I was a good son, a reclusive one, though. When my parents intruded wherever I’d go, asking “What are you doing?” it bugged me, and so with a shrug, I …

 Gerry Busch / importance / priorities / purpose / value
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Carpe Diem (with audio)
. Contemplative / Life / Prose Poetry

Carpe Diem (with audio)

  So, faithful beating heart, this is it. You’re showing me to the exit… the party’s over so soon? The clock is ticking slowly, but the alarm is set I …

 death / memories / purpose / retrospection / Robert Lindsay / time
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Pilgrims
. Contemplative / Hope / Life / Metrical / Rhyme

Pilgrims

In a dying desert lost, Wandering long by paths unknown, Our lives are tempests’ victims, blown As if dry leaves detached and tossed. Forty years, or eighty years For we …

 Bruce Wren / C. S. Lewis / destiny / journey / memory / origin / purpose
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Calling
. Contemplative / Free Verse / Life

Calling

I have fulfilled my purpose when I cease to wonder … Why am I here? Am I doing this right? What does tomorrow hold? … when I can sit in …

 acceptance / awakening / Mary Boren / purpose
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