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A Picture This Club -- Free Verse
Heart Crafted Poems - 2022
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Life's Lessons Learned
by JLR
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Life's Lessons Learned
The licking of gentle waves caresses the shoreline
illuminated by the moonbeams dancing atop the
body of water held in Homestead Lake.
Pa's rugged hand rests gently on my back as he
watches intently at my fishing line, stirring in
the ebb and flow of the whisper of wind that
creates a slight cooling of the evening air.
Pa gave many a life lessons between the shrilling
of nightingales echoing in the nearby trees, and the
croak and ribbits of frogs hidden among the tall
reeds, just offshore ...
Always say, "Please and Thank you" ....
Never tell tales out of school...
A bad workman blames his tools ...
The bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ...
A friend in need is a friend indeed ...
Lessons that Pa's Pa passed down
when he also clutched the same pole in his hands
under that full moon,
many moons ago.
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