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By Rudyard Kipling  If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in … Read more

By Steve Gillman  Sleeping with a smile on her lips Her beautiful lips And I The luckiest man in the world Because I know She is dreaming of me  Check out the selection of poetry created using Deal-A-Poem too, and feel free to send us any poems created using the Deal-A-Poem technique at: [email protected] . … Read more

By Steve GillmanThis poetry was written using Deal-A-Poem. The words (cards) dealt out were; deeper, attract, never, and souls, and was completed in five minutes. Why are we always attractedTo deeper and deeper holesCan we never be addictedTo the things that feed our souls Check out the selection of poetry created using Deal-A-Poem, using the “poems” link on the navigation … Read more

By Steve Gillman  How great it is to love To be in this state of gratitude It is the closest thing to faith For an atheist like I  How terrifying to be loved To be as a gift to another When everything I do or say Might take their gift away  To be loved by … Read more

By Steve Gillman  Life is beautiful Life is horrible  Remember Both of these truths or neither of them  Check out the selection of poetry created using Deal-A-Poem too, and feel free to send us any poems created using the Deal-A-Poem technique at: [email protected] . Let us know which words started the process. We will give … Read more

By Steve Gillman  Do not believe in god Do not have faith  SEE GOD in stars and sunlight and the face of your lover  HEAR GOD in wind and waves and the music of the birds  TASTE GOD in berries and beer and meals eaten with friends  SMELL GOD in flowers and forests and the … Read more

By Steve Gillman  I am the half-born clawing my way out of nothingness begging you for life  Alone in the darkness You give me no eyes Alone in the silence You give me no ears  I reach for your hand You recoil in horror I am your monster-child abandoned yet again  I become invisible You … Read more

By Steve Gillman  The mountains show themselves against the sky And in the midst of a creation Which is seen with my eyes And heard with my ears And smelled and tasted And felt…  Words fail, as they should.  So there is nothing to say, There is nothing to say, Nothing to say, Nothing,  But … Read more

Want to know how to write poetry? The first thing you have to do is write some. It isn’t important how it turns out. Your mistakes will become your teachers. Your writing will stimulate you to greater creativity. Just start writing. So, once you start the process, how do you improve it? Try these three … Read more