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Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Uphill

Life is an uphill struggle
Nothing comes easy
and only hard work pays off
 
I don’t like hard work
was my 5 word protest
It was that simple
 
But when I was your age
he said
with a grin
It was uphill both ways
 
I couldn’t help but smile
I’m sure
Grandpa

(2013)

In Loving Memory
James F. Logue

#Life #MemoryStruggle #Work

Altre opere di Nicholas Ryan Sampson...
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I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all
One Way

The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight
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Autumn

Autumn sneaks in preceding dormancy Leaves take on new beauty with nothing left in them but a fa… Individually insignificant
Nature

There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze
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Her

Hope in another form but no fewer letters and I’ve been hoping for these past eight years so I’ll just keep on
Silence

I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth
Passion

Passion doesn’t arise from 12 point Times New Roman but rather from ink on one page and another
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Whisper

I have whispered your name into the air so many times it has become the breeze that blows
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Friend

There is something to be said of a true friend One who will pull the knife from your back One who will stitch the wounds
Reason

I awoke from a deep sleep and knew the reason was to write I love you
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Empty

I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting
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Always

I wrote this while thinking of you so I guess you could say this poem is eight years in the making
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Split

I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we
Mightier

The pen must be
 mightier than the sword
 For there is nothing that
 will spill your guts faster
 than a bit of ink that says

Aware

It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me
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