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Poetry

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POETRY

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Why worry about things that happened in the past?

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Forget about that test. You tried.

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Those things are gone, they do not last.

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"Kindness is next to goodness."

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I know the Gators lost, but you shouldn't have cried.

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Be sure to enjoy life and not worry about the little things, you never know when your time will be up.

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Spending weekend writing essays
instead of watching football,
Nothing is better!

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Struggling to figure out
What bote means in Spanish
Nothing is better!

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Eternal is the never ending cycle
Between the Sun and the Earth
Everyday and every night.

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Don't worry that you lost to the seniors in volleyball.

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The American eagle is not aware
he is the American eagle.
-Eagle Plain, by Robert Francis

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And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years,
I can cheerfully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait.
Song of Myself, by Walt Whitman

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Sometimes you hear a voice through the door calling you, as a fish out of water hears the waves
-Rumi

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Trying to protect his students' innocence
he told them the Ice Age was really just
the Chilly Age, a period of a million years
when everyone had to wear sweaters.
-The History Teacher, by Billy Collins

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If we have honored him we have honored one
who unequivocally honors himself by
overlooking us.
-Eagle Plain, by Robert Francis

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I exist as I am, that is enough,
-Song of Myself, Walt Whitman

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
-The Summer Day, by Mary Oliver

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Act,— act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
-A Psalm of Life, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Very truly, I tell you, when you were younger, you used to fasten your own belt and go wherever you wished. But when you grow old, you will stretch out your hands, and someone else will fasten a belt around you and take you where you do not wish to go.
-John 21:18

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Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside,
you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.
-Kindness, by Naomi Shihab Nye

Matthew Drake