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Best Poems From
FAITH ELIZABETH BRIGHAM
(May 14,1953)
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To You Who Have Always Been So Proud
to you who have always been so proud
and quick to judge or criticize my every move
i ask what exactly is my crime
do you despise me for nature was
kinder to me than you found her to be
do you envy me my successes
never acknowledging the hard work
that went into earning them
do you wish you had my problems
without knowing all the trouble i have seen
oh i pity you poor soul who in your
self-made misery can only look
upon me with unkind eyes
Faith Elizabeth Brigham
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Toothpick People
i don't understand how
you could sit across from me
making people out of toothpicks on the table top
as though we weren't in this restaurant where you just picked a fight with me and made me cry
no, i will never understand why
your face devoid of all emotion
your eyes a stony cold
you rearrange your little toothpick people to suit your liking
as you once manipulated me
before the days you had to resort to making scenes in restaurants
just to set me off
i can't help thinking
you see me as one of your little people lifeless and without feelings as though i had a wooden heart
as though you were master of the universe
having, wanting, needing
total control of me
Faith Elizabeth Brigham
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Truest Love
once i was somebody's wife
but things didn't turn out right
i never thought i was real domesticated
but when it was all over
i was most certainly educated on the
evil ways a man can be
i still believe in love
though the scars he left went deep
my life is changed but
my truest love is still writing poetry
so when someone says
something i wrote has made them smile
it touches my heart very deeply
perhaps i have helped
them even in a small way to go on
writing is part of
my soul's work and i will write until
the day that i take my last breath
i write not for my
ego's sake but for a much higher purpose
because my greatest wish
is that i might leave the world
a better place by sharing
a part of my soul's stirrings
Faith Elizabeth Brigham
Read more: poetry poems, evil poems, believe poems, work poems, smile poems, world poems, love poems, change poems
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Two Thousand Soldiers
two thousand soldiers have died
while fighting the war in Iraq
and there is nothing anyone
can do to bring our men and women back
oh, how heartbreaking it is
to keep seeing the death toll on the rise
the mothers and the fathers
husbands and wives whose pain intensifies
i can not help but wonder
when it comes down to it is it worth this
the families being torn up
as the names of heroes increase the list
Faith Elizabeth Brigham
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