By Markie Doczi | Featured Contributor
Love and compassion, sorrow and strife
An uneven rhythm, this opus called life
Fate she is fickle, one day you’re stuck
And the next you may have a stroke of good luck
Sometimes you’ll be sad, when we lose those we love
We evaluate life and the frailty thereof
Often the small things make living worthwhile
The laugh of a baby, a hug or a smile
Yesterday’s gone, tomorrow’s a bet
The heart can’t survive that is torn by regret
So follow your dreams, learn from mistakes
And always think twice on decisions you make
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Author Bio
Markie Doczi is a 33-year-old author and poet from Middleport, Ohio. She aspires to relate to people with her poetry, touching on many real life issues and situations. Markie is the author of Beneath the Old Oak Tree, a collection of original poetry, and she is also currently pursuing professional publication of her historical fiction, Blue Heaven’s Tent.
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Life definitely has its ups and downs, we cannot know joy without sadness. Speaking to that I just lost my kitty cat unexpectedly a few days ago and am still processing that. They teach us so much about resilience and unconditional love. 💗
Hi Courtney, thanks so much for your comment! I am a cat person for sure, and it is devastating when they die. And it’s so much worse when people run over your animals (I live in the country) and never even stop to tell you or at least apologize! That happened to one of my babies last summer 😔
I’m glad you enjoyed the poem. I write a lot about grief as well, you’ll have to come visit my site 🙂
I would love to follow you. I can’t seem to figure out how to follow you on WordPress?
I’m sorry, sometimes people can and sometimes they can’t- I never have quite ironed out all the bugs linking my blog to the reader! There’s a subscribe option on my site (scroll down if you’re on a cell phone).
Beautiful and inspiring. Thank you.
Thank you for reading!
Such beautiful piece of poetry! Also, thanks for stopping by my blog the other day! Glad you liked my poems!
You’re so welcome! Just showing appreciation❤
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I love your poem! You have an amazing talent!
Thank you so much. ❤
I’d love for you to visit my blog and read more of my poetry; I truly love sharing it with others!
https://southpawpoet.org
I clicked on your name to visit your blog but it said it’s been closed. Do you have an active site I can check out?
Such a beautiful poem, I particularly love the opening line!
Aw, thank you!