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What is destiny? What is fate?
Ended June 1, 2016 • 11 Entries • Created by mvadrix
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What is destiny? What is fate?
Cover image for post Desperado Destiny, by sandflea68
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sandflea68 in Poetry & Free Verse

Desperado Destiny

Bodies attached

woven together

shackled in bindings

breeding jangling pain.

Dark dungeon of fate

desperado destiny

dancing at the brink

of treacherous cliff.

Rats gnawing at feet

struggling for life

at our locked gate.

If we want to escape

we each must breathe

diverse air on our own.

Untie tangled knots

allow dissonant souls

to tread their own path.

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What is destiny? What is fate?
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IlFilostrato in Poetry & Free Verse

Greetings and Farewell, and Hello again

Into the miasma of conditioning

You're borne.

A plethora of bodies,

Chemical, all, at war.

Influence, influenced by

That vacuum of choice;

As deep as sleep,

As relative in kind.

For fate is not built,

Nor prescribed,

But shaped

One consequence at a time.

A misstep,

A revelation.

True elation,

Sorely bereft.

The apology,

The abortion,

False modesty,

Contortion.

To promise,

To know.

To be honest

Tomorrow.

To promise this,

To learn to lie.

To witness bliss,

To watch love die.

One more intrusion,

One more delusion.

Sorrow that ends,

Death of a friend.

Superfluous,

Serendipitous,

To lust,

To trust.

And death,

What can be said?

An end,

A breath?

Fate is opportunity spent

With chance to marginalise.

Oversimplify to sympathise

The end that is meant.

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What is destiny? What is fate?
Cover image for post Fey Fates, by derickijohnson
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derickijohnson in Poetry & Free Verse

Fey Fates

I neither believe

Nor can conceive

Fey Fates control

My destiny

Choices mine

Creates timeline

That's My Reality-

Not thine

If choice is illusion

And Life a game rigged

Through Divine collusion,

I'll just kick back

And smoke a joint

Cuz trying..."Well, hell-

What's the point?"

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What is destiny? What is fate?
Cover image for post Fate and destiny, by Vyxyn
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Vyxyn in Poetry & Free Verse

Fate and destiny

My darling before you were born

Way up in the stars, the Angels gathered

round and decided your fate.

They mixed in sugar n spice a little dirt eww!

And a few worms for good measure too.

You are lovely and have grown into a wonderful man, you are destined for greatness, that's their plan. Stop wallowing it does you no good.

Life is too short, your destined for good.

Our fate is out of our hands, for it has already been decided. However only you can determine what types of destiny you have.

There is greatness in you,

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What is destiny? What is fate?
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Ayoeridani in Poetry & Free Verse

All souls meaningless

There's the heavens and us, – below

A life given, a mystery even now

If there be something more or new

None has seen what's never to be seen

We cross ourselves and kiss our lovers

But the true journey ends in the grave

They claim that paradise lie beyond

Been there and back, all is void

Fate or destiny, does it really matter?

All ends in the grave

All souls, all meaningless

Love now, be kind

Beyond the grave is void!

Meaningless!

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What is destiny? What is fate?
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snaggletooth in Poetry & Free Verse

DIY:

I knew a man said, "Destiny?

Ain't she 

the girl next door?"

Said, "Fate?! 

Ain't that one of them

four-letter words?"

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What is destiny? What is fate?
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SarahInsideoutO in Poetry & Free Verse

Fixed Facets

Destiny and fate assure me that there is an end, and it is certain. They play into every moment of my life and every decision I'll ever make. They are the result of each rise and fall, all of my successes and failures, my advancements and setbacks. They give me hope and, above all, they give my life meaning. Fate and destiny make me eager to see what the future has in store for me. I ache to know what is at the end of my journey, and how exactly I got there.

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What is destiny? What is fate?
samir37 in Poetry & Free Verse

destiny and fate

Little more than man-made constructs to explain away responsibility and hardships.

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What is destiny? What is fate?
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DensonPen in Poetry & Free Verse

To accept visions

Of ends created by our

Experiences

Perceived to be truth and thus

Autonomy relinquished

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What is destiny? What is fate?
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Iran_Adams in Poetry & Free Verse

Destiny and Fate

Destiny is an ideal. Fate is Destiny's god.