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17 Poems - Poems about 17

Premium Member 1 SAMUEL 17:4-5
1 SAMUEL 17:4-5 Like I a descendant of David Like I a descendant of David My forefathers Father I too come before giants You Philistines come with a sword But I come to you with the name of the Lord The Lord of Host I come not to boast I am of the God of Israel I am of the God of Israel In God he...

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Categories: 17, analogy, appreciation, blessing, celebration,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member In Three Winds They Rise A Trilogy Poem in Tribute to the Souls of Flight 17 - June 2025!
The “Mayday” radio call message was the final voice from Air India 171 flight bound for London seconds before it crashed creating an eternal memorial for 241 gracious beings, with one survivor. My heartfelt sympathy and condolences to every family member, friend, and associate of those who made their ascent into the heavenly realms. May...

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Categories: 17, angel, farewell, grief, june,
Form: Prose



Premium Member Wheel Of Life - Hiku 17
Written: June 08, 2025 for contest by Brian Strand ********************* of ...

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Categories: 17, birth, death, life,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Spring Rain 17
Spring Rain Hiku 17 ...

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Categories: 17, dark, heaven, rain, spring,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member 17 Grace After Meals
We give You thanks for all Your benefits O Almighty Eternal God Who lives and reigns forever Amen Poetry Form: Quatrain Date Typed: May 19, 2025 Time Typed: 9:47pm ...

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Categories: 17, christian, community, devotion, god,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Darn - Apr 17
O’ dear, I learned today you’re spoken for; I asked the question, got the answer: “no”. Ayayaye…but, considering the blow wasn’t so bad, I’m glad I tried to score. Oh dear,—(I must admit)—you know what’s more?, you’ve snatched the beauty right out from this low world; o’ diamond, why must you hoard it so? All other charms have lost their glow, they...

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Categories: 17, beauty, crush, cute, heart,
Form: Italian Sonnet
Premium Member Where I stand Australia'
I won't be long, I'll just tell ya all this..So you don't get me Wrong.' If you look back on my writes you will see, when in Great concern I made prophesy.' I said the generals are all Bought.' Or In Aussie this would not be so.' I spoke now we need A colonel, and by God it was...

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Categories: 17, courage, freedom, identity, may,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Heifer and the Ox - Mar 17
Said the Heifer to the Ox: “O‘ sorry Ox, How terrible to work your heavy yoke, All day to wheel around that grinding spoke!” She lay lazy in the shade of nearby rocks. But Ox plowed onwards. Hearing Heifer’s knocks, And paying no heed to her pitiful smoke, He laboured, knowing well the dreadful joke Which soon was to repay...

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Categories: 17, allegory, animal, fate, myth,
Form: Italian Sonnet
hiku 17
salmon streaks the sky transforming hues ~ crescent moon smiles...

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Categories: 17, moon, sky, sunset,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member TERRORISTS THREATS FROM 17 GANGSTER DISCIPLES OF WISCONSIN ON THE STREETS AND BEHIND BARS
NO FEAR OF 17 GANG MEMBERS VIOLENT OFFENDERS STORMED THE HOSPITAL AFTER HOURS INTIMIDATING MY DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER IT WAS A LONG DAY MY DAUGHTER TOOK HER INFANT DAUGHTER TO GET HER FIRST IMMUNIZATION GOD ONLY KNEW THE GARGANO CRIME FAMILY CATRINA BELL AND CORRUPTION WAS LURKING TO KILL AN INFANT BELIEVING SHE WOULD INHERIT...

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Categories: 17, allah,
Form: Lento
Premium Member Georgia 2 17 2025
second Winter without snowflakes just peachy ...

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Categories: 17, weather,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member Rum n Raisin 17 - Bird Talk
Rum got to his feet and said, “Let’s go play in the street.” Raisin said, “I’m up for that; some fresh air would be neat.” They were soon outside and heard a sound… FLAP FLAP… THUD… TWEET What a shock it was to find a young bird at their feet A scruffy ball of feathers that could clearly not...

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Categories: 17, bird, cat,
Form: Narrative
HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025
HO HO WHOA Second Chance algorithm drawing for January 17, 2025 No matter I kept fingers and toes crossed, and waited with bated breath since January 2, 2025 even converted from skeptic to orthodox Judaism, and strictly followed the Torah, Talmud, and traditional Jewish laws, and made good on the gamut of my misdeeds considered a shonda, nevertheless yours truly courtesy the powers at...

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Categories: 17, 7th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Poetry Challenge poems 16, 17, 18
Number 16 ...

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Categories: 17, angst,
Form: Rhyme
his December 17th 2024
This December 17th, 2024... alternately titled: a literary retrospective when holiday times living hand to mouth in Penn Valley fraught with slim pickings and yours truly felt utterly miserable that nary a delivery from Santa Claus would be forthcoming. Totally tubular nonfiction yup, nevertheless I reflect the year (arbitrarily plucked from misty past) Santa Claus did not show up courtesy...

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Categories: 17, absence, america, angst, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme

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