Democracy or Autocracy
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MAGA folks, with Trump are mostly delighted
Democrats up in arms, yet affrighted
Is Trump dealing democracy a ‘death blow’
or just displaying ‘common sense...
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Categories:
affrighted, america, confusion, freedom,
Form: Couplet
Carter the Martyr
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A radical named Hans Grenade Carter
His desire in life to be a martyr
His explosive ignited
All the targets, affrighted
From the stench he emitted, the farter
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Categories:
affrighted, giggle, hero,
Form: Limerick
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR BEING OUR REFUGE AND FORTRESS
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June 30 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 91-95
Key Verse – Psalms 91:2 I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
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Categories:
affrighted, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Reflections: A Lonely Life of Death
...The heart and mind meld this time
I would that I bleed, not cry
Bleeding tells them my body hurts
Crying reveals my heart and soul hurt
The tree of life is uncertain and short
Season in; seaso...
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Categories:
affrighted, death, friendship, how i
Form: Free verse
Fretfully Aching To Feel Fit As a Fiddle
...Fretfully aching to feel fit as a fiddle
After experiencing a severe,
albeit violent near lethal bout
of irritable bowel syndrome
(yesterday night August 30th, 2023)
triggered courtesy dulcola...
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Categories:
affrighted, abuse, angst, anxiety, dad,
Form: Rhyme
How Do Children Sleep At Night
...It's a wonder young children still turn out all right
With the stuff that gets crammed in their heads every night.
Things like visions of sugar plum fairies and sprites,
Or a thousand tales of Ara...
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Categories:
affrighted, children, humor, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
She Inferno
...Passion ignited on a strike
She lights the dark night sky
trailing a glowing inferno
scattering embers near and low, soo far and ever so high,
crawling across the hills ever searching
for a man...
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Categories:
affrighted, earth, fire, water,
Form: Free verse
Even As Wind, Horrid Whistling
...Even as wind, horrid whistling
Met with, leaves us then
Shivering for, hours later
As affrighted men
So does a torment, traced from down
Some hall, historical
Produce numbness. Only Time-blow...
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Categories:
affrighted, fear,
Form: Rhyme
The Ways of the Forest
...~ The Ways of the Forest ~
Beckons the forest
Come follow me
My winding trail
will sure delight thee
Through bush and brambles
thickets and clearings
The sun unnoticed...
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Categories:
affrighted, cry, dark, fear, girl,
Form: Narrative
Captured Divine Fulfillment
...Beholding the painting of Jesus Christ’s resurrection
I find myself reliving a glorious occurrence in history
--- captured divine fulfillment ---
Prophesied and recorde...
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Categories:
affrighted, bible, christian, faith, god,
Form: Ekphrasis
Griselda
...There was a garden gnome named Griselda
who lived by my back garden gate
she was nasty and mean, at times quite obscene
to Gregor, her poor garden mate.
She screeched and she stomped as she thr...
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Categories:
affrighted, fantasy, fun, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Athwart Without Surcease
...Athwart Without Surcease — Edzel
Erelong the sphere was contrived,
intrinsically safe with His arms.
Born— soon derived,
and molded from His heart so warm.
Fain to live,
hight to be a no ma...
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Categories:
affrighted, age, birth, time, words,
Form: I do not know?
At the Rising of the Sun
...AT THE RISING OF THE SUN
The sky was slowly brightening with the dawning of the day,
It had been three days and nights now that the Savior there did lay,
But then suddenly an earthquake and the ...
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Categories:
affrighted, easter, jesus,
Form: Lyric
Baboon Face
...a blonde Baboon face
wings around cows tails or hooves
affrighted black crow eyes...
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Categories:
affrighted, adventure,
Form: Senryu
The Shrew
...The feisty woman spewed torrential abuses
He holds her in his arms till her anger defuses
To despair over her phobias he simply refuses
Nightmares of being hated and unloved one day
Cloud he...
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Categories:
affrighted, angst, confusion, death, heart,
Form: Rhyme
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