Pope Joan and Joan Of Arc
...Pope Joan and Joan of Arc
Mysterious women
Both known
For their parts
For hundreds of years
Hidden by history
But time would reveal
What some would not let be
Women dressed like men
Ha...
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Categories:
ask the question, allegory, betrayal, history,
Form: Rhyme
THE PEPPERMAN AND HAMMER THE KITTY
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I OPENED A DOOR IN THE UNIVERSE
AND WAS GREETED BY A SPEAKING
CAT.
HE INTRODUCED HIMSELF AS
HAMMER THE KITTY.
ABOUT 2 FEET LONG AND SOLID
BLACK APPROXIMATELY 12 POUNDS...
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Categories:
ask the question, adventure, creation, culture, image,
Form: Free verse
Just This
...Force that turns glass shards to mists
and causes girders to bend and twist
flesh and bone cannot resist
nor mortal word can console this
pushed to the brink
with blotted ink
the buttons pre...
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Categories:
ask the question, death, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
A New Gospel
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Drugstore parking lots these days are far
more crowded than houses of religion!
And with more people suffering legions
of physical and mental problems, are
we justified to ask the question...
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Categories:
ask the question, dark, humor,
Form: Didactic
Special Indeed
...Special Indeed
God called me to serve in an unlikely place,
Some spoke in different languages; some had a different face.
Lord, are you sure this is where I am to be,
Some cannot walk, speak,...
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Categories:
ask the question, beautiful, blessing,
Form: Other
The Ice Clan
...The clan of Icemen wear their mask
covering their faces while they attach
They try to cover their guilt and shame
But in the house of God that shame remains
In westerns a mask was proof of a robb...
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Categories:
ask the question, abuse, allegory, anger, atheist,
Form: Rhyme
No Cure This Time
...How much time
is left to me,
that answer is not known.
We all do ask the question though,
when is my time to go?
An answer comes to us all
for that you can be sure,
cause life as planned...
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Categories:
ask the question, death, farewell, time,
Form: Rhyme
Prolegomena Soliloquy - Pt 1
...Tell me, my friend,
does infinity not unsettle your reason,
or is it a comfort—to believe it meaningless?
Look beyond the rust of your disbelief—
this isn’t the frostbitten dogma you im...
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Categories:
ask the question, beauty, christian, easter, faith,
Form: Lyric
Questions In Life
...Look around & ask the question
Is this all there is to earthly
life?
Strife & bliss are just distractions
inner but outer forms
of dark and light
Despite illusions you'll come to truth
in o...
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Categories:
ask the question, introspection, perspective, philosophy, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Astronaut
...I stood upon the Great Chinese Wall
and drank a pint of alcohol.
'Twas then I had a thought,
and heaved a heavy sigh.
A bird is happy in the sky
when he spreads his wings to fly.
He is so, ...
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Categories:
ask the question, bird, flying, mental illness,
Form: Rhyme
THE NOW CONTINUUM
...THE NOW CONTINUUM
Now might linger forever, or be a mere instant
Yet an end to the present may look ever distant
It fights for survival about which it is so insistent
But it may struggle to be ...
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Categories:
ask the question, time,
Form: Rhyme
Our Love
...Your body pressed up against mine
Your hands running through my hair
you make it feel like a crime
Your absence makes me feel so bare
The dark light up above
The skin to skin feeling
I know we...
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Categories:
ask the question, feelings, inspirational love, proposal,
Form: Sonnet
Living With Uncertainty, Chaos and Corruption
...The world is constantly changing
People are steadily rearranging
Life seems to be a gigantic nightmare
Keep moving, but never getting there
This country was built on the backs of slaves
O...
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Categories:
ask the question, confusion, corruption, spoken word,
Form: Free verse
Do You Know Me
...Author Dana Redricks
November 23, 2024
Do you really know me? Let me ask the question. Do you know the tears I've shed and the love that I've wished I've had and words swirling inside my head.
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Categories:
ask the question, christian, conflict, deep, depression,
Form: Free verse
SUPPRESSING THE VOTE
...Suppressing The Vote
People get involved, get out and vote
Your rights being dissolved, just take note
No policies to offer, so they revert to cheating
Rather than being fair, just take the bea...
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Categories:
ask the question, betrayal, change, community,
Form: Rhyme
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