Tilt
...The machine lit up
like a small cathedral—
chrome saints hopping
under glass,
the silver gospel
of the pinball
spinning wild
between my hands.
It was my birthday—
twenty-one—
and free b...
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Categories:
avenged, birthday, cat, drink, funny,
Form: Free verse
Ember Girl
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Born orphan, the torture of her stepmother and stepsisters
shaped the fairy tale Cinderella with fire, the ember girl,
who didn’t dream seeing the dormant love bloom,
but seethed within to tak...
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Categories:
avenged, fire, imagination,
Form: Free verse
The Frog And The Chameleon
...From out of the lacustrine,dense tract, green
Lining the silent mossy forlorn lake keen ,
Came out leaping and hopping,a fat frog ;
He landed and stopped on a reedy clog ,
As he saw the Chameleo...
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Categories:
avenged, nature,
Form: Narrative
Venom Of Love
...A candlelit room, love's sweet embrace,
A romantic setup, a magical space.
Soft music playing, filling the air,
As they danced together, without a care.
Where love could blossom at its prime,
W...
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Categories:
avenged, 11th grade, death, deep,
Form: Elegy
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO REMEMBERS US WHILE HE ANSWERS OUR PRAYERS
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March 23 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 16-18
Key Verse – Judges 16:28 And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, ...
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Categories:
avenged, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Jerusalem
...In love and in war all is fair
This is no consolation but a scare
Ye gloat but it is loss and death that ye dare
And it is at requiem masses ye remember prayer
Ye clamor to justify a side’s ca...
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Categories:
avenged, destiny, fate, peace, war,
Form: Rhyme
Vanished Into the Sun Trapped In a Butterfly
...I want to plummet backward and die through the rip in the sky. Be reborn as a ball of yarn untwisted and undone not to be avenged but forgiven I want to spread my string my flaming wings. Get me away...
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Categories:
avenged, beautiful, birth,
Form: Imagism
Lord God, You Are My Prayer Responder
...March 11 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Judges 16-18
Key Verse –Judges 16:28 And Samson called unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me,...
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Categories:
avenged, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Echo
...Like, from within boiled kettles raise sprites, Maya the Echo,
Dominates Marvel Comics with her facial art deco;
Adopted daughter of Kingpin, lion-like rough villain,
Kills her father; rears her...
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Categories:
avenged, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Our Peoples' Values, Part Iii
......But as Burning Wing approached them
three leapt up with long knives in hand,
and dragged Burning Wing from his horse,
down onto the rough desert sands.
Todd cried out as the knives slashed d...
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Categories:
avenged, culture, friendship, history, hope,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
Deicide
...'cause some of us have had enough of this hell
some search heaven for redemption
and she too
but more for being disgusted
and when she up there arrived
stabbed to death the deity
and on the ...
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Categories:
avenged, death, god, woman,
Form: Free verse
Jephthahs Daughter
...If you make a vow to the Lord your God, you shall not delay fulfilling it, for the Lord your God will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. But if you refrain from vowing, you will...
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Categories:
avenged, bible, father daughter,
Form: Narrative
Lies Fit Persons Who Are Dishonest
...Lies fit person s who are dishonest,
let them not be your vain quest
or that reason for quick conquest;
envy is so evil and causes unrest!
Telling an untruth is blunt,
it's hammering hardwood...
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Categories:
avenged, anger, character, emotions, evil,
Form: Rhyme
Marigold
...She was a gunslinger from way back.
She kept this under her hat.
A secret from everyone except the women she avenged.
They called her Marigold, because of her flowers.
When women who had been wro...
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Categories:
avenged, anti bullying,
Form: Prose Poetry
Crimson Tide
...Corona inflamed
red sun, wan in a smoked haze
Invisible algal bloom
marine, now airborne
searing land as it takes off
on fevered wings around Earth
Noxious fumes surround…
This culmination o...
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Categories:
avenged, environment,
Form: Choka
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