TALLEYRAND
...Silk stocking filled with mud was Talleyrand.
With the future of France held in his hand,
He played kibitzer-informed cards with skill,
Maneuvering a Congress to his will.
There once was a Marq...
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Categories:
backslidden, baptism, future, love, smart,
Form: Clerihew
Kadesh
...Spies, scout out the Promised Land.
Let our eyes see what God has planned.
Never mind what He's already done,
Can we trust the powerful One?
When we saw the Anakites there,
The terror was too ...
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Categories:
backslidden, bible, christian, courage, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Remembering Sylvia Plath
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What she might have been was hidden
Beneath self-destruction and depression
Despair so black it silenced light, war-ridden
Life without purpose, true love forbidden
Leaving darkest ...
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Categories:
backslidden, angst, anxiety, confusion, death,
Form: Villanelle
Hidden Agenda
...HIDDEN AGENDA:
It's on record,
Stripping naked in a rainfall.
A prelim lost of freedom,
Heddled by a downfall,
Highlighted with boredom.
The journey is so wrong,
And the prelim wants to h...
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Categories:
backslidden, corruption, dark,
Form: Lyric
In Our Dead Church
...Our attendance is a mere formality, a routine unconnected to the hearts
We sing, but not to the True God,
We pray with wondering Hearts
Even Prayers are dead, it is a mere routine of minutes
T...
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Categories:
backslidden, analogy, anxiety, death, devotion,
Form: Ballade
I Know Someone Who Can Change the Way We Think
...Do you know people who base their opinions of others solely—
or primarily—on their worst actions and words, some of which
may have occurred years ago? People who think this way may
get around to ...
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Categories:
backslidden, judgement, prayer,
Form: Free verse
O Let Us Return To Where We Came From---
...O LET US RETURN TO WHERE WE CAME FROM---
Oh, come let us return unto the Lord
Come to the place that we once was
Come let us return
Let us return
Let us return unto the Lord
You have decide...
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Categories:
backslidden, appreciation, assonance, inspirational,
Form: Lyric
People Do Change
...When backslidden Christians repent and are back firmly in the fold,
some believers rejoice with them, while doubters cast looks haughty and cold.
God, please remind them that anyone, through YOU, c...
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Categories:
backslidden, change, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
My Soul, You Need To Turn To God
...My backslidden soul*, you were converted by GOD’s Word
As shown by your divine growth and testimony ’s record,
But you departed away from that great spiritual cord
Broken by worldly financ...
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Categories:
backslidden, christian, courage, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Trial of Our Lives
...(AT the appeal court)
Here I am,
Standing in the dock once again.
For the evil one had sought and gotten an appeal of God's prior judgement.
With his legal standing,
The devil named me as...
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Categories:
backslidden, analogy, christian, courage, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
A Backslidden Brother
...A Backslidden Brother…
I have a brother, who once loved God and his word!
It was God’s call on his life, that he once heard!
He was raised in church and taught God’s ways!
And promised to s...
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Categories:
backslidden, anger, angst, brother, change,
Form: Rhyme
Good Ol' Triple-Six and the Eternal Drive-By - Part 2
...- and, anyway, who breaks wind over double-M, a. k. a. Manson,
Marilyn?
I'll give a ride on my razor any day to
The-Second-Prime-of-Nine-to-the-Sixth,
who was around long before CD's, DVD's, MTV,...
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Categories:
backslidden, hope, inspirational, jesus,
Form: Free verse
For the Just
...What the sinner man,
Thinks he has sowed,
Up. God really has it,
Laid up for the just.
So don't hate when,
The sinner man has,
Coins that are fake.
God can put that on,
Your p...
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Categories:
backslidden, inspirational, lifegod, bible, bible,
Form: Rhyme
Used To
...I used to always say,
I would never ever,
Be backslidden some day.
I used to always say,
That would never be me,
No how, no way.
I used to always say,
I refuse to give up,
That I was h...
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Categories:
backslidden, faith, hope, inspirational, life,
Form: Rhyme
Ordinary People (© Confrontation Set Volume 1/Albert Reed 2007)
...I’ve been up and I’ve been down.
I’ve been strung out in the gutter somehow.
I’ve been hungry and yes I have eaten.
I’ve been rich and I’ve been poor.
I’ve been married and I’ve been sing...
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Categories:
backslidden, inspirationalpeople, people,
Form: I do not know?
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