Dead sea
...I bathed, one day, in the Dead Sea,
My belly floated like a piece of wood
The water was so salty, it stung the skin
It was necessary to go out and take a good shower,
I have not known Jesus, me...
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Categories:
baptiste, faith, sea,
Form: Free verse
Natural Selection
...Everything is selected carefully for the making of the queen. Everything is selected carefully before the queen gets married to the deal. The temperament of the mother and the father was tested in th...
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Categories:
baptiste, body, business, caregiving, celebrity,
Form: Narrative
Clerihew Greuze
...Jean Baptiste Greuze truth to tell
his art stories are still known well
The French revolution was his downfall
dying in poverty his final call...
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Categories:
baptiste, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
Acknowledgements
...1. John Desmond Patrick Keegan
2. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3. Sally Aline Mae Beller
4. Charles Edward A. Berry
5. Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce
6. Béla Ferenc Dezso Blaskó
7. Joh...
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Categories:
baptiste, appreciation, dedication, inspiration,
Form: List
Woke Up September 6th 2020
...Woke up (September 6th, 2020)...
Got outta bed boot
did not drag comb against head
of beetle browed foo fighter,
he did not arise
bright eyed (by George), nor bushy tailed
to bucket flush to...
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Categories:
baptiste, blessing, celebration, fate, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Lully, Jean-Baptiste, Lwv 55
...~~~T H E I N T R E P I D P E G A S U S~~~
Star angels, dance within the quartered, light,
Of lunars rise, the age of Virgos' flight,
Sense its need for virtuous surrender,
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Categories:
baptiste, allegory, angel, dance, fantasy,
Form: Sonnet
My Identity
...(none fiction)
My name is Nagella Jean-Baptiste
I am from the Caribbean far away
Oh yes! of course I am legal resident in America.
I did not come in the USA illegally.
My childhood was not per...
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Categories:
baptiste, feelings,
Form: Bio
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
...For being incorrect and insane,
Your ideas are shared commonly.
Perhaps you should have stuck with
Invertebrates and botany…
Despite common belief, you argued
That life was not fixed,
And tha...
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Categories:
baptiste, change, science, wisdom,
Form: Quatrain
Baptiste
...Baptiste is not coming back
He is gone for good
ICE was always on his track
He did all he could
Baptiste mother cries, he's gone
They took him from the early dawn
His gone for good
He did all he coul...
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Categories:
baptiste, political,
Form: Rhyme
Powerless
...Six forty eight,
sitting in a cab at Madison and LaSalle.
Present in hand, Spongebob encased.
A look at the schedule just to confirm
the train leaves at seven PM.
There’s shade in this canyon
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Categories:
baptiste,
Form: Free verse