Be Permitted Poems

Premium MemberDon't Say You Didn't Know

...When darkness falls
When you find your freedoms 
Fantasy,
Don't say you didn't know.

The Tyrant told us all, for many years,
What he intends
Though he speaks mountains of lies 
Regarding spe...
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Categories: be permitted, anger, courage, emotions, evil,
Form: Blank verse

Oh, Momma

...They called it terminating a pregnancy you know,
like they were canceling some out-of-date TV show.
If you don’t like the song do you kill the radio,
Oh Momma, surely there has to be a better way....
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Categories: be permitted, poetry,
Form: Rhyme


Mama I Love You To No End

...I know I pushed your buttons more than
  I can count 
I know I have given you extra silver strands  
 though I like it on you (wink) 
I know I have caused you some sleepless  
 nights and ruined...
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Categories: be permitted, devotion, love, mother daughter,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBack To Nature

..."Can you feel the soul of an abandoned house;
can you hear the whispering? " 
Quote by _Constance La France 

I suspect that most major cities have abandoned houses.
I have lived in three large ...
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Categories: be permitted, childhood, home, house,
Form: Narrative

Family Strokes

...1.The dogma of atheist does not contain any stance
(positive nor negative)about any form of incest.
about pig eating,about swine soup,about fried frogs,
about consensual gaang baang etcetera.
2.M...
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Categories: be permitted, abortion, atheist, brother, native
Form: Didactic


Premium MemberLove That Is Blind

...They say in his old age, Isaac was blind
    yet like his father Abraham, unusually kind

  Rebecca, his wife, came from a family evil and cruel
    her brother Laban tried to rob Eliezer of all ...
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Categories: be permitted, betrayal, blessing, family, future,
Form: Couplet

Unspoken

...Let the Melancholics delight at your beauty tonight.
From the bossom of ecstacy down to the purity of heart
You are indeed a ravine work of art
A million words can't define you
Yes, beautiful can...
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Categories: be permitted, appreciation,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPreaching To the Choir

...Wow, to have seen "the choirs of angels continually singing His praise!" :O
Dear St. Faustina, I imagine you were very pure to be permitted this gaze!

You wrote that the angels would envy Communi...
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Categories: be permitted, angel, books, jealousy, jesus,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberTaking Leave

...I am giving up on poets for
a day – not poetry! just needing a break 
from Communal Escapism: I mean, it is
nice to write of meadows and bird songs – 
of the past, how things were; of the future,...
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Categories: be permitted, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse

History of Havard Yard

...Okay. So, according to her license plate, Sarah had something to do with the name “Welbeck Street” and had once asked if the Journal would consider using “Harvard Yard” in her name. Also according to...
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Categories: be permitted, america, people, poems, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberOverwhelmed

...Overwhelmed

Sometimes it feels like it will never be OK
It goes on and on and on
Darkness creeps in and you cannot see the light
Prayers seem to have fallen upon deafened ears
Does evil contin...
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Categories: be permitted, inspirational, prayer,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberThe Pledge of Egregiousness

...All white Westerners and Western ideas are inherently evil
Indigenous peoples are all naturally kind and good 24/7
White Western governments are all systemically racist

It is biologically imposs...
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Categories: be permitted, bible, freedom, satire, spoken
Form: Free verse

Sometimes, But

...Sometimes I wish I didn't have children
(Not because I don't love them
I do
Wholeheartedly
Ridiculously
Almost to a fault)
Because I'm tired of letting them down.

And without children
I'd b...
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Categories: be permitted, children, depression, sometimes,
Form: Free verse

Teacher Teacher

...These lyrics I write may sound unkind
But black and white crime should not be permitted in these time
Teacher, teacher why do you choose to make me the monkey of the school
Is it because you think...
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Categories: be permitted, anti bullying, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Rhyme

The Inner Chamber

...THE INNER CHAMBER

Please.  Stop holding back on me.

Like a child standing at the neighborhood ice cream truck, arm outstretched, eyes huge, mouth watering.

I stand here longing to slip under...
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Categories: be permitted, betrayal, courage, devotion, love,
Form: Prose

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