MAGDALENE: JEWEL OF JESUS
... MAGDALENE : JEWEL OF JESUS
She was the Chosen
a beckoned one
to ignite His speeches
smooth it with her own
illustrious strength
‘Courage against Odds’
marked her inner...
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Categories:
benignly, character, courage, death, emotions,
Form: Epic
Ah methinks I could sleep forever
...Ah... methinks I could sleep forever
Basking in a supine position
with eyes wide shut
while the space heater churns out
fast moving molecules of heat
solitudinarian drowsy thinker fêted
by mi...
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Categories:
benignly, adventure, appreciation, atheist, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
NOSSIS ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS
...NOSSIS
There is nothing sweeter than love.
All other delights are secondary.
Thus, I spit out even honey.
This is what Gnossis says:
Whomever Aphrodite does not love,
Is bereft of her roses.
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Categories:
benignly, beautiful, body, dance, heaven,
Form: Epigram
Luck
...Luck = opportunity + preparation.
What luck is not
Is getting what you want.
What luck is
Is surviving what you don't want.
To wish someone luck
Is merely to apply
The odds of probability
And...
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Categories:
benignly, perspective,
Form: Blank verse
The Tenth Twilight
...Twas' a mellowing twilight on the end of the day
Where the whispers of dusk benignly sway
when the weary traveler of orange bid adieu
varnishing the sky with amber and blue
As the shadows lengthe...
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Categories:
benignly, introspection, nature, perspective, weather,
Form: Rhyme
Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person
...Fraught as an extremely socially anxious younger person...
hashtagged introvertedness trademark
silently exorcised, ostracized, and vilified
Impossible mission to resuscitate...
a forsaken prom...
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Categories:
benignly, 7th grade, abuse, anger,
Form: Rhyme
It Started With A Blank Canvas
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A blank canvas I marvel on
Unfolding a springtime theme,
As it yawns to life among the dawn.
Clouds part for the sun's scattered bright rays upon
Sweet tender jewels, exquisite to the ey...
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Categories:
benignly, nature,
Form: Free verse
Poetry Is
...Poetry is the moment when the heart,
Enters the silence and hears the loudest burst of light,
The darkest fear, the most innocent tear…
The blazing passion, the roaring of faith, the memory,
The ...
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Categories:
benignly, appreciation, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Cattle Egret
...CATTLE EGRET
Makinde Adebayo Adeniyi
Silken, snow-white feathers
Slender, elegant legs
Lovely long sinuous neck
Beautiful and benignly noble head
Stout, straight, sharp beaks
The cattle...
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Categories:
benignly, animal, nature,
Form: Free verse
Pope Frances
...Pope Frances
It is a warm sunny day in Lisbon, the pope sits atop of
Mercedes Jeep, he looks like an easy target for assassins
Men in black suits and open jackets hurry alongside the jeep
exc...
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Categories:
benignly, best friend, chanukah, dance,
Form: Blank verse
Tunde Canada
...The story of his pomposity
The gaiety of a been-to
Embroidered in revenge.
Tunde Canada!
Timid and denied by folks and friends
In his prime when the springboard, the hemisphere
At the time ...
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Categories:
benignly, discrimination, metaphor, pride, rude,
Form: Free verse
Man of the Year
...Santa Claus, a man born for the Anniversary of Jesus our savior Babe
Another year has passed. As we celebrate the Anniversary of Christ
Rays of light benignl...
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Categories:
benignly, devotion,
Form: Acrostic
Decolonizing Capitalism
...We are nearly all macro-economic capitalists
Yet micro-economic cooperativists
with those we trust
S/he said
while burning up
and out.
Yet,
a Patriarchal Capitalist
has also fully monopol...
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Categories:
benignly, bullying, earth, environment, games,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
And My Arnold Spoke Up
...You bought me as your loving pet; well trained and tamed,
From a cattle-fair; I was two; handsome; zestful;
You did not like cats and dogs as they turned nuisance -
I heard you saying to my owner...
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Categories:
benignly, animal, pets,
Form: Personification
On a Child Died
...My dearest little Beautiful Butterfly!
It’s not so long,
Since the hasty hands of Time,
Snatched you away from us,
Abruptly, unpredictably...
Time snatches away,
Living as well as non-livin...
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Categories:
benignly, child, death,
Form: Free verse
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