No Time to Say Goodbye
...She slowly began to slip away,
Then suddenly she was gone.
At 1:00 am she could not stay
And died hours before dawn.
She died too fast for me to say,
“Please stay, don’t move on.”
And other ...
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Categories:
besets, death, lost love, wife,
Form: Elegy
PRAISE BE TO GOD WHO INSTRUCTS US TO BRING HIM OFFERINGS
...January 26 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Exodus 25-27
Key Verse – Exodus 25:1-2 And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offeri...
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Categories:
besets, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
Desperate Hope
..."In fleeting moments of clarity, a non PM declares
*Quote by The Poet.*
. Desolate images flood into the passages of my m...
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Categories:
besets, angst,
Form: Quatrain
OVERCOMING JANUS' FACED BEHAVIOUR
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Attacked by Janus-faced complexity
My mind responds with functionality
To present either sheer timidity
Or self-entitlement tenacity.
Gripped with hypocrisy’s duplicity
I succumb ...
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Categories:
besets, blessing, character, christian, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Sadness Besets Isereal
...Woe upon woe..The world reels, claim and counter
Claim..' Yet Isreal has embraced the decadence of
The west.' The whole world is thrown in turmoil.' There
Is not so much worship in spirit and trut...
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Categories:
besets, age, angst, education, emotions,
Form: Free verse
The Four Seasons
...Don’t know that I have
a favorite season
I mean, Spring is quite
nice, if you don’t mind
sneezin’
Summer, warmly teasing!
Till sunburn besets the host,
unarguably not pleasing
Winter s...
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Categories:
besets, humor, humorous, poetry, poets,
Form: Free verse
Almost There
...Quartered buttons and doldrums
fill in—if not
for the scorn of silence
her inmost being wrestles
for the nth time.
Why hearing all
this screech of dust
imbued in every corner?
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Categories:
besets, courage, deep,
Form: Free verse
Marionettes of Pied
...You motormouths, that pull the strings of life,
Marionettes of Pied that seek confusion.
Your piper teeth are chattering with strife,
Like a Jedi, with wave of hand delusion
“Come one! Come all!”...
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Categories:
besets, humor,
Form: Ottava rima
Whom Do You Trust
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Whom Do You Trust
Short Poem: by Miracle Man
1-21-2023
Whatever besets me or my day entails,
I’ll keep the faith knowing God prevails.
By trusting in HIM I can forego details,
my tr...
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Categories:
besets, god, jesus, trust,
Form: Quatrain
How Do You Feel
...empty words without meaning
words mumbled for mere formality
lost in rolling endless echoes
we understand the game
and agree it's nothing personal
just filler to mask the silence that besets ...
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Categories:
besets, feelings, friendship, integrity, lonely,
Form: Free verse
Falling Down
...Side effect of intelligence,
paradoxical mind embrace
Negative thoughts seep in,
an experience of disgrace
The price for overthinking,
purpose trickles to a trace
So starts chain reaction...
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Categories:
besets, allusion, depression, mental illness,
Form: Monorhyme
Their March
...Their March
So, you dropped by to learn where the Future soon will be
And what the fascist’s creed will ultimately decree.
Constructed oh so steadily by Republican traitor calls
The fascist aci...
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Categories:
besets, betrayal, political,
Form: Rhyme
Perchance In Dreams
...no hocus pocus
reality feels bogus
dreams zap our focus
abstract besets real locus
if for love then who woke us
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Categories:
besets, confusion, how i feel,
Form: Tanka
Daily Prayer
...When I
wake each morning
The first thing that I do
is to fold my hands together
And have a talk with you,
I do thank you,
Dear God.
Your love
Many blessings
from the heavens above
I know ...
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Categories:
besets, prayer,
Form: Verse
His Eyes
...Beside the railway
barefooted I walk
into silhouetted trails:
And as twilight descends
upon cascading tears of nothingness~
old pavement darkens
until all I see
is a quandary
of black labyrin...
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Categories:
besets, dark, love,
Form: Free verse
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