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I Am
I am Tim
I am Tim
Tim I am
That Tim-I-am!
That Tim-I-am!

I do not like
that Tim-I-am!
Do you like
green eggs and ham?
I do not like them,
Tim-I-am.
I do not like
green...

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Categories: 500, me,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Power
April 25 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 23-25

*2 Chronicles 25:8 But if thou wilt go, do it, be strong for the battle:...

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Categories: 500, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member As For Me I Believe
It is the winter of 1980.
I’m twenty-eight years young, 
Driving a red Mustang with glass T-tops,
Feeling all of my awesome sassiness, from toe
To Afro, when...

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Categories: 500, adventure, angel, blessing, christian,
Form: Metrical Tale
Premium Member The Big Question For Those of Little Faith
Energy is neither created, nor destroyed
but does transform
witness the log burning in the fireplace
cellulose and lignin combining with oxygen
yielding heat, water and CO2
and with you...

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Categories: 500, life,
Form: Free verse
Open Your Eyes Open Your Mind Say I'M Not Going To Take It Anymore
Do you see What I see?
Dr Fauci says to wear a mask and social distance, it will prevent the spread of the virus. Has it,...

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Categories: 500, america, anxiety, goodbye, storm,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Lili Marlene
Lili Marlene

In times of war, love can subdue cynical adversaries
(Men separated from their vocation, now filled with hatred)
And quell the beast inside their misdirected hearts,
And...

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Categories: 500, history, memorial day, remembrance
Form: Verse
Premium Member Drivin' Along a Country Road
When I need an uplift for my weary soul and to clear my muddled mind.
I slowly cruise along a country road to see what treasures...

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Categories: 500, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When You Wear a Dirty Shirt
When you wear a dirty shirt,
You're a book getting judged by its cover.
People think you're really poor, or nutty,
Or that you have a menial job.
Or...

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Categories: 500, humor,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Seat of Kings
A stone round standing fortress crowns forever beauty
The name translated to english Grianan means sunny spot or sun temple
The land bows down inspirational the view...

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Categories: 500, beautiful, green, inspirational, ireland,
Form: Free verse
Broken Afrikaans
die briesie van herlewing kom saam met u besoek

daar is 'n hindernis van byna 500 jaar wat ons suiwerheid geskei het

in velkleur, godsdiens en verhoudings
ons...

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Categories: 500, abortion, adventure, black african
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 13
Now I enter a new day with nervous breaths

A return of innocence

The red balloon that you want to win
In summer’s carnival

That hand you want to...

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Categories: 500, friendship, hope, life, love,
Form: Free verse
Joan of Arc, For God and Country
Joan of Arc – For God and Country

On the feast of the Three Kings was born,
a baby girl, in 1412, under the sign of Capricorn....

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Categories: 500, christian, courage, destiny, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Forgotten Angel
A FORGOTTEN ANGEL

Who was she?  They wondered
No one knew her name
Where did she live?  They wondered
No one ever saw her playing
How old was...

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Categories: 500, angel, anger, betrayal, child
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ten Years, Somewhere In Their Lost Neighbourhood
“Ten Years, Somewhere in their Lost Neighbourhood”

Of course,
he said, like a god,
there is no course,
one must simply go with the flow
the penumbra stands waivering its...

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Categories: 500, muse,
Form: Narrative
A Piece of Cake
500 grms Stardust
2 Tablespoons of Rose dew
2 Tablespoons of Lavender
Zest of suggestion
25 Kisses
50 Smiles
10 Pieces of candle light
25 Heartbeats
 2 Holding hands
12 Passion flowers
Sprinklea few...

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Categories: 500, funny
Form: I do not know?

Book: Reflection on the Important Things