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Premium Member My Prayer For Today
My Prayer For Today
7/22/2019
Written: by Miracle Man

Lord, guard my tongue in things I say,
Let your son Jesus be my light today.

Let each of my thoughts...

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© Tom Wright  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: accountable, prayer,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Survival In the Midst of Ignorance
My prayers are not asking you to
 
save me from my enemy.
 
My children have turned their backs.
 
They praise dance with many
 
Adversaries-
 
When...

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Categories: accountable, analogy, spoken word, wisdom,
Form: Classicism
Self Inflicted Blues
This day I grow tired
and so incredibly weary.
My heart holds only dreams
of a Life unfullfilled
A Life not nurtured,
yet barely a glimmer
of the spirit that once...

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Categories: accountable, hope, life, me, age,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heroic Crown of Sonnets 1
1.Remembrance

Remembrance of guilt from pages turned brown,
Opened and read inside rooms of my mind.
Written through time with tears sliding down.
I will claim each dung lit...

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Categories: accountable, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member When Yesterday's Song Forfeited Rhythm
When yesterday’s song forfeited rhythm
And past surrendered to dreams undone,

Spontaneous clamor of poignant echoes
Shattered her image in saddened mirror
Disillusioned by her heart’s revelation.

Merely clinging to...

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Categories: accountable, emotions, heartbreak, love hurts,
Form: Free verse



Race the Finals Spoken Word
I wish to
Relay
To all of my people the importance of sticking together as a 
team

And that
Because we have run 
through the preliminary trials as selfish...

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Categories: accountable, africa, black african american,
Form: Rhyme
One Knee
Poet:  Ken Jordan 
Poem:  One Knee 
Edited by:  Sparkle Jordan 
written:  September 2017


One Knee

Yes, I kneel down on one knee 
damn...

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Categories: accountable, africa, america, betrayal,
Form: Prose Poetry
Me Too
There's a movement going on
But it shouldn't have taken this long
Me too, Me three, Me four, Me five
Sexual harassment and rape has affected our lives.
Tortured...

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Categories: accountable, society,
Form: Acrostic
Premium Member Distinguishing Right From Wrong, Enablers, and the Enabled
My subject is nothing new.  It's been around since Adam and Eve.  Like the 
snake and the apple.

It's the enabled kid who throws...

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Categories: accountable, children, growing up, integrity,
Form: Free verse
I Told You
I TOLD YOU

I told you that Uncle Danny touched me
It hurt and made me cry
I told you I didn’t like him
You said I shouldn’t lie.
I...

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Categories: accountable, abuse, anger, child abuse,
Form: Quatrain
Premium Member As Dark Clouds
Descends over the mountains 
a blanket of suffering thunder
The fork between two tongues sings 
truth always comes to light 
under angel rays expelling echoes 

A...

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Categories: accountable, hate, love, peace, poverty,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Dear Dad
Dear DaD,
Please do not think of me and weep. 
I did not die on that dim lit street.
I'm the sun that shines on you in...

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Categories: accountable, death, forgiveness, loss, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gift of Love
Regardless of our faith, in Love we can believe,
For Love's within us all, if we choose to retrieve.
Should we choose to leave Love in a...

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Categories: accountable, giving, love,
Form: Rhyme
What Is This Life
What is this life…reality?
Why do I question it relentlessly so?
So many moments seemingly meaningless
Meandering through this meaningful sentience,
Chronology…
Continuity…
Spirituality…
But reality, Oxford will tell you:
Property of being...

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Categories: accountable, allusion, art, confusion, crazy,
Form: Alliteration
Paris
To all who have been touched by evil

Paris

Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite

We shout louder, always love, peace, tolerance, liberte…a world one in unity.

We are not afraid of...

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Categories: accountable, violence,
Form: Prose

Book: Shattered Sighs