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Best Better To Give Than To Receive Poems

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Premium Member Faith Hope Charity
Faith will lead the way                    ...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, faith, giving, heaven, hope,
Form: Acrostic



Premium Member I Wonder What He Would Say
If a stranger came among us, I wonder what he’d say?
I think a truth he’d share with me, as we strolled along the way
“It’s not...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: better to give than to receive, adventure, angel, giving, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member How Can We Learn To Love
When you see others hurting and your heart doesn’t cry,
Look inside and ask yourself the answer to your why?
The path we’re given here on Earth...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: better to give than to receive, care, giving, heart, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member O' Broken Heart, What Shall All This Now Bring
O' Broken Heart, What Shall All This Now Bring

Burn away, festering skies filled with pain!
Cast forth burning embers onto the bleating flock!
Let loose, sky demons...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, anger, art, conflict, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Written In Stone
The holy way to live,
so long ago revealed to us,
was written in stone:
In the beginning ... in God’s own image
Flesh of my flesh, bone of...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, religious, spiritual, truth, wisdom,
Form: Verse



Premium Member Fellowship and Love
It is a wonderful feeling when we come together in love and fellowship.
psalm 133:1 says Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethern...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, thank you, upliftinggod, god,
Form: Lyric
Boxer's Motto
to hit and not to be hit, boxers believe

          each jab, each punch to chance they...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, on work and working,
Form: Limerick
The Jingle of Sleigh Bells
The Jingle of sleigh bells, herald
His coming on Christmas Eve
When Santa Claus takes the time
To fill our stocking and I believe
That Santa Claus thinks sincerely...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, holiday
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member If a Stranger Came Among Us
I wonder what he’d say to me as we strolled along the way.
I think a truth he’d share with me, and here’s what he might...

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© Bill Baker  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: better to give than to receive, identity, journey, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Jeremiah Slade
He rode in to Santa Fe one summer day on a broken-down, sweaty nag.
All he owned was the clothes on his back and the Bible...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, humorous, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Seven Simple Questions
Every Christian is called to ask
While working with Master’s task
Seven simple questions always
Evaluating what one’s spiritual growth says.

If sin in heart had we cherished,
God our...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, dedicationgod, me, heart, god,
Form: Rhyme Royal
There Is
There is
this concern of stars
hovering, ober, our heads…
Heady stuff, what awaits above!
methodologies, of those southern
less-than-gentel-men
who muck about so
much upon our lives…
exist, or exit; what
other choices...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, anger, angst, body, dark,
Form: Rhyme
Empyrean Vehemence
What is this reeling throughout my being?
I gaze into the mirror; albeit elusive to eyes seeing…
Churning with pleasant burning, emotions swimming with eloquence…
With ease…
With ease…
I...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Giving
To those of you with hearts of gold,
who believe it is better to give than to receive.
Be mindful, and wary as life does unfold,
you may...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, care, conflict, giving, wisdom,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Christmas Presents
I've been around for more Christmases than I care to remember,
But I'm still filled with excitement as Yuletide nears in December,
Hoping that when I open...

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Categories: better to give than to receive, funny, heart, holiday,
Form: Rhyme

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