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Premium Member Saint Nicholas, the Bishop In Red
A little girl approached her mother and said to her one day
"Santa Claus is not real, that's what all my friends say"
 Her tears began...

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Categories: bishop, children, christmas, inspirational,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member Heavenly Body - Limerick Collaboration - Bawdy
A nubile young vicar named Jude
Was seen swimming, totally nude
The bishop said WOW
Just look at you now
Your assets - they need to be viewed!

Fiction write!

07-05-17

Invited...

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Categories: bishop, body, humorous,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Permanent Check-Mate
I am standing naked on a crowded street
But nobody seems to be noticing me
I am less embarrassed by my nakedness
Than by my invisibility

They all seem...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: bishop, allegory, introspection, life, me,
Form: Rhyme
Check Mate
Go ahead and make the first move, 
but take care 
One or two spaces so I can move 
to my square
Game of life, I’m queen...

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Categories: bishop, love, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Sound of Silence - Lady Hawke - With Darren White
Synopsis
The lovely Lady Isabeau and her lover, medieval French Knight Etienne escape to flee the lustful advances of wicked Bishop of Aquila causing them to...

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Categories: bishop, betrayal, desire, emotions, evil,
Form: Dramatic Verse



Saturn - God's Favorite
SATURN    -   GOD’S    FAVORITE


This  floating sovereign rules her black see *
Like an Inquisition bishop  -...

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Categories: bishop, dedication, me, beauty, beauty,
Form: Couplet
Premium Member The Formidable Gambit
"The Formidable Gambit"



Silence 
calculated and distinct

conspiring with rules
plays within the 
confined squares

of a strict and
ruthless mind
preying on all moves

untraceable 
unpredictable 
irretrievable 

in the opening move
the...

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Categories: bishop, courage, dark, faith, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beautiful Frivolous Queen
Beautiful, frivolous queen bided her time. 
The castle stood tall and strong.
Silence reigned.  No one dared to speak.
Below the enemy had gathered ready for...

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Categories: bishop, analogy, riddle,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lost In Britain and Lost In The USA
LOST IN BRITAIN

Poling, Patching, Nether Wallop, 
Matching Tye and Droop

Plumpton, Lickfold, Puddletown, 
Westward Ho! and Throop.

Hole of Horcum, New Invention,
Boghead, Frome, Cat's Ash

North Piddle, Staines...

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Categories: bishop, america, england, humor, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Forgotten Times
Momma's in the kitchen frying chicken
Daddy's got the game on the old TV
Two brother's playing and fighting in the parlor
It's just the way things used...

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Categories: bishop, childhood, family, happiness, nostalgia,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Cheese and Wine Party
I went to a cheese and wine party on Saturday,
where huge platters of cheese were on display.
There was Gorgonzola and creamy white Brie,
I devoured huge...

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Categories: bishop, food, humorous,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Checkmate
why will men fight and suffer to advance the interests of their masters, who fling them aside when they have no further use for them?

Arthur...

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Categories: bishop, death, metaphor, war,
Form: Rhyme
Our Lady of Guadalupe
our lady of Guadalupe stands alight in corner air
her gown emerald, cerise, gold
Don Pedro stands afore
glass to glass in an amber glow
Lowry’s beaked bird of...

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Categories: bishop, addiction, history, journey, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member At Last Freedom Reigns

God Knows Where I Am 
A Tribute To Linda Bishop
________________


Within the inevitable passing of time
The seasons fled like a distant dream

~

With the coming of spring
The...

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Categories: bishop, death, life, may, mental
Form: Verse
The Game of Life
CHESS GAME
Chess, friend imitates life
and every movement has its time
and to everything the soul gives lair
and all body incorporates ...

           QUEEN
Always unusual,
vain...
Eccentric
and singular
her force causes
noise ......

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Categories: bishop, analogy, surreal, wisdom,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things