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Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cast down, horror,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Eve of Evening
Where to turn, oh friend I ask
I chose to turn to you,
if you'd be so kind. 

Though I try hard to describe the beauty 
heard...

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Categories: cast down, eve, life, music,
Form: 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: cast down, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
The Return of the Gay Knight
For my satire group, and for Will; a fairy tale

To a fanfare of horns
The young knight returned
With a tale of slain dragons to tell
The princesses...

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Categories: cast down, community, fantasy, humor, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Part 2 - Earthbound Angels Made of Stone - An Epic
Those evil thorns of bitterness
That couldn't bear to see
This child so loved and so adored
By their father
Captain Lee

Until one day in early May
When she went...

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Categories: cast down, abuse, angel, baby, black
Form: Epic



When the Trumpet Sounds
Where will you be when the trumpet sounds

When the call comes with an 
amazing surprise
A shout is heard by all who leave 
these grounds
And all...

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Categories: cast down, blessing, celebration, christian, encouraging,
Form: Rhyme
Brave New World
(based on Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World")

Human hatchery

Clink clink clink clink...
Test tubes prattling past
along the chrome plated production line.
Glistening under fake fluorescence
humming in harmony
with...

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Categories: cast down, confusion, depression, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Silence of Stone
Hard is the rock, yet it does roll, beneath the oceans
Swift currents its rough edges become smooth, rounded
But it makes no sound; it is the...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: cast down, imagery, imagination, inspirational, nature,
Form: Free verse
Epitaph For a Common Man
Will you leave this life
Without a murmur or a whimper
Be cast down to the depths below
In a hallowed tomb of timber

You did not exit stage...

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Categories: cast down, dedication, life
Form: Epitaph
Premium Member History's Greatest Miracle Play
History’s Greatest Miracle Play

Let me tell you a story - Prologue

Actors gather to play their parts
To set the stage – backdrops and props –
In history’s...

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Categories: cast down, jesus,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Our Limited Understanding
What did he mean
when he said
turn the other cheek?
Does it mean
violence isn't the answer
and peace is always the way?

Is it to deny the natural
carnal response?
To...

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Categories: cast down, bible, christian, peace, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Angel Without Wings
Cast down from eternal glory
The page of fate unfolds the story
Dark conception that Evil brings
He’s the Angel without wings...

Screaming souls to help him reign
Preys on...

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Categories: cast down, angel, evil,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member Time Unwinding
As time stood still in the presence of the King
Awaiting its order to commence
The King’s voice echoed throughout the universe
Silence ensued, loud and fierce!
The four...

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Categories: cast down, imagination, inspirational, lifetime, universe,
Form: Free verse
There Is
There is peace in the midst of pain
There is joy when it starts to rain
There is happiness in the midst of a fall
There is understanding...

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Categories: cast down, peacegod, peace, god, peace,
Form: Rhyme
The Legend of Tangle Heartsprite
The Legend of Tangle Heartsprite

This legend may be myth or truth
in poems penned of promis’d proof 
For Tangle Heartsprite was his name
with magic love his...

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Categories: cast down, fantasy, fun, love,
Form: Rhyme

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