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Best Census Poems

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Premium Member Emergent
How can one man find
More faith in a crevasse of Siula Grande,
Than most will ever know,
Sitting beneath a pulpit on Sunday?

Dulling the truth to grow...

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Categories: census, bible, christian, dark, death,
Form: Didactic



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: census, angel, anger, betrayal, child
Form: Free verse
Autumnal Days In America

It’s autumn time in America,
the colors are changing ...
(it’s alt right to gasp in whited disbelief)
as poplar majority, quaking Aspen leaves
slowly fall off 
the John...

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Categories: census, allusion, autumn, perspective, truth,
Form: Dramatic Verse
No Tomorrow's
You know, its been in most fimiliard circles that the saying is...."tomorrow is
not promise to you". Yet 7 day's a week the census of time...

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Categories: census, faithgod, god,
Form: Lay
Premium Member The Sin Question
"Let him who is without sin cast the first stone", said The Master.            ...

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Categories: census, sin,
Form: Verse



Cap'N Thunderbolt
Cap’n Thunderbolt

The moon stood out 
Any traps about  
Cap’n Thunderbolt did ask
He was on the road again 
Brown snake for break-in-fast

The Drover said they...

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Categories: census, adventureold, horse, old,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Big Agenda
We have all gotten used to wearing our masks just like we do our bras and panties, now we need get used to wearing a...

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Categories: census, anxiety, corruption, discrimination, freedom,
Form: Narrative
I Don'T Know What You Came To Do
I don't know what you came to do 
But I came to praise the Lord
To proclaim His anointing spirit
And with Him to get on board
Jesus...

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Categories: census, faith, gospel, spiritual, wisdom,
Form: Carpe Diem
Premium Member Mom PS
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Learning to change stinky diapers
                 While holding my breath
...

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Categories: census, children, life, mother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Door Unlocked, Please Close Behind You
The church door was unlocked
So I went inside
Many pews had spider web barriers in place
Yet the linen was clean and ironed
Dates of mass clearly on...

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Categories: census, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Trump and Approach Are Superficial
Trump and Approach Are Superficial

Started at beginning and point that is initial,
His approach and appearance are superficial;
Trouble up stirred,
With each word;
Statements Trump made had been...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: census, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member She Came This Way
On a headstone in the ground, 
a life's summation can be found:
born and died and little more
marks the end with an underscore.

Before I die I'd...

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© Jan Terry  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: census, birth, death, family, life,
Form: Narrative
Innkeeper
So why did I do it?
It still isn't clear.
The rooms were all taken;
The busiest this year.
And all of them dusty,
And all of them tired.
The trek...

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© Doug Blair  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: census, baby, bible, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Wisdom's Marching Council
I know you invited the Brothers to side-line along,
but only if we are here to listen;
Don't speak.

Yet I may have credential for qualifying voice.
For I,...

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Categories: census, deep, health, poverty, race,
Form: Political Verse
Hard Time With Statistics
Hard Time With Statistics

People had hard time believing latest statistics
Made by morons who must be marvelous mystics
All of the relationships with everything is inverted
What is...

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© James Horn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: census, humorous,
Form: Couplet

Book: Reflection on the Important Things