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Best Chastening Poems

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Premium Member Dreams Dancing a Dance Into Retreating Time
Dreams Dancing A Dance Into Retreating Time

I hasten to see worrying worries flown
In abyss of chastening chastened fires,
For decades she held tight, loving love, her...

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Categories: chastening, art, dance, dream, emotions,
Form: Sonnet



A Journey
As we travel along with a heart full of song,
We've a dream that hangs on a rope;
Like a lantern of light, shining at night,
She shines...

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Categories: chastening, life, heart, heart,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Learning Delights
Illumination of wondrous delight
Enlightening moments midst wisdom flight…
They commenced by my parents’ teaching light.

Vivid kindergarten nursery rhymes 
Became functional with my Mother’s chimes
As Dad reinforced...

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Categories: chastening, blessing, childhood, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
The Personification of Success
The Personification of Success
Success when seen with my eyes looks like quilts, diaries, prayers chastening rods and lots of hugs, off to school and then...

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Categories: chastening, best friend, blessing, career,
Form: Lyric
Oh No
Oh God Most High, oh no…
I’ve done it again…
Oh Lord, why did I sin that same sin over and over again?
You know what I’m talking...

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Categories: chastening, dedication, deep, depression, hope,
Form: Rhyme



Haunt Me No More
Verse 4: Another day of fighting back tears of fears
Lingering around a chastening situation that appears
You can't just leave me with this junk of a...

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Categories: chastening, deep,
Form: Lyric
The Whirlwind
Hewn in verse and ancient lore, 
It descends through an open door 
To place its fingers on mortal souls,
On meager pleas on lifeless shoals. 
Far...

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Categories: chastening, metaphor, nature, weather,
Form: Narrative
My Poems New Jerusalem Las Vegas
My Poems

Are but only and unto me 

An inner source of both shuttling
and chastening my day dreams

My very own fantastical imagination 
galaxy and far off...

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Categories: chastening, slam,
Form: Free verse
Again, Alone
It’s hard again
And the loneliness
Abrades the skin and soul
I am yours
With assurance I am whole
But not today
The saints seem
All so far away
And claiming victory
Even in...

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© Doug Blair  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chastening, faith,
Form: Pastoral
Discouraged
When trials seems to want to show up
And life’s headaches makes you want to throw your hands up
Jesus says don’t be discouraged you are not...

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Categories: chastening, inspirationallife, life,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: L 50 - Tongue-Teasing Epigrams
UNQUOTABLE QUOTES: L (50) - Tongue-Teasers

The « early bird catches the worm » only because the worm has not woken up yet.

« I don’t love...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: chastening, art, humor, irony, women,
Form: Epigram
Trophy Worthy of His Grace
Trials to blessings? Is it so
that the evil I encounter
God redeems to good from woe?
Afflictions, vexing confounders,
convulsing me upon the surge,
the Master Potter's implements
to conform...

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Categories: chastening, character, christian, god, spiritual,
Form: Lyric
Song of Autumn
A cooling autumn breeze
laden with the perfume of fallen leaves
and forest earth;
an earth of crumbly black
that guards dame nature's hidden scheme.

Tiny squirrels scamper
thither and fro
while...

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Categories: chastening, nature, philosophy, autumn,
Form: Free verse
The Principles On Southeast Center
I

how could i know him his eyes say
but my eyes reply which of us may speak to that
be busy in the house that needs fixing
despite...

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Categories: chastening, funeral, introspection, urban,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Lord God, You Are My Life Establisher
February 24 Relationship to God Bible Meditations 
Based on Deuteronomy 29-31

Key Verse– Deuteronomy 29:13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto...

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Categories: chastening, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs