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Best Common Good Poems


The Common Good
The Common Good

Rice pudding with cinnamon serves the common good
Razor blades on wrists do not
Utility of perfection is perfected knowing God and nature  
Playing with the devil and dark forces ends in dread
Of course ice cream is still delicious when served cold
Arsenic is not...

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Categories: common good, care, community, faith, food,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Aiming At the Common Good
In life,

Love ought to be, our motivation

Humanity, our concern

God, our inspiration

If 

We wish a better world to build,

Everything we think, say, or do

Should be aiming at the common

Good!








© Demetrios Trifiatis
      24 August 2021...

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Categories: common good, god, love, world,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member For the Common Good
For the Common Good
David J Walker

The warm summer nights breeze 
Becomes the messenger and
The message is the perfumed air
 
There are many reasons to linger 
Under the porch not meant to provide
Protection from an evening’s outside elements  

The fresh mown grass releases its 
own...

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Categories: common good, allegory,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Premium Member The Common Good
A funny thing happened to or with me this morning during the 11 O'clock hour. During the few moments that I was watering our lemon tree, a train went back. This was the Amtrak and not the commercial cargo locomotive.  For the most part,...

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Categories: common good, america, pain, self,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Common Good
Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord! Psalm 117:1 (responsorial)

Like it or not, we need regulations to protect the common good. But what about rules you believe are arbitrary? Have you ever thought about breaking any? That thought crossed my mind time...

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Categories: common good, christian, devotion, god, jesus,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Common Good
The time has come my loving siblings
 
To put the common good above all

And show that we care for each other

To avoid thus bringing Man's downfall!









© Demetrios Trifiatis
      25 March 2020...

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Categories: common good, care, humanity, love,
Form: Quatrain



Untitled
How can life be so beautiful
    and so horribly ugly all at once?
     This is the juxtaposition of all
                  juxtapositions.

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© Linda Reid  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: common good, allusion, angst, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
No Title
How can life be so beautiful
     and so horribly ugly all at once?
     This is the juxtaposition of all
             juxtapositions.

     ...

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© Linda Reid  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: common good, angst, art, conflict, introspection,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry