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The Butterfly
Enroling  you a worm (cumbersome and)
hairy, you- scimitar of leaves
Knows the pain ,writhing pupae
Abandoned and convicted
Constricted hanging straightjacket
Squirming like a jackrabbit
Gagged nocturnally - ...

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Categories: convicted, angel, beauty, butterfly,
Form: Free verse



Always Yours
The handwriting became darker,
And I imagined your hands pressing upon the page,
Wavering whether to write your thoughts or not
Soon, sure, the wavering became conviction,
And in...

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Categories: convicted, heart, introspection, passion, poetry,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member To Trust
I walked beyond the ease of youth,
and refused the prosperity
given to an ignorant mind.
Over years you revealed the truth;
every heart morbidly aligned,
leaves nothing seen with...

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Categories: convicted, bible, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Easter
They were forgiven 
for what they did not know they did
Yet unlike those men 
I am aware He bled
My inner being convicted 
by the things...

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Categories: convicted, baptism, easter,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Prosopography In Blue
waiting
with diaper on 
for this woman to get up 
off the kitchen floor and
stop bleeding while a man 
hovers over her with grimace 
and clinched...

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© Ricky Muse  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: convicted, poetry,
Form: Narrative



God Knows
Look at the color of that face,
It should not be in this place,
We do not want that face to stay,
Stop! God loves that face anyway

Look...

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Categories: convicted, forgiveness, god,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Heartbroken
"Broken families beget culprits, and late remorse can never set things right"
~ By Poet.

Scenes reel back casting dark shadows,
Of the fated day I had to...

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Categories: convicted, addiction, angst, depression,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Two Ways To Deliver Justice
THE COMMANDER "IN" CHIEF" IS "IN" THE MILITARY"!!!!!! HE OR SHE GETS "TO BE",ALL AT THE SAME TIME: IN "ALL THE MILITARY FORCES!!! ARMY,NAVY,AIR FORCE,MARINES,NATIONAL...

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Categories: convicted, 12th grade, 8th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Weeping
Let me tell you a sad story, a true story . . .

     In another time, under the dictatorship of Adolf...

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Categories: convicted, racism,
Form: Narrative
The Black Boomerang
The word’s speaker and listener would hear 
Cackling, 
Not from one another, 
But from a burning Sixo; 
They would feel
As though
A noose was choking 
Their...

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Categories: convicted, black african american, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Running For My Life
A teen when Mom died

Five young brothers and sisters

Dunn supported them

Pro football player with heart

Started running for his life


Written for Brian Strand’s Ekphrasis contest. ...

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Categories: convicted, uplifting
Form: Tanka
Riding For Independence
We have been riding for ever so long;
Now our search for our freedom seems to be gone.
We only took; of that which we need;
And we...

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Categories: convicted, cowboy-western, hope, peoplelife,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
My Train of Thought Now At 36
we stimulate our minds for our intellect to grow
becoming more technical
remaining spiritually slow

so we face trials and tribulation
crisis and complications
praising God, while serving Satan
expecting love...

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Categories: convicted, caregiving, faith, philosophy, song-pain,
Form: Rhyme
Aces and Eights
At a poker table in a Deadwood saloon,
Wild Bill Hickok popped his last balloon.
He suffered the most ignominious of fates
while holding black pairs of aces...

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Categories: convicted, history,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Old Man Crabb - Both Audio and Text
Sixty some odd years ago, when I was just a kid, our home was on the very edge of town.
The man that lived next door...

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Categories: convicted, inspirational,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things