Best Flogged Poems
Give Me Liberty Or Death...pink and sparkles spout
above liberty statue
cloud tauts happiness
fireworks all around applaud
hands clap on soil and sea
the swirl of nations,
a landing party of dreams...
b......
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Categories:
flogged, america, freedom, independence day,
Form:
Verse
Messiah...Betrayed for thirty pieces
Of silver
Mocked, spat upon
Flogged and crucified,
How Messiah suffered and died.
W.A CHOLT. Copyright Fergal O Reilly 2019.
Matthew......
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Categories:
flogged, bible, jesus, truth,
Form:
Tanka
A Song of a Tiger Living Free...Ample vicissitudes we both had faced
after the blood-curdling shipwreck while on voyage
trapped in a warren, dreams sailed in a haze
my young master bravely tamed me for his advantage
I ......
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Categories:
flogged, adventure, animal, uplifting,
Form:
Rhyme
I Am Africa...I held the stumbling humanoid,
Standing on two feet, scared as an alien
I am his cradle and his playground
Even before he was named *****Sapien.
Watched him crawl on hands and feet,
Watched hi......
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Categories:
flogged, africa,
Form:
Quatrain
Aub... Aub
Aubrey Gordon Joseph Mc'Govern
by Don Johnson...
he was born in 1895 to a land so different then,
one of three boys born at Brenda station,
near to Hebel up the river near the water ......
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Categories:
flogged, adventure, old, old,
Form:
Ballade
Squatter Jack...Squatter Jack
have you lived awhile in west Queensland,
out in the red soil dust,
where the crows will pick your eyes out and,
bore water is a must,
have you seen a thin and starving cow,
not......
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Categories:
flogged, adventure
Form:
Rhyme
A Good Man...There's a Good Man just up that hilltop there.
A Good Man,
He loves all children, both the troublemaker and the perfect ones.
He loves the poor and gives them alms and shelter.
He loves the hungr......
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Categories:
flogged, bible, blessing, death, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
The Jewel Of Jesus...
A polytheist would argue
just one God
That there are endless guards
and many rods
given these wards
With many temperaments and aims
devotion for a supreme being
Compassionate gods spread
ch......
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Categories:
flogged, jesus, religion,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
Our Mate Charlie the Drover...Our Mate Charlie Brummell
Yes mate we went a droving back in nineteen fifty eight,
The drovers cook was pretty rough, he couldn`t wash a plate.
Hector he was fifty two, when he burnt our damper ......
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Categories:
flogged, adventureold, home, day, home,
Form:
Rhyme
Perfuming the Pig...In a fun house called the great reset
grace and goodness is often flogged-
While confetti and saccharine accolades
are sprinkled over perfumed hogs-
A slanted house filled with greenies.
Cry......
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Categories:
flogged, abuse,
Form:
Free verse
Voiceless..."While many are silenced by authority, some are voiceless as they have no courage to protest. But some prefer voicelessness for convenience sake which is a graver offence" ~ By Poet
I......
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Categories:
flogged, angst, destiny, silence,
Form:
Free verse
Eternal Paradise...
Many times during my life my heart has been shattered,
by friends I thought loved me who betrayed that love;
with souls black and decayed and hearts empty,
why did I not see this da......
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Categories:
flogged, life,
Form:
Verse
There Is No Greater Love Than This...THERE IS NO GREATER LOVE THAN THIS
"For God did not send His Son
into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world through Him might be saved...-John 3:17 "
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Categories:
flogged, character, christian, cry, death,
Form:
Narrative
This Body...This Body
Those on the bottom can see but can’t act,
Those on the top can act, but can’t see,
O Lord, please free me from this body of Death, America.
Dear Lord, How am I to stay composed, as the......
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Categories:
flogged, black-african amerme, loss, sound,
Form:
Refused To Die...I held the stumbling humanoid,
learning to stand on two feet- scared as an alien.
I was his cradle and his playground—
even before he was called *****Sapien.
Watched him crawl on hands and feet......
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Categories:
flogged, racism, slavery,
Form:
Ballad