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Premium Member A Long Loud Sigh
genius?
sometimes you are in its minimal spotted light...sometimes!
other times you just know you've been touched and you freeze,
moved but frozen...like a stranger it moves in,...

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Categories: holy, introspection, drug,
Form: Free verse



Hidden Beauty
Hidden beauty resides not in the grace like charms
Of coy smiles 
Painted across a gentle Madonnas face.
Nor is she vested within the chastened vows
Of saintly...

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Categories: holy, beauty,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member John Lennon
On the day 
that John Lennon died, 
people were just going 
about their business 
as they did every day. 

Mark David Chapman 
was reading 
Catcher In The Rye 
void of his holy self.
 He...

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Categories: holy, music,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member My Winter's Wishes
In the May-time of my life
time bloomed each day a prickly boll –
but I, like the softest cotton within such a sharp seed  
swaddled...

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Categories: holy, age, god, hope, introspection,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Clouds
"HOLDING HIS HAND"

*The Voice*
God, can I hold your hand and follow you?

"God's voice"
My child, it is I who will walk with you! You walked down...

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Categories: holy, angel, beautiful, beauty, blessing,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member - Peace, Love, and Gods Greatest Gift -
The mellifluous musical tones of the village bells

Echoing chimes over the cold snowcapped mountains

Both finding their way to people in the valley below

Christmas songs —...

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Categories: holy, celebration, christmas, december, inspiration,
Form: Terza Rima
Premium Member The Sham of My Humanity
Evergreen flavored mantras
did nothing to purge bitter bile from my lips
nor slake the smoldering thirst for a Rosary remedy.
Tick-tock petals unfurled one by one
as your...

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Categories: holy, anger, grief, heartbreak, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Poetic Garden
In my silent sanctuary,
my poetic garden blooms like sun kissed seeds,
carefully placed under a quilt of soil,
sprinkled with holy water.

In the vividness of morning mist,
spring...

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© Silent One  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: holy, assonance, philosophy, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Texian Macabre Arena
The First Texian Macabre Arena Ballad (The extended free-fallen edition)
 
In another life, is where I first saw your face!
One summer afternoon, lying wounded next...

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Categories: holy, pride, sin, sorrow, symbolism,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member Poe's Untimely Demise
*Note 
I had to bring this one back, though I've been posting mostly new writes here that PS hasn't seen before. This poem has been...

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© Tom Woody  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: holy, horror,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They'Re Going Forward
O God of the universes of Creation as a whole
I raise my hands; and open my heart and soul.'
Prostrate I call upon your power, to...

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Categories: holy, appreciation, assonance, christian, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Come Into My House Lord
For Brother Jacob, our fellow poet,
who lives his life
real and true to the call of God:

COME INTO MY HOUSE LORD

Come into my house Lord.
Anoint my...

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Categories: holy, christian, family,
Form: Verse
Premium Member Sinuous Melody
Your face
                       ...

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© John Watt  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: holy, love, music,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Musings On Faith
What if love is the religion,
and heaven a voice 
with no ego; 
synchronized in 
harmonious hope,
speaking dialects
of kindness?
What if hell is a myth, 
and evil...

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Categories: holy, gospel, heaven, imagination, muse,
Form: Free verse
The Names of Jesus
_____________
(_____GOD_____)
(_____LORD_____)
(_____ JESUS _____)
(_______RABBI______)
(_______TRUTH_______)
(________SAVIOR________)
(________ MESSIAH________)
________(_______ HOLY SPIRIT_______)_______
___(_______________ KING OF KINGS_______________)___
(________________ EVERLASTING FATHER________________ )
(__________________ THE PRINCE OF PEACE___________________)
(__________________GOOD SHEPHERD__________________)
(_______________ LION OF JUDAH_______________)
(________ LORD OF ALL________)
(______MIGHTY ONE______)
(_______HOLY ONE_______)
(______...

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Categories: holy, faith, history, inspirational
Form: Concrete

Book: Shattered Sighs