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Best Instituted Poems

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I Sing Africa
All's not about Darfur
I've seen it, eerie winds
Moonlight through our thatch

We kissed round, one *palmie gourd
Kigali was but a miss
Waist-beads - beats to love

Have you...

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Categories: instituted, black-african amergrandmother,
Form: Prose Poetry



This Cruise Is Over
the only tree for a thousand miles 
gave him welcome if temporary shade
a kaleidoscope of mockingbirds filling its branches
it was no longer possible to be...

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Categories: instituted, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Declaration of Interdependence
When in the Course of Earth’s climatic events, 
it becomes necessary for cultures to resolve political bands 
which have connected Her with human nature, 
and...

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Categories: instituted, freedom, health, independence day,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which Door Might a Confucian Take
Back Door Side Door Front Door : Which door might a Confucian take
 
..................for René ETIEMBLE (Jan. 26, 1909 – Jan. 7, 2002)*

In homage -...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: instituted, books, eulogy, french, poems,
Form: Elegy
Passover Tanka 20170411
Wine, bread, bitter herbs
Blood, body, sin, suffering
This is Passover
in old and new Testaments
Love means Sacrifice
(c)Anil Deo, 11 April 2017


Shalom shalom, Happy Passover to all Jews...

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Categories: instituted, allegory, celebration, christian, easter,
Form: Tanka



Premium Member Resistance On the Iberian Peninsula
Resistance On The Iberian Peninsula

“Liberté, égalité, fraternité (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity),”
Scream French revolutionists as they guillotine monarchists heads, 1
Then crown Napoleon Bonaparte Emperor of France, 2
Who...

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Categories: instituted, education, freedom, history, irony,
Form: Verse
The Cross and the Lance...Pt.1
The human experience fulfilling sensation,
our environment is our creation,
not ours originally,but ours to maintain,
natural system,needs are sustained...

Everybody has a bell that rings
cellular vibration,in song it...

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Categories: instituted, history, politicalworld, song, song,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Luminous Mysteries
Pope John Paul II instituted a new set of mysteries
 To the Rosary called the Luminous Mysteries.  
It is suggested by the Church 
Say...

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Categories: instituted, black african american, christian,
Form: Quatrain
Spring
The sun shines in a friendly glow while the birds sing mating songs, searching for 
that lost bond of intimate natural longing. Greenery illuminates the...

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Categories: instituted, allegory, life, love, music,
Form: Imagism
Premium Member If Ever I Had a Country : Lviii and Lix
IF ever I had a country : LVIII - LIX

			LVIII

IF ever I had a fantasy country
And if ever I were left to choose a country...

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Categories: instituted, anti bullying, corruption, drug,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Listening For Firestorms
Always respect this combination of fire and wind,
she tentatively said,
after having listened for healthy and pathological winds
regenerating and degenerating,
investing in and divesting of,
yeasty flames of...

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Categories: instituted, absence, blessing, happiness, health,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member By You Know, You Know the Thing
"All men and woman created by you know, you know the thing"

You know... the thing from which it actually states "all men are created equal."
You...

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Categories: instituted, america,
Form: Carpe Diem
Easter Origins
"Worship in spirit and truth"

With Easter approaching, many people Christian and non-Christian are exposed to this celebration and may have questions concerning the various teachings,...

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Categories: instituted, bible, christian, easter, god,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Sacraments In General
A Sacrament is an outward sign instituted by Christ to give grace

There are 7 Sacraments: Baptism, Confirmation, Holy Eucharist or Communion, Penance or Confession, Extreme...

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Categories: instituted, christian, god, jesus, people,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Your Immune System
Maybe you don't think about me,
but I will fight for you silently
with complexity, as long as we live.
Though you seem to underestimate me,
I am a...

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Categories: instituted, body, care, creation, earth,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs