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Premium Member Heroic Crown of Sonnets 2
8.Reading

I see them all rise to an endless sky.
Tumbling burnt pages from raging fire,
To leave ash of closer, to pacify.
A single deep breath near flaming...

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Categories: jailers, poetry,
Form: Crown of Sonnets



Premium Member Heave Ho and Yo Ho Ho
There's a Senior's home called the Shady Lane
    and life's curse is at an end.
Where a hundred souls are kept in line
...

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Categories: jailers, adventure, funny, humor,
Form: Rhyme
St Valentine
I was inspired to write this poem because of the true nature of this brave Holy man, St Valentine. It tells the story of courage,...

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Categories: jailers, appreciation, celebration, courage, devotion,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member They Don'T Know
I walk in a busy street, happy faces everywhere
Coats buttoned tight against the cold,
Stomachs full, warm shoes on their feet.
They don't know.

My grandparents limped through...

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Categories: jailers, discrimination, freedom, history, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Nelson Mandela: Many Stumbles, No Mumbles
Each time I raise my gaze to the night sky,
A million stars stare back, shedding happy tears of light.
And I cannot but stare back in...

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Categories: jailers, eulogy, forgiveness, leadership,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Jails Parody
Send the convicts to the jails -
Local jails! -
What a world of confinement as their court case fails
Hear the jingle, jingle, jingle
Of the handcuffs as...

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Categories: jailers, parody, world,
Form: Rhyme
Drenched In Silence
Unbearable thoughts barreling through my head
Decaying in this silent chamber...
Where I desperately cry for help

Words come out useless...I have no capability to yelp
They haven't collapsed...

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Categories: jailers, adventure, angst, childhood, confusion,
Form: Rhyme
The Cook Is Typhoid Mary
The Cook is Typhoid Mary 

By Elton Camp

Some folks who most think are real
Are myths, as scrutiny will reveal.
Too bad that we have been so...

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© Elton Camp  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: jailers, healthme, work, me, time,
Form: Rhyme
Damning Sorrow, For Love
when I heard 
Miss Piggy laugh,
on those days ?
I would be OK 
between the oceans
of pain, we had paddled
to meet 


plastic bags of magic
hanging from...

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Categories: jailers, death, dedication
Form: Blank verse
Forever Forgive Me
Forever forgive me
For my one and only iniquity
Please forgive me
With forbearance eternally

Lots of anger and lust
Got a hold of me…
So, I must...oh, I must…
Set my...

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Categories: jailers, courage, emotions, encouraging, endurance,
Form: Rhyme
The Christ
Red hue adorns the western sky
As the blazing sun descends
Tears fall freely from my eyes
Prayers stifled, as daylight ends

Frightened and alone, in this cell
Sleep would...

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Categories: jailers, christian, devotion, , western,
Form: Rhyme
Kamikaze
A true advantage
Is to be angry with your head
And not your heart.
This is how good men win wars,
And smart women win arguments.
And this is the...

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Categories: jailers, adventure, school, sorry, me,
Form: Free verse
She Is On Her Way
She'll be rather willing to be burnt
on the stakes forgotten
than sleep and wake in the jailers chains
watching her purpose gather up dust.
Rake her charred remains
heap...

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Categories: jailers, encouraging, endurance, little sister,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Song of Namaan
ONE
TWO
THREE
FOUR
FIVE
SIX
SEVEN
PRAISE ELISHA'S GOD IN HEAVEN!


"Go dip in the Jordon", he said;
The prophet who must surely be mislead,
But after travelling to Israel,
I will test this cure...

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Categories: jailers, faith, god,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Awareness
Against attentiveness,all arrived at alarming an agreement, 
But best before,big brothers begun bathing behind bordered basement,
Could cane caution correctly,creating common checks?
Don't disturb determiners destroying developed...

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Categories: jailers, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse

Book: Reflection on the Important Things