Best Lay Aside Poems

There's a storm that we can't weather
There's a war that we can't win
But as long as we're together
We're together thick and thin
I know that you said things
I didn't like or understand
Then my reply would surely sting
Hot and dry like desert sand
So, I'll lay aside my...

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                             I dreamed I went to heaven,

          ...

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I was born in sin and in sin did my mother conceive me;
I wallowed in my iniquities and allowed satan to deceive me.
I hurried out to do things which were not just and right;
Occasionally they were done during the day, but mostly at night.

It wasn't...

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Before you undress
My outer garments
Undress my soul
Gently lay aside the coverings
That hide my private dreams
Lay bare my intimate thoughts
With the most gentlest of care
Undress my inner woman
Lay aside that final wispy layer
Shielding my innermost, deepest need
Lay naked my trembling heart

Only then can your fingers
Undo every...

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I look unto Christ, faith’s Author so sure
Redeemer of my soul by His great grace
Granting me everlasting life’s treasure
As His heir blessed by His divine embrace.

While running along spiritual track
I look unto Christ, faith’s Author so sure
Knowing that in Him, I will never lack
Since sufficient...

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Shimmering brightly
In the darkest of skies
Reaching down to guide me

Through nightly brawls
With melancholy visions
That flood my heart with

Secret hues of misery
Discovered within the mind
Who knows what it means

To break with earth shattering
Mistakes, despair and fear

Facing lost grace and vanished
Inspiration, insight, imagination
Flooding the peace within

By leaving...

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“6 When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he...

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From Judges 11.
Pronunciation: Seh-LAY-nah

His brothers cast the young man out, the child of an harlot;
He fled away to distant Tob before they found an outlet
For anger, more than what they'd done, to fully disinherit
And drive him from his father's house, though not for foul demerit
Within...

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They watched as he was taken away in the night,
They ran away, though some would follow his plight.

Taken to a trial that was ever so crude,
Taken to a prison to be beaten and treated so rude.

Sentenced to die in the most hideous way,
Sentenced to the...

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Copper blooms, titanium too below the iron of the sky
Rich fields of ore, quarried, lay everywhere without a quarrel
In conjunction with all things shiny on the land and rust of day

Mountains pinnacles are miles high
With gold draped cliffs of drifting yellow beads of brass

Green vegetation...

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Before I tramp the course of my cause,
A family indeed we were, I and Kole
But I short of years from the other.
Only by words we keep memory of
A deceased mother like morning dew
Sought for by the gloaming. We knew
Only a father whose right hand does
The...

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“ChatGPT-4, can you give me your literary opinion on the following sonnet? By the way, it is preambled by an explanatory prolegomenon which discusses the sonnet’s theme and my inspiration for composing it:”

Mental “Masturbation”

(The title of this sonnet is a term coined and popularized by...

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Introduction

From the city on the river
Where the Sage of Monticello
And the Great Emancipator
Birthed the country, saved the nation,
Sounds a call for civil discord
In the service of ambition
From a man whose God is power,
And his name is Demagogia.

Gathering Storm

To the banner flock his minions:
Come the vengeful,...

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(A Salute to Emily Dickinson)

I taste a liquor never brewed
In structured vats of men
Not all the tankards ever filled
Could reign this nectar in

Inebriate of Christ am I
His words I’m sipping from
Of life, of love, of power
Drunken worlds to overcome

When clergy slips and cannot rise
When churches...

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Amidst AGGRAVATION of sin-game schemes, I appeal to the Almighty…
Beseeching His pardon for my transgression-caused BOGGLE
Cleaving to His compassion with mercy’s CATCH PHRASE
Declaring earnestly “I’m SORRY; please forgive me”  
Enabled with repentance, not religious TABOO, to confess humbly. 

Free to pray thru Jesus Christ,...

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