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The Mark of Cain
first man borne of earthly woman                   ...

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Categories: mark of cain, bible, brother, introspection, judgement,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Mark of Cain
In the land of Eden,
In the land of Nod.
I once was a man,
That had a plot.
The black eye derived from fratricide,
Reprised in time despite;
the denies...

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Categories: mark of cain, assonance, betrayal, bible, brother,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member With Jesus, No Mark of Cain
Out of my league, that's how you are
Still my foolish heart saw you a par
To your proposed love, I did not refrain
I will be happier,...

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Categories: mark of cain, feelings, inspiration, life, loneliness,
Form: Kyrielle
The Mark of Cain
Dare I chide you my child
For playing in the moonlight
With the children of those I know
Despise my kind and kin folks?

Dare  chide you my...

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Categories: mark of cain, black-african amer
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member When You Wear a Dirty Shirt
When you wear a dirty shirt,
You're a book getting judged by its cover.
People think you're really poor, or nutty,
Or that you have a menial job.
Or...

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Categories: mark of cain, humor,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Favorite Recurring Nightmares Part 1
Don't you think that this title is darkly divine?
But, of course, there will have to be weirdness that’s funny,
Though my nightmares are many and have...

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Categories: mark of cain, anxiety, crazy, fun, funeral,
Form: Quatrain
The Whiskey Bottle Wish
The Whiskey Bottle Wish

 	One late summer night outside a saloon in the mid-west, an intoxicated Dusty Rogers, stumbles out of the Bar nearly taking...

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Categories: mark of cain, bible, drink, judgement,
Form: Narrative
Ghost of Cain
Replace this heart of soiled sedition.
This junkyard filled with ugly treason.
Forgive, o Lord, embattled reason, 
at the turnpike,  chosen left ...off course.
His smoke went...

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Categories: mark of cain, betrayal,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Premium Member Hey Bwana - Exclamation Point
Banana tree here! Bwana quick sit with me
Come sit with me friend for a spell
These damn tsetse flies are all out for our blood
By now...

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Categories: mark of cain, humor, racism,
Form: Rhyme
My Lilith
Lilith came to me in a dream
she said Eden was beautiful
we fell through the abyss
the fury of our flight
kindled the air...

It thundered and lightninged
below us...

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Categories: mark of cain, dark, feelings, love,
Form: Free verse
Heavenly Marks
On his robe and his thigh he has this name written:
 King of kings and Lord of lords.
Revelation 19:16
You shall have no other gods before...

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Categories: mark of cain, encouraging, inspirational, religious,
Form: Free verse
Taboo
It's Allhallows Eve; and my alter ego makes me insane,
    Tonight; the Devil incites me to kill once again.
   ...

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Categories: mark of cain, evil,
Form: Monorhyme
Scream Abuse Into the Night
I listened with intent
and watched with practiced eye.
That came to me through scream on scream,
word on word and slap on slap.
My mind wandered to its...

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Categories: mark of cain, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Auschwitz
No more the wretched screams of pain are heard within this place
We walk here with the ghosts of they who ever haunt this space
This godforsaken...

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Categories: mark of cain, death, history, loss, political,
Form: Epitaph
The People We Don'T Want To Know
The People we don’t want to know. 

From pay check to pay check many working class people have two jobs,
 then it all dries up...

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Categories: mark of cain, social, children, woman, work,
Form: Blank verse

Book: Shattered Sighs