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Best Obedient Poems

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Premium Member An Obedient Child
I salute you oh mighty time:

My best friend,

My worst foe 

For

To live without you is simply

Impossible!



Throughout my existence

I have, unsuccessfully, struggled to accept

Whatever you brought...

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Categories: obedient, endurance, life, time,
Form: Personification



An Eternity I
Stood upright, between two roads,
On a thin metal rail,
A solitary, brown coloured bottle 
Of beer,          ...

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Categories: obedient, betrayal,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Her Son Nathaniel
She is searching for the son taken  from her arms 
 simply because she was believed to be a child herself.
She was unable to...

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Categories: obedient, baby, cute, sad,
Form: Narrative
Confessions of a Terrorist...
Behind the dark walls of the prison,
Hiding my face from all in my vision,
Abandoned by my bosses,the terror leads,
I wait to be hanged for my...

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Categories: obedient, death, forgiveness, lifeme, allah,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Friday Thirteen --Paris Attacks
Yes, they too believed in love,
Yet became victims of hate,
Men hungry for destruction,
And with vicious mindset,
	Fired deadly bullets around,
	Lifeless bodies fell on ground.

Pain touched every...

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Categories: obedient, death, evil, grief, paris,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member P E T S People Enslaved To Socialism
Have you ever had a pet?
Chances are pretty good I bet
You give them food, water, shelter and medical care
In return they give you loyalty and...

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© Eric Nolan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obedient, culture, freedom, life, nonsense,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Humankind In Jeopardy


                       Humankind
 ...

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Categories: obedient, community, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
Maundy Thursday
MAUNDY THURSDAY

The Upper Room was hushed that night,
 	As frightened friends supped their last as one.
Shoving back the morrow
	When their leader would be gone.

This is...

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Categories: obedient, death, easter, passion, ,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Falling Off a Horse
In the past during many a generation,
a horse has been used for transportation.
Usually obedient animals not needing a goad,
they are quite strong, and can pull...

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Categories: obedient, animals,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Ballad of Goodie-Two-Shoes
My mother went to heaven on the day that I was born
My father raised me up before my mother he would join
He said, “Son, to...

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© Joe Flach  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obedient, life,
Form: Ballad
Premium Member The Parents' Role
Blame
yourself for
the things your 
children say and do; 
they got them from your 
nasty looks, gestures and unkind words...
read them some stories from the Bible!
Mothers...

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Categories: obedient, abuse, bible, children, leadership,
Form: Etheree
The Secret Lives of Chimney Pots Ii
Gazing down along the zealously
Monitored borders of well clipped
Evergreen Privet hedges.
Standing watchful guard over 
Divisions
Re-enforced by concrete posts and
Darkly stained, wooden, wavy-lap 
Fences;
Age-old neighbourly disputes,...

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Categories: obedient, philosophy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Reunion
They came from as far a way as New York and Dallas Texas. The class of 1981 wasn't a large class, it was the very...

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Categories: obedient, allusion, death,
Form: Prose
Falling Bridges
The greatest miracle in days of yore  
unsurpassed, two millennia past or more 
a carpenter by trade, Joseph by name
was betrothed to Mary, a...

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Categories: obedient, angel, child, confusion, education,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Premium Member Always a Dream
A little fairy princess one day sits resting on a most beautiful sunflower,
And magically she begins stretching her wings for anticipatory flight
While capturing a vision...

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Categories: obedient, allegory, beauty, celebration, emotions,
Form: Narrative

Book: Reflection on the Important Things