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Best Obey Poems

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Premium Member My Far Side
You say, I’m too far, 
towards the far side?
It’s a hazard of my left-handedness,
that I see the logic in abstraction.
Worlds lay within worlds
and colors bleed...

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Categories: obey, how i feel, imagination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member He Doesn'T Shhhh Me Anymore
He told me to be quiet each time I tried to speak
knowing I'd obey for he believed I was meek
Months went by and I acquiesced...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: obey, eulogy,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member New World Order
The Rulers wield their silver shields,
             wear golden coronets
while warders guard the prison...

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Categories: obey, drug, society,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Gothic Love Grind
I find you alone
in your favorite room of sorrow and suspense,
the woman I cherish more than victory or divine sense,
long untouched, you stare into a...

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Categories: obey, gothic, love, passion,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Know Yourself
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                ...

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Categories: obey, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Lost In a Maze
A cryptic note:  
“Meet me in the middle of Nowhere,
Tonight when the moon is full.”
What is my wife playing at? Is this her idea...

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Categories: obey, adventure, lost,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member To My Children
Drive mindfully, dear children, as you traverse hurdled highways of life,
Cognizant that adjacent to an oasis of joy, lies a desert brooding strife;
Assume charge of...

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Categories: obey, children, encouraging, family, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication Series
Note:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley,  Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation	Poet, dramatist,...

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Categories: obey, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Show Me the Way
So long have I harped of regret,
For price of vice is not paid yet,
With rueful heart, Lord, now I pray;
O God, won't you show me...

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Categories: obey, forgiveness, introspection, prayer,
Form: Kyrielle
Premium Member Dare We Beat Evil With Truth and a Heavy Sledge
Dare We Beat Evil With Truth And A Heavy Sledge

Fresh rain pounded out cleaning again our Mother earth
above squirrels chattering for all they are worth
what...

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Categories: obey, deep, devotion, god, heaven,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member We, Nasty Women
must refuse relegation, obey
only the roar of our own angels, then reshape 

breastplates to shield the motherland
from any warlord who dares 

to pimp our flag.
Battlefields...

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Categories: obey, allegory, history, political,
Form: Ekphrasis
Premium Member As Above So Bellow
Do you know, my dearest friend that:

The physical and the metaphysical world are divided by a membrane only, and that they are interconnected and interdependent?

That...

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Categories: obey, blessing, god, heaven, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Cosmos, the Flower and the Bee
Look as far and as wide as you can, my friend, 
Turn your eyes towards the sky and try to pierce infinity-
This vast unknown- 
Ponder...

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Categories: obey, flower, god, men, universe,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member The Word- Heroic Crown of Sonnets
THE LAW

Yet sacrifice would cover for Love's sake
before that time, the Law was sent to guide
sin offerings appeased man's guilty state
but could not change his...

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Categories: obey, bible, christian, life, light,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
Premium Member Acting Out
.            Acting Out

Standing, lying, falling, crawling, I keep trying, crying, lying, rhyming, love is...

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Categories: obey, addiction, adventure, body, dedication,
Form: Rhyme

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