Best Outweigh Poems

For Brother Jacob, our fellow poet,
who lives his life
real and true to the call of God:

COME INTO MY HOUSE LORD

Come into my house Lord.
Anoint my house with peace.
Adorn it with jewels of love.
May laughter ring from its walls.
     Bring children that...

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How much more are we willing to lose?
Maybe it will just stop with the right to choose.

Have you thought of that child who got raped in the park?
Imagine her pain each night after dark.

Do you know a pregnant mother with young kids at home?
What if...

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Time is ticking for whooping cranes,
the buffalo and prairie dogs.
For their losses outweigh their gains;
displaced by cattle, sheep, and hogs.

The elephant and the blue whale
may share the fate of the dodo.
For their lives are now endangered;
like the dragons of Komodo.

Alligators and crocodiles;
tread the fringes of...

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I’m one drink closer to yesterday
              A bottle away from being with you
I’ll be able to say what I need to say
          ...

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Color is an integral part of my life, essential in
physical descriptions, a blessing to language. 
Colors are perfect subjects for character sketches.

For one perusing the color wheel, it's easy to 
choose green, a color of such versatility and 
profound meaning.

Symbol of nature and youth, signifying...

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It was a sight that I could not forsee
Ambushed by my own men at morning hour
Hands tight with cord and naked from the waist
A mean air on the Bounty blew unkind
It was the troubled wind of mutiny
My men, whose morals all have been erased
Once officers,...

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There is no way that anyone can know
how each new year will be:
how our jobs or our relationships might go.
What great new things might we live to see?
Might we have to endure some tragedy?

I can only hope the good will far outweigh the bad
and that...

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Let's start this issue with hard facts 
believe it or not the seed is now planted 
from our Lord's spoken words lets address this world openly honest

It only fills us with the wind and the emptiness of pride

Now lets count the cost of innocent lives...

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Surprised by sharp reflection’s sudden glance
His dreaming depths awaken to the real
Stark visage draws him in its raptured trance
Square figure’s piercing slate blue eyes reveal

Young vain lad deep within begs him to flinch
Pretensions of youth scurry from hard light
Yet fear will not cow him to...

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“Holmes, what is the secret of your glory, 
What keeps us thrilled and rapt right to the end?”

“The hook of a swell detective story -
Quite elementary, my modern friend."


“Your methods by deduction, I must tell,
Earned you renown for the most brilliant mind.”

“Crime is common, logic...

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Though it seems like petals fell by the wind
But actually the flower pushed them out
One by one they would fall from the flower
But somehow the wind seemed to know no doubt

Soon as the petals came loose the wind blew
Carried them far in the air, so...

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It was not so
It was not so
Before the invasion of the vultures
In those days
When being black makes us thick
When our communion whispers across oceans
When our ties thrust distrust
When our dreams were dreams
When our groans frighten their gods
When our cowries outweigh their currencies
But now,
The invasion of...

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Being lost seems to be my only option these days
Confusion appears to outweigh common sense in my life
My ability to reveal truth from lies has wreck havoc on my brain
I now strive to train my thoughts to linger in limbo
Never truly desiring to leave
This is...

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There is hearsay of a brighter day
And if it does come my way
I hope it will stay
While the time whittles away
There is no game to play
Struggling with life's daily melee
All I can do is pray
I wont be lead astray
By the things that outweigh
Like the debt...

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Old age starts to feel like a waiting game
when the shadow of Death starts encroaching.
And your passion for life dims down its flame,
watching life's end stealthily approaching.

You start looking back rather than ahead:
memories outweigh thoughts of tomorrow.
For past years, like an unraveling thread,
expose feelings of...

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