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Premium Member Held Aloft
We'd laid old George to rest the week before,
at ninety-one he now rejoined his wife,
no heirs to his estate, so one thing more
to do, and...

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© Viv Wigley  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: paid the price, heartbreak,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member Easter
They were forgiven 
for what they did not know they did
Yet unlike those men 
I am aware He bled
My inner being convicted 
by the things...

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Categories: paid the price, baptism, easter,
Form: Free verse
Gold Fever
Gold Fever 

History will not record the bloated weight
Of this pious and bigoted race 
Or count the fat and flaccid wealth
Of religions idolatry

Those pages have...

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Categories: paid the price, faithfaith, political, perspective, ,
Form: Free verse
Forbidden Love
You and I were meant to be...
You and I shared a dream...
we fought for our love...
day to day...
but too many people were in our way...
so...

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Categories: paid the price, loss, lost love, love,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Kingdom of Heaven
Kingdom of Heaven

For there is but one that holds the key
with only one gate of entrance
so that the thief shall not enter
and when his sheep...

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Categories: paid the price, christian, faith, gospel, inspirational
Form: Pastoral



Sunday Best
What if our Easter Sunday was Holy Spirit led?
What if in place of colored eggs, lost souls were sought instead?

Instead of hurried egg hunts, we’d...

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Categories: paid the price, faithson, easter, easter, jesus,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Ode To Jesus
  Yes, all to Him, I owe!
  He paid the price,
  the debt that I had greatly owed.

  No greater gift...

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Categories: paid the price, bible, christian, dedication, devotion,
Form: Ode
Then Spoke Our Lord
Then spoke our Lord upon the scene
in a world of sheep gone astray.
His talk is truth, somewhat pristine
for thoughtless people of the day.

A taxman listened...

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Categories: paid the price, 11th grade, spiritual, spoken
Form: Quatern
Premium Member The Man Named Jesus
Sometimes when the road gets short
and your body becomes weary
It seems difficult to keep your eyes open
There is someone who will carry you
Have you met...

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Categories: paid the price, journey, relationship,
Form: Free verse
I'M Only Human
I often wondered why it is that so many people don't believe
Life's a test, each day a quiz and yet themselves they deceive 
I could...

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Categories: paid the price, blessing, child, creation, god,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Greatest Gift
The Greatest Gift


The angels sang His praises clear
no greater words we'll ever hear
than the message of our Saviors birth
He, whose light had graced the earth
to...

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Categories: paid the price, faith, inspirational, upliftingmay,
Form: I do not know?
Drip
Author Dana Redricks 
June 11, 2019 

I'm dripping sweat on my shirt 
I think it might even hurt 
My heart is swollen like a river...

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Categories: paid the price, blessing, christian, confidence, faith,
Form: Ballad
Bypath of Thoughts
beneath a lambent glow
where shadows fall
in the echoes of silence
we dance on walls
in the abyss
of my loneliness

you hook my thoughts
on common grounds
standing on every corner
on...

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Categories: paid the price, abuse, death, life, memory,
Form: Free verse
The New World Order
It is not new. The thirteen families, and Freemasons have been plotting for hundreds of years. Here are the thirteen families that make up the...

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Categories: paid the price, bible, dark, future, jesus,
Form: Narrative
When God Sends a Miracle
When God sends us a miracle
Do you bow your head and pray
For He reached down and touched that need
And provided you a way

He hears and...

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Categories: paid the price, faithlife, god, heart, god,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things