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Premium Member Judge Not
The congregation eyed him skeptically
     Long hair, a beard and sandals on his feet
Beyond his exterior they’d not see
  ...

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Categories: preached, faith, son, spiritual,
Form: Quatrain



Premium Member HONORING THE CHRIST CHILD

Christmas carols are being sung,
As bells are joyfully being rung,
Heralding the Christ Child’s birth,
As Christmas Day, we celebrate with mirth.

But lets think of Joseph and...

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Categories: preached, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Tolerance
The word
The idea
The wall that separates
Disguised in honorable robes
Preached to children
"Tolerance" 

Am I to be tolerated?
Just because I am different
Black, white, brown or yellow
Straight or...

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Categories: preached, discrimination, future,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Beausoleil
We loved the land
We tilled the earth, under sun we toiled
We pledged our souls, to nature’s whim
The King of France none to pleased

We took the...

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Categories: preached, history, philosophy,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Through Eyes of Redwoods
"to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature" William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1601

towering redwoods 
forest dwellers born before Christ’s time on Earth
spreading arms to lofty...

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Categories: preached, inspirational, naturetime,
Form: Free verse



An Offspring of Love
You are,                       ...

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Categories: preached, devotion, faith, inspirational, life,
Form: Shape
Percivals Promise!
The soul is but a vast ocean of vigilance

Streaming with incresent colours towards life

Infinite within its parhelion possibilities

Relentlessly searching, betwixt the everflowing tides

Whereupon all things...

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Categories: preached, faith, life, love, time,
Form: I do not know?
Premium Member Retirement Due To Health Issues
The dear old pastor had occupied the same pulpit for years and years;
He preached fire, damnation and The Hereafter scorching his congregants ears!
He had baptized...

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Categories: preached, humorous, religious,
Form: Rhyme
The Meaning of Bread and Tortillas
"Mi primo" means my cousin in Spanish.
He calls me his "primita"- little cousin.
This is the story of how mi primo
Taught me about the meaning of...

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Categories: preached, cousin, culture, friend, immigration,
Form: Free verse
Alliteration For the Planet
Wonderful wonders woven within wild. 
Titillates theatrical tender thoughts
Consistently creation, contrives conservation concerns. 
Ecology evolves equations, entitling entities essence.
Empowering equality, enlarges existence.
Life lovingly leases Longevity.
Biodiversity...

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Categories: preached, environment, nature,
Form: Alliteration
The City and the State of Play Today
THE CITY AND THE STATE OF PLAY TODAY

No one worries about morals today 
They follow the rules they create
So to them all is ok
Those on...

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Categories: preached, business, community, corruption, international,
Form: Free verse
In Memoriam (Che Guevara)
I
I woke up this morning with tears in my eyes,
your face was in the morning paper;
they shot you dead like a dog,
hunted you out all...

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Categories: preached, death, history, introspection, life,
Form: Ode
Premium Member Indigenous Ghost
No amount of political education
could quell his mingling organ they call ‘simple brain,’
while mutations from grammar association
to unravel civilization's complex pain.
His shield prepared against another...

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Categories: preached, angst, culture,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member The Unknown One
The Unknown one
(Face 2)


Time steals a beating heart
The heart struggles to steal time

We grasp at emotional tinsel
We cry when our tears tumble  
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Categories: preached, absence, death, horror, identity,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Little Guy Dwarves Again
Seven days and lonely at night
Was a Princess called Snow White
On her doorstep there was
Little guy dwarves
All different to view from sight

So on Monday night...

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Categories: preached, humor,
Form: Limerick

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