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Best Ransoms Poems

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Premium Member Easter Prayer
Lord of love, on this day with blood did buy
this chance for all to rise from ransoms paid.
With forgiving grace that must not ever die,
whose...

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Categories: ransoms, easter, inspirational, prayer, religious,
Form: Sonnet



Premium Member A Soldiers Prayer
Wearily I walk this rutted road
Knowing this life led yet is mine
Due is all ransoms for my soul
To every witness I leave behind
Lift my heart...

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Categories: ransoms, inspiration, journey, prayer, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Consider Then
News flash
Paris attacks;
Violence strikes

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Innocent deaths
Terror unveils;
Death delivers

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Madness conspires
Human debris;
Bigotry unleashed

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Evil men scheme
Distorted agendas;
Self-destruct roams

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Good people die
Bloodbath escalates;
Terror unleashed

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Signs of our times
Deceptive turbulence;
Mortal casualties

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Moods swayed
Fear catapults;
Distorted...

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Categories: ransoms, change,
Form: Haiku
Premium Member A Write A-101
I knew a wayward man; 
His eyes shadowed with defeat.
His sunken lips and hollow cheeks, 
mapping his journey.

He cannot reach, nor walk a step, 
his...

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Categories: ransoms, introspection, life,
Form: Free verse
Sounds of the Ghetto
I can hear the wicked shots rangin',
Hood stars on the avenues hangin',
You hear the sounds of the ghetto
and loose change in B.U.Ms[brothers under madness]
metal cups...

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Categories: ransoms, hip hop, poetry, spoken
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Heart Heart Heart
Hoard healthy highs
End etch enough
Add apt apply
Roam rivers rough
Trendy true tries


Hope hurls healing
Etch earns ending
Art aims asking
Reap real risking
Trust truth tasking


Help hurting hires
Embrace empty
Apt art...

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Categories: ransoms, allusion,
Form: Alliteration
Twas the Night Before a Miracle
Twas the night before a miracle, in a far away land 
Traveled Mary and Joseph across the deserts white sand
The journey produced a mother-to-be all...

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Categories: ransoms, bible, birth, blessing, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Thirst of Peace
Remove disturbing lines from the real life, 
Drawn by anti peace human beings,
Who like wars and brutality, 
Because these lines are disturbing,
Peaceful human beings,
Who likes...

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Categories: ransoms, peacepeace, peace,
Form: Light Verse
Sinister
It takes your money and robs you of time,
Chimes for attention, and rings with crime.

Your give it the power to mold and control
Unending hours, absorbed...

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© Tom Valles  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: ransoms, bullying, confusion, corruption, culture,
Form: Didactic
As I Write
As I write
I think deeply as I write, even though some of the my characters may be shallow
I write with love, even though the personnages...

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Categories: ransoms, poetry, uplifting, write,
Form: Prose Poetry
Premium Member Free
Freely You taught her, healed, saved from the tomb,
                ...

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Categories: ransoms, forgiveness, freedom, inspiration, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member When I Was Fortysomething 2000s
I saw the great con that was Y2K
I saw all the scaremongering go away

I saw in my arms a child I love so
I saw that...

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Categories: ransoms, history, life,
Form: Couplet
Absurdity
I see him working like a horse or bull or donkey or buffalo; never resting peacefully even to swallow a mouthful of the meal and...

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Categories: ransoms, vanity,
Form: Haibun

Book: Shattered Sighs