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Best Rebuke Poems

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Premium Member A Poem of Ruth
The tears well up, and scarce could she not moan
When father, brother, husband, all have died.
She now has no possessions, neither home,
But travels to a...

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Categories: rebuke, bible, devotion, faith, journey,
Form: Iambic Pentameter



Premium Member The Conversation
Dark, the night morphs slowly toward dawn.
In its last vestige, the moment in which night becomes morning,
he speaks to me.
I refer to him as "he"...

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Categories: rebuke, death, time,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Bleed For Me
Bleed for me


Why?
	Why what she says?
Why do you cut, why do you bleed yourself?
	Why do birds fly, how the heck should I know?
Ah but you...

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Categories: rebuke, beautiful, faith, heart, humanity,
Form: Free verse
Torn and Tattered Wings
Torn and Tattered Wings

It’s not easy to have seen
All the darkness inside you
Places I have been
Sorrow and degrading
Thrusting their blades epithetize 
Hard into your heart

I...

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Categories: rebuke, inspirational, loveworld,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Triumphant Trust In the Lord
“Trust in the LORD*.”  Such declares God’s sovereignty
Along His leadership as the supreme Almighty Deity---
We must bow to Him with humility
Submitting ourselves to His...

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Categories: rebuke, christian, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member The Parents' Role
Blame
yourself for
the things your 
children say and do; 
they got them from your 
nasty looks, gestures and unkind words...
read them some stories from the Bible!
Mothers...

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Categories: rebuke, abuse, bible, children, leadership,
Form: Etheree
Premium Member I Believe - the Anaphora Style
~I Believe~
(Rhymed Anaphora)


I believe in God more than anything that's true
I believe in his divine love and sacrifice that too
I believe that true love can...

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Categories: rebuke, faith, hope, inspirational, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member A Thousand Dark Secrets
Carrying with me a
halfhearted smile for the
braver men than I.
The men holding tightly
to past perceptions,
live or die.
Suppose I whispered to 'em
what I've heard through
the metaphorical...

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Categories: rebuke, anger, angst, bereavement, political,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Talking Smack
*I've been called a 'shrew,' told I am self centered, petty, and a few other rather insulting and invective names, so here is my rebuke.


Who...

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Categories: rebuke, parody,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Thanksgiving Blessings
Abounding in gratitude 
my heart bursts out delightful praises
worshipfully testifying ---
 “God has blessed me this 2021.” 

January’s thanksgiving glow 
greeted me with peace and...

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Categories: rebuke, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Waiting
On a day where
    the rain
  attacks the windshield
only to be brushed away
    like an ill-timed rebuke,
yet caresses...

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Categories: rebuke, lovelife, longing, life,
Form: Free verse
How Ever,I Rise
In your mind you conclude that
'this one is a dried bone'.
And you look at me as if am alone, 
But i have got back bone...

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Categories: rebuke, satire, future, prejudice,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member More Than a Conqueror
The Hop Devil you've already been defeated
You've been thrown out of heaven
So now you're casting lots trying to defeat me
But what you don't understand is...

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Categories: rebuke, anxiety, blessing, christian, conflict,
Form: Free verse
Ghosts
How silent are the dead,
Whose quiet feet don't stray;
We see them face to face,
As they go their lonely way.

These ghostly apparitions,
Who've forgotten all their fears;
They...

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Categories: rebuke, imagination,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Savoir-Faire of the Great Bear
If you should hear him coming, fear his roar
His grizzled warnings, you should not ignore
A formidable champion is Ursus, a carnivore
His claws protects those he...

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© Lin Lane  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: rebuke, friend,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs