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Best Runneth Poems

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Premium Member A Cup Runneth Over
A Cup Runneth Over

My cup in dry abyss boils over
Condensing dewdrops in vapors of blessing
Into foaming condensed extracts
Like effervescence of divine dust
That bubbles up to...

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Categories: runneth, life, water,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member A Cup Runneth Over
A Cup Runneth Over

His cup runneth over, yet he craves more
As flights of hubris on wings of greed soar,
Rich is the life of caviar and...

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Categories: runneth, emotions, humanity, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member A Cup Runneth Over

Prayer is something we can do
When all the pain is raw like a wound
Cutting the heart with its harsh
Blade, twisting, curled, burning away
Every piece of...

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Categories: runneth, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Free verse
A Cup Runneth Over
When I hear the chirping of bizarre birds in the morning,
And see the sun gently rising; golden rays adorning;
And feel the graciousness of the almighty...

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Categories: runneth, blessing, happiness, life,
Form: Rhyme
My Cup Runneth Over
The Lord is my shepherd, no want shall I know;
I lie in green pastures, by still waters go;
My soul is restored and the right paths...

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Categories: runneth, faith,
Form: Lyric



Premium Member It's Only Through Jesus
~It's Only Through Jesus~ 
(Rhyme) 


It's only through Jesus that we can come to that wonderful place 
So filled of love, and peace and supplied...

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Categories: runneth, christian, faith, god, inspirational,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Will Be With You
I walk upon the earth with my pup
No one is in sight they are all closed up
Tight within their homes with flight and fear 
From...

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Categories: runneth, courage, god, hope, jesus,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Modern Version Psalm 23 Poetry Contest-The Lord Is My Muse
According to Jung, “The creative urge lives and grows in a person like a tree in the earth from which it draws its nourishment. We...

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Categories: runneth, inspirational, muse,
Form: Free verse
Euphoric Kiss
Yore of moments pass
From within the eve 
Of mazarine 
Heavens celestial body

Pulse of heatwave passions
As spell are cast
Of star gaze
She, upon the auspicious me

Sultry eyes,...

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Categories: runneth, art, happiness, love, wife,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member 23rd
“The Lord is my Shepherd”
Unless there’s somewhere I want to go
I pretend I’m seeking guidance 
Yet my pace doesn’t slow.

“I Shall not want”
But really I...

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Categories: runneth, god,
Form: Quatrain
The Longest Dawn Part 3 Hc Sonnets
THE LONGEST DAWN PART 3 H.C.SONNETS

There is nothing, everything, pain and joy
We can’t go back, struggle on for their sakes 
A blank sheet to fill,...

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Categories: runneth, life, drug,
Form: Crown of Sonnets
The Colors Green
The colors so green
Drifting high in the trees
Are like none that I’ve seen
In the warm summer breeze

Blinders for the eyes
Casting out your sun
Shadows on the...

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Categories: runneth, dream, imagery, life, nature,
Form: Free verse
Writing From the Heart
I wrote this poem upon my lovers face,

So she would know that my love could never be erased,

I wrote this poem upon my lover's neck,

So...

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Categories: runneth, devotion, happiness, imagination, inspirational,
Form: Romanticism
Working the Land
The estate of my spreading life
has been plowed over many times.
Plantations have withered and been replanted,
grain fields have turned to dust,
have laid fallow for years
yet...

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Categories: runneth, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Abundance
ABUNDANCE
"When your cup runneth over, and all your pals get straws to sip from it"

Indiana Shaw . . . ; )...

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Categories: runneth, for her, for him,
Form: Monoku

Book: Shattered Sighs