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Premium Member Salt of the Earth
Everyone will be salted with fire. “Salt is good, but if it loses its saltiness, how can you make it salty again? Have salt among...

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Categories: salt of the earth, faith,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Salt of the Earth - 1
Salt is the seasoning, the spice of life
The reason for giving out
Flavors to heal hurt
Herbs to relieve grief
Suggestions that fill minds
With hope, faith and love

Salt...

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Categories: salt of the earth, blessing, christian, god, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member - a Most Beautiful Symphony of Love -
Rhythmic tones form a most beautiful symphony of love 
A shining star as nature's splendor reflects Heaven’s light 
It’s my destiny to learn a passion...

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Categories: salt of the earth, art, beauty, love, universe,
Form: Free verse
Salt
The salt of the seas
sacred in nature...
the salt spice of life
that sweetens our existence...
Albumin, salt of tears
that we cry with blissfulness or sadness...
the salt of...

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Categories: salt of the earth, allegory, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member A Kind Soul
A pure of heart authentic human
That is what I love about you
You speak with sincerity and honesty
Salt of the earth through and through

No airs and...

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© Deb M   Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salt of the earth, integrity, trust, truth,
Form: Rhyme



Pass the Salt, Please
Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it 
be salted? It is henceforth cast out,...

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© James Tate  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salt of the earth, nature
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Pearl Dreams of Rare Love
Break these chains that bind
holding in the deep ovens
blazing a fire for love. 

Smiling midday moon
dressed in a baby blue sky
with sparsely scattered clouds dot.

White...

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Categories: salt of the earth, beauty, emotions, heaven, imagery,
Form: Terza Rima
Just a Barmaid
"come on, get your coat off, its bloody ten too"
not even eleven and there forming a que
"just a barmaid" thats what they say
service with a...

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Categories: salt of the earth, drink, fun, funny, humorous,
Form: ABC
Premium Member Brothers and Sisters of Eden
A world changes course 
expelling the good grim reaper 
twisted joke 
entering this forbidden zone 
called democracy 

Careless acts of violence black and white
mothers burying...

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Categories: salt of the earth, angel, blessing, dark, deep,
Form: Narrative
Everyone's Sister
She has the wind in her hair, winter, spring
summer, fall. The wind sings her name. Her
name is on the tip of the tongue. She is...

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Categories: salt of the earth, longing,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member The Writer
Fancy that...
Being able to spend the whole morning
Writing a poem!

My mother's hands
Were etched in a network of tiny cracks.
Salt of the earth, the doctor said....

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Categories: salt of the earth, hurt, mother, poetess, sad
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Peanut Butter Married Jam---
PEANUT BUTTER MARRIED JAM---


If peanut-butter married, Jam
Would that make them: Marmalade;
And if you were to throw seasoning out on to the dirt;
Would it then be…the...

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Categories: salt of the earth, allusion, analogy, word play,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ordinary Hero
There goes my hero, he’s ordinary, 
like in the Foo Fighters song 
Carries no airs or graces, 
makes me feel like I belong 
A family...

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Categories: salt of the earth, allusion, hero, people,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Immaculate Deception
She came from heaven, I tainted a desert
      She knew how to smile, I washed in dirt 
  ...

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Categories: salt of the earth, allusion, desire, perspective,
Form: Monorhyme
A Euphemistic Dinner Conversation On Idioms
Avoiding the unpleasantries of the Barbarians At The Gate                ...

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© John Beam  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: salt of the earth, allegory, humorous, political, satire,
Form: Free verse

Book: Shattered Sighs