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Best Samaritan Poems

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Good Samaritan
A guy was drunk in a bar
I offered to drive him home
He fell 5 times in the parking lot
So I couldn't leave him alone.

I got...

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Categories: samaritan, funny
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member As For Me I Believe
It is the winter of 1980.
I’m twenty-eight years young, 
Driving a red Mustang with glass T-tops,
Feeling all of my awesome sassiness, from toe
To Afro, when...

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Categories: samaritan, adventure, angel, blessing, christian,
Form: Metrical Tale
Mary Magdalene
One summer eve in Galilee
I stood before my open door;
to me it seemed just one more night--
like all the others gone before.
Someone would come and,...

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Categories: samaritan, christian, devotion, easter, faith,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member If I Could Change the World

Keep technology
but bring back the old values
of those former years-
when love of God and country,
respect, pride, and honor ruled.

Bring back old values
of family, friends, church,...

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Categories: samaritan, change, world,
Form: Tanka
A Heart of Stone For a Heart of Flesh
Infinite hearts of infinite loves
Sent to earth on wings of diligent doves

Infinite wisdom with infinite smiles
Sent to earth for her turbulent trials

Infinite eyes through infinite...

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Categories: samaritan, jesus, spiritual,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Hey, Your Fly Is Open


      It could have been me,
      It might have been you.
    ...

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Categories: samaritan, abuse, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
Note For the Faint Hearted
When she was born she had no father,
spent nights in the streets to feed her mother,
who was diagnose with a disease cancer,
she strolled the streets...

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Categories: samaritan, funeral, recovery from..., house,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Good Samaritans By the Hundreds
"Woman raises over $315K for homeless veteran . . ."  ABC News Nov '17

			
A homeless man with only twenty dollars to his name,
a sincere...

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Categories: samaritan, giving,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The King of Mercy
Ten Lepers sought the Lord 
carrying their badges with a Plea 
unclean unclean was the cry 
Mercy alone was their Plea
The King of mercy heard...

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Categories: samaritan, blessing, character, eulogy, gospel,
Form: Masnavi
Religion
It is not my intent to Laypeople offend, 

When I refer to religion contrived by greedy men. 

Not all, some individuals always ready, 

To take...

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Categories: samaritan, religion,
Form: Rhyme
Stray Dog
He who is born in the ruthless streets of a busy city
I am without a home
A family
Nor a companion
I am all alone

My homes differ from...

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Categories: samaritan, animal, dog, endurance,
Form: Free verse
On the Road To Vezalay Part 2
The Holy Land

The butchers slab of Hell, of Christian and Infidel.
Swords slash and cut lose the soul, fear! not 
conscience pays the toll. And yet...

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Categories: samaritan, educationwords, me, christian, prayer,
Form: Epic
Premium Member Great Grandma's Ghost
She came back like she said she would.
Great grandma was not a typical ghost
She was a kindred spirit guiding for good
Just when we needed her...

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Categories: samaritan, america, baby, black african
Form: Rhyme
What Would Santa Claus Say
What Would Santa Claus Say
by Michael R. Burch
 
What would Santa Claus say,
I wonder,
about Jesus returning
to Kill and Plunder?
 
For he’ll likely return
on Christmas Day
to...

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Categories: samaritan, bible, christian, god, jesus,
Form: Verse
Premium Member The Lay of the Best Man - Part 1
The Lay of The Best Man - Part One

I’ve seen men ‘good’, and surely, I’ve seen men ‘bad’
So jealous and so envious, I’ve seen men...

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Categories: samaritan, humanity, men,
Form: Lay

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