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Two
Star-crossed lovers? Not even close
The two were brought together at first sight, it seemed no future
Came from different families. One  with an alcoholic mother....

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Categories: successors, life, love, poems, seasons,
Form: I do not know?



Under the Father Land
UNDER THE FATHER LAND
 We serve under the father land
 In huminity we render 
 Selfless services in cosmopolitanism 
 In peace-less and troubless downtown...

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Categories: successors, abuse, betrayal,
Form: Pastoral
Her Name Is Poverty
She tells me, 
Of the belt of hunger that clings to her waist, 
Of how it's only ever loosened by rampaging and rummaging through waste.

She...

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Categories: successors, loss, social, sympathy, riddle,
Form: Alliteration
Us Marine Sniper
Specter of a Hero's Tortured 
Soul
Forfeiting faith to successors to 
sacrifice self for others...he 
believes not in himself but his 
progeny...
Eternal life and inflexible 
determination...

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© Alex W.  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: successors, warself, self,
Form: I do not know?
Ancient Prophecy
The tender, torpid sun floats bored and heavy over vines
And casts his gentle, crimson rays upon the Apennines. 
Above the calm and golden hill, Agrippa’s...

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Categories: successors, destiny, history, mythology, patriotic,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member Unquotable Quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen - Xxiv Part One
Unquotable quotes: Witch-Doctors and Tribal Headmen* – XXIV-Part One

The Uhr-Father of the embodiment of spiritual power since the Middle Ages must certainly have been the...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: successors, allegory, heaven, humanity, leadership,
Form: Epigram
Blue Iris
Blue Iris, 
Grimoire gondolas steal unbound human yawns,
Each Charon poised with sallow spear along the River:
Austere laughter of headless boughs 
sipping grave-scented spiritual kisses.

Gruel to...

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Categories: successors, anger, anxiety, beauty, dream,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
New Year
It's Hogmanay the 31st 
Only alchahol to quench the thirst 
Its time again for the new year plan
Let's start the calendar with a bang

Resolutions, solutions...

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Categories: successors, celebration, deep, desire, meaningful,
Form: Acrostic
A Frog
A Frog

Frog, what did he do wrong?
He was run over by a car, dead.

Long and bitter cold winter months
he was hiding in a cave, frozen,
did...

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© Su Ben  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: successors, metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Breaking Barriers
If we could breach this gap,
Abolish chains separating us from the right track,
If we could read this untapped map,
Unlock the enigma from butterfly to cocoon...

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Categories: successors, caregiving, childhood, education, faith,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member Church Called Apostolic
Father Christ called apostles
Be His collaborators
They were His eye witnesses
Apostles are priests and teachers

Holds fast their tradition
Governed by their successors
Successor was first pope, St. Peter
To...

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Categories: successors, christian, religion, religious,
Form: I do not know?
Rites and Wrongs
Rites and Wrongs  

This write suggests the search of many slants
Pursuing words of truth you hold most clear.
Stand sober toward the charlatans whose rants
Exact...

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Categories: successors, abuse,
Form: Didactic
Premium Member The Thiruk-Kural On Not Offending the Great: Canto 90, K899 and K900
THIRUK-KURAL on not offending the Great*: Periyaaraip Pilaiyaamai - Canto 90, K899 and K900

[* The "Great" here are indifferently the King or other learned and...

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© T Wignesan  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: successors, political, power, tamil, ,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member Acorn's Farewell Address
Optimizing my essence-verity
being a contributor to ecology’s beauty
since for such I was created* by the Almighty…
allow me now to advertise my blessed bounty
as the lone...

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Categories: successors, appreciation, creation, environment, god,
Form: Personification
The Beer Summit of 2009
He said, he said
I am history it is not dead.
I do testify,
that they ask for more than an alibi.
My face alone! Metal to bone.
See how...

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Categories: successors, history, judgement, people, perspective,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Shattered Sighs