Best Taketh Poems

The Bewitching Call of the Siren

She ululates a forlorn desire for a human love;
She’s pure evil, not from God’s Heaven above.
This siren’s seductive melody is...

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Whiskey Lips So Sublime

Whiskey Lips step now over the line of true fire-water,
As a warm-burning brings forward one glowing sign.
The golden mead of sweet mountain...

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Life is but a winding road
Filled with faces along the way
Coming in and out of your life
Coloring your every day

Yet most spend just a moment
A...

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At the center of the hurricane blast, within the lightning
Flash lies the wicked eye of the calming storm, a weeping
Echoing of a widow maker’s somber...

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Broken Trust, Dying Of Love


Baby, nobody came when I cried out for you
if I were a lawyer maybe I would just sue
if a doctor, would...

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" I Smote Thy Heart" 

by~ Richard Pickett

Upon the morrow, I shall take aim
with this slender feathered shaft at the heart of thee,
it shall pierce...

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Thou speaketh this unto your power:

The soul is true self, sure in itself.
The individual of the soul that separates itself is lost,
Doth hinders its flow...

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I'm here my dear friends,
in any capacity that you may need.
The redneck poet,
with a pen that bleeds.

I'll stay on my leash,
all cuddly and cute.
Don't bite...

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Thee, are my deepest emotions; taken beyond; my control.
Thou do express love; sweeter; than view of sunshine.
One single touch, from you, feels so fine.
No thoughts...

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Not on the streets where one would fear for safety.
In a home where nobody is rood.
Not under a bridge in search of a place to...

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HOLY IS THE LAMB

Born the holy Lamb of God,
A precious gift from god above,
Born to change the path of man,
To instigate God’s holy plan.
Born into...

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( I write this with a heavy heart.......My grandma (My dad's mommma)passed away on June 14........ it has been hard dealing with all the emotions...

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Wisdom are words you can take and go, Prov.1:2 TO KNOW WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION. will make you grow, not crash but have a very good...

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     Good Morning Soul…

Good morning soul.
Today I’m gone to write
a poem that simply suggested 
its self to me last night.

It will...

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                My love for thee is like a sparrow
 ...

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Red lights in the western window
Five hundred feet and counting
The continuous pour
Of 1975 or was it 76
Appearing over the hill top
Like Kilroy
Only still here

The pipes...

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With a deafening thunder
and blazing lightning,
Amidst a swirling clouds
of dark ominous smoke,
He appeared suddenly
Smack in front of me -
A most hideous being
who appeared neither
human nor...

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Whiskey Lips So Sublime

Whiskey Lips step now over the line of true fire-water,
As a warm-burning brings forward one glowing sign.
The golden mead of sweet mountain...

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Befallen the house of the father,

for this courage it was my light,

oh taketh my hand and lead me, through darkness and be it my sight,

forgive...

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Wealth giveth, yet
Taketh away, God Giveth
And giveth a way...

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The Good Lord Giveth,
And The Good Lord Taketh Away,
The sun is set on our times together and I hold no hope for a brighter day.

Everything...

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With a deafening thunder
and blazing lightning,
Amidst a swirling clouds
of dark ominous smoke,
He appeared suddenly
smack in front of me--
A most hideous being
who appeared neither
human nor a...

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Good Evening, the BBC presents
The highlights from the days events

I pass you now to Sally Hughes
Who brings you all the evening news

Today in Paris, bomb...

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Not on the streets where one would fear for safety.
In a home where nobody is rood.
Not under a bridge in search of a place to...

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October moon shine, 
Full-orbed as you were, 
Breaking thru the pine, 
Stir not yonder beacon, past.

Your veil of light, 
Quietly doeth shine, 
As if taken...

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