Best Unearned Poems

How fragile is the heart that loves;
   that stands out naked, unafraid,
      and takes a chance to share...

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Based on the Scripture, 2 Timothy 3:3-13, which gives 
warning to escape the snare of the birdcatcher.

On stage he struts in sequined costume
a plume of...

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In borrowed plumes, a masquerade we stage,
Thoughts echo doctrines, passions preordained.
From broken families, where fractured spirits weep,
Mothers of sorrow, 
With eyes that never sleep.

We inherit...

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Building castles in the air,
Gold and diamonds everywhere;
You were the brightest stars in your own skies

In empty space you built your dreams
Behind  computer screens
You...

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My subject is nothing new.  It's been around since Adam and Eve.  Like the 
snake and the apple.

It's the enabled kid who throws...

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Let me tell you the story of the pie piper
Had a flute he played so said the flyer

The town we lived in was on fire
Our...

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Encased in earthen form, I rise,
held chest-tight with fear my eyes belie.
Tumbled stone and ancient steps so steep,
lead to a mound and valley deep
where I...

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You may be sitting high and mighty now my friend 
but you will not always be 
for your unearned happiness will one day end 
should...

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I have a duty to the form
for in the past it was the norm
to insult the queen and king
with lyrics for peons to sing.
A mix...

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Another cabinet of curiosity
What's your super ability
Where endless are the possibilites 
What's your philosophy
when it comes to Deuteronomy
Does it carry into Timothy
Do you judge with...

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In endless quest we sought seclusions peace                  ...

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Each day foul critters infest our house
Though not by slipping in like a mouse
We just press a button
Or buy a subscription
To get news wrote or...

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educated dalit, working in office elite,
his journey from rags to riches,
hardly matters for high caste there,
safeguarded through religious care,
see the dalit with crucifying glare,
wonder how...

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And it will be served proudly

Shore to shore, long highways roam undignified
through heartlands of wounded fields, crying
overgrown long of factories closed,
unemployment, crime,  
homes foreclosed...

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mountains bob like corks
adrift on liquid magma -
pond scum shelters life

Earth’s magnetic shield -
magma’s gift of moving charge
thwarts sun’s deadly winds

continental drift -
neighborhoods fenced by...

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