Best Upbringing Poems

When I take my nephew
to the park to play basketball,
I look around to spot trolls
who litter and destroy.
" Look at those hoodlooms,
how they behave and talk! "
" They are my friends " he 
exclaims. " Your friends?
Has your mom met them? "
" Scondrels and slanderers
have...

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Well, well, well, well, this is the story of four holes
How's that for a real grabber my merry old souls
Ear holes, nostrils, and mouth
And one other a little bit further south
My sheltered and cultured upbringing won't allow me to utter it! A––––––


© Jack Ellison 2015...

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memory  of  happy   childhood  ...  comfort   along   path  of  adulthood 




19/08/16
Contest: monoku madness (John Hamilton) - Win 1st place
17 styllables (howmanysyllables.com)...

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Well, well, well, well, this is the story of four holes
How's that for a real grabber my merry old souls
Ear holes, nostrils, and mouth
And one other a little bit further south
My sheltered upbringing won't allow me to say *******...

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Raise Jubilantly
Love Gracefully...

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My friends go and not come back I have no clue what reason they have
decided to betray me all I know is that i'am tired of being lied to
I'm tired of losing my friends how come every time i got to know a friend
they up...

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Well, well, well, well, this is the story of four holes
How's that for a real grabber my merry old souls
Ear holes, nostrils, and mouth
And one other a little bit further south
My sheltered upbringing won't allow me to say *******...

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Well, well, well, well, this is the story of four holes
How's that for a real grabber my merry old souls
Ear holes, nostrils, and mouth
And one other a little further south
But my sheltered upbringing won't allow me to say *******...

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Well, well, well, well, this is the story of four holes
How's that for a real grabber my merry old souls
Ear holes, nostrils, and mouth
And another one further south
But my sheltered upbringing won't allow me to say *******...

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At the cost of my very own happiness
I was kept safe from the darkness.
But the way I was solitarily raised
Only deepened how I felt grazed....

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I
Capitalists sell prayers and hope
From China, PRC, to you and me
In images and words: forward these
To all your contacts - such positivity
Yet we hear, embedded spyware 
Comes with readymade China prayer
To Jesus or more often, "the Universe"

II
LORD, I owe my all to thee
My two children...

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"I love you" was withheld
for lies weren't to be told.
To make this statement bold,
(too hastily expelled)
sin nature must be quelled.
Who can this task uphold?

Cautious with statements vain,
(no room left for error
as love's image bearer)
we claim not to attain
such love for truth of stain.
(Threat of the...

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 In her womb, I laid 
grew my hands, legs…
till I was fully formed.
Got out after nine months,
laid on her back,
In her arms,
On her laps…
She would snuggle me in her arms
and assure me of how much she loved me.

I will cry so hard, 
sometimes she...

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The starry night,
Put me on a Trailblazer,
Walking through a crowd,
Without making a scene,
Of all the people I have seen,
Is there a place where I have been,
To a corridor where I have been there since,
I give myself a triumphant glimpse,
Until the eclipse,
Overshadowed by the blink,
It is...

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I am not hardened by your strong sense of will 
And i am not weakened by any fragility of spirit
I am not stood still, awaiting my becoming – i am flowing
And no longer do i fear the ingrained teachings of which you still hold dear

I have...

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