Beneath the Trees
...You’re in the garden, playing ball with Pippa
In half an hour you’ll have your evening meal
The green of grass is glowing slightly deeper
I’m playing solitaire and thinking if you feel
Same as I ...
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Categories:
bg, love, memory,
Form: Rhyme
Submission
...Submission
Please grant me my submission,
for my great commission,
of crimes in uncertain times.
I think my dear we can work it out,
if you will think about,
the fact I no...
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Categories:
bg, love,
Form: Rhyme
Blue Stripe To Shy To Ask Whitey Out
...Blue Stripe was in love with the fortune-telling albino cat.
Today it was raining so hard, he ran out without his hat.
He wanted to make sure she knew he was “all of that.”
Whitey saw him arriving...
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Categories:
bg, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Love Embrace of Mercy and Grace
...Springs of gratitude awake I rise, to sweet aromas of all promises embraced, the light of day my heart full of praise, to the place I go of God’s… mercy and grace.
Reminded my heart to my knees fi...
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Categories:
bg, blessing, faith, happiness, love,
Form: Rhyme
Get No Gifts Sans Giving
...Only so pleased by sacrifice
Proffered through sacred flame,
Graceful gods do give gifts of choice
So deserved by unselfish aim;
He that eats fruits by them bestowed,
And gives not so in turn,
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Categories:
bg, giving, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Attachment
...~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
When you CLUTCH the VINES of attachment
GRASP them tightly, HOLD on to them
You suffer multi HUED agony endlessly
You GASP in pain
Remember ...
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Categories:
bg, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
Don'T Criticize God
...
All
humans
were made by
God. All have the
same roots, same body
internally.
Need for love
found in
all
All
those who
believe that
some humans are
superior to
others ...
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Categories:
bg, 10th grade,
Form: Ninette
Dreams Are Dreams
...Moment a desire arises
we become joyous
Mind starts ruminating
We are hooked on to it
What began as a mere thought
Now controls our mind, actions
Mind thinks about non fulfillment of desire ...
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Categories:
bg, 10th grade, desire,
Form: Imagism
We Are Souls Not Body
...When
a part
of body does
not function properly it can
be repaired, replaced. We are neither
body nor a part of body
We are
soul
When
we find
it difficult
to breathe, ...
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Categories:
bg, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Tainted Vision
...Conditioned since birth by customs, family, society and ego
We go about with a clustered mind
Complicating our simple life with our thoughts and self-imposed restrictions
We don't see a human as ...
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Categories:
bg, spiritual,
Form: Free verse
Forgiveness - Edited With Addendum
...She always shouted at me
criticized me full day
Told my husband, in laws and kid I am bad
They hated me
and treated me badly
Every moment everyone only told me how bad I am
It seemed as if ...
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Categories:
bg, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Je T'Aime 'Neath a Banyan Tree - Erotic Verse
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The story behind this poem
The curiosity of many of my readers (many of them women) was excited in my previous poem ‘Passion in Black and White’ POTD 6 March. They wanted to know m...
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Categories:
bg, i love you, inspirational,
Form: Verse
My Memories of Billy Graham
...Having been converted the year before
Dr Graham came over the following year
to preach at Mission England in the UK
Sunderland was the nearest venue I could hear
I decided to spend a week down ...
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Categories:
bg, america, christian, history,
Form: Rhyme
Sunset
...The Busiest swallows and adamant cranes
settled at last
Alluring starlings in murmuration
caught my gaze
Roosting of these birds proclaimed
a ma...
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Categories:
bg, beauty, sunset,
Form: Free verse
Smokey and the Blue Jays
...As a child had a cat,
A big black cat named Smokey.
Since I couldn't say his name,
I simply called hm Pokey.
He was my cat, I loved hm so,
A lovely bg black Persian.
My daddy bought hm just ...
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Categories:
bg, cat, , cute,
Form: Quatrain
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