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Braden Poems - Poems about Braden


Premium Member Closed Community Prejudice--an Alphabetized Memoir
... (Note: In this abecedarian poem, I redacted the name of the particular denomination to protect the innocent and to universalize the context. Fill in your own favorite groups! Prejudice against ......

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Categories: braden, community, discrimination, hate, prejudice,
Form: Abecedarian
Premium Member Races
...(Note: This poem was written shortly after the 2022 Olympics and after Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos rode their rockets in a new space race for billionaires.) Races By ......

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Categories: braden, black african american, discrimination,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Salvage
... "Salvage" Salvage the fixating salvation unfurling from the wreckage of a numb world twisted inside treasure climbs swimming the ladder from the deep of all things ......

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Categories: braden, muse, paradise, poets,
Form: Romanticism
To Kiley, Hunter, Braden, and Parker
...The house is quiet, as Knothead’s asleep Hershey Kisses in place on the staircase to reap There’s snow on the roof, with the chimney unblocked For Santa to enter, new soot on his frock ......

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Categories: braden, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member The Calming of Her Storm
... "The Calming of Her Storm" My mother gave me solace I fell into her deep hollows to kiss the wisdom of her breath chanting quietly I still hear her nightingale bi......

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Categories: braden, love, mirror, muse,
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Recollection
...Swift and sweet, how memories rise diamond- strung in a room of silver Slick and sleek from a stormy world solid tree trunks on a bell- clear morning. Liberum Divisa 4 Poetry Contest Gregory R......

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Categories: braden, emotions, introspection, memory,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member As Above, So Below - the Messengers
... "As Above, So Below - The Messengers" One day when this sad story has all blown over of how we came to be walking the earth below the ve......

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Categories: braden, animal, god, humanity, i
Form: Free verse
Premium Member I Can'T Breathe I Am
... "I Can't Breathe I Am" I can’t breathe when you paint the words “Flow” on my throat when the words are trapped and I am gagged I c......

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Categories: braden, color, freedom, i am,
Form: Free verse
Only a Tiger - Nursery Rhyme 48
...Only a Tiger will approach a Tiger, Lions never do To give him pause and make him think, “What will this Tiger do” All other beasts he rests cocksure, a meal they will become But faced w......

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Categories: braden, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
The Dog and the Kitty
...The Doggie was white, and the Kitty was black, as they crouched at each end of the floor Their eyes never met, because the rules were set, that the dog would chase the cat as before ......

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Categories: braden, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
The Dog and the Kitty
...The Doggie was white, and the Kitty was black, as they crouched at opposite ends of the floor Their eyes never met, because the rules were set that the dog would chase the cat as befor......

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Categories: braden, animal, childhood, nursery rhyme,
Form: Rhyme
Now Mine To Keep
...My first breath every morning, a thank-you to the Lord My heart beats then in tribute, single note in heaven’s chord My last breath every evening, as I close my eyes to sleep To th......

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Categories: braden, prayer,
Form: Couplet

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