Musings On Prayer
...Folding hands in prayer, what do we ask?
Are we poised in calm or quaking in fear,
hoping God will do our unfinished task?
Do we pray that He brigs to us good cheer
or do we truly wish that He co...
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Categories:
brigs, prayer,
Form: Dizain
Byte Size Food Begets Best Bedeviled Egg Head Benefits
...Byte size food begets best bedeviled egg head benefits
re: visited today April 12th, 2023
Way before aye knew
the name Fletcherism applied
family and friends even
Smetana's bartered bride
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Categories:
brigs, 12th grade, adventure, april,
Form: Rhyme
Bass Strait Sealing Rush
...The Bass Strait sealing rush began in eighteen-o-three,
where at least a dozen vessels were wrestling with the sea,
for the China trade was booming, for the want of skins and oils.
This was the fi...
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Categories:
brigs, history,
Form: Lyric
How a Cowboy Loves, Part I
...Merrick Brigs worked at Caldwell’s ranch,
offering two-week excursions by horse,
up in the Rockies they’d ride and camp,
suburban cowboys loved it, of course.
One summer day he got a new rider,
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Categories:
brigs, depression, heartbreak, loss, love,
Form: Cowboy Poetry
The Manchester Ship Canal - Part Two
...Stilled again across the canals broadening
Girth;
Mesh cages of rock-filled Gabions
Reinforcing patches of exposed and arid earth,
Reflecting the glints that gleefully
Twist and dance in the h...
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Categories:
brigs, history, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Summer Replaced By Autumn Hue
...When life has lost its colour and,
Summer is replaced by Autumn hue and,
The world feels black and white yet,
The only bringer of colour is you.
Your hair so black it shines through the grey,
Your o...
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Categories:
brigs, autumn, confusion, happiness, love,
Form: Iambic Pentameter