Preacher Dressed In Black
...There is no death there is only sleep.
Shouted the preacher he was a tall man
with a white beard that hung below his waist
He was dressed in black and standing.
on the buckboard of his wa...
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Categories:
buckboard, bible, christian, faith, gospel,
Form: Free verse
Deadwood
...I'm working off my sins in the usual way,
A Cornish knight of no worship,
Languishing amid the aroma
Of easy women and open bets.
Don't tell the boss, but I'd do it for free
So long as the ...
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Categories:
buckboard, allegory, western,
Form: Blank verse
A Time Past
...There’s something exceptional about country life
Taking me back to when things were so slow
Sitting under a tree coring an apple with a knife
Gazing over golden corn and counting each row
The g...
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Categories:
buckboard, black african american, childhood,
Form: Rhyme
Two Greatest Commandments
...37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love yo...
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Categories:
buckboard, allegory, analogy, religious,
Form: Limerick
My Dear Little Sister Tacey and All the Ways You Amaze Me
...She's pretty tough for one so small
When things get rough she stands so tall
With a bundle of Love so beautiful
Good things come in small packages
God not her farts they smell like cabbages
Or...
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Categories:
buckboard, growing up,
Form: I do not know?
Really
...REALLY
I ------JGL-------------- do solemnly swear
to tell you of all that I see and I hear,
invite you inside that dark space in my mind
allow you ten minutes to see what you find.
The erro...
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Categories:
buckboard, children, family, father, truth,
Form: Verse
The Old Man and the Mule
...A faint outline appeared in the early morn
a full moon still shed its light, dark shadows
spread across the land casting an eerie
shadow over the far distant hills.
An old buckboard clattered...
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Categories:
buckboard, life, old, work, old,
Form: Free verse