Juneteenth
...Juneteenth
It's June 19,2025
Today, i choose to thrive
Let's get it broken down
Knowledge is wealth
Let's explain the story
It's better when we hear it from thyself
It's a holiday comm...
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Categories:
commemorating, america,
Form: Free verse
May 8, 1945
...
Monuments went up commemorating the end of World War II
It wasn't so long ago in Europe, their scars still show ~
A long and vicious war with horrific consequences
So much to rebuild but it wa...
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Categories:
commemorating, men, war, wisdom, world
Form: Free verse
They are Honoured
...A dealer of drugs
With immense wealth
Was chosen as president
Of a meeting
commemorating the foundation day
Of a local club
by its office bearers.
As the meeting concluded
He announced a do...
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Categories:
commemorating, society,
Form: Free verse
The Balangiga Bells
...The whole of Eastern Samar
Is commemorating its historic
Battle joined by local patriots
Of Balangiga and neighboring towns
On September 28 1901, the only battle won
By fighting Filipinos ag...
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Categories:
commemorating, culture, freedom, history, people,
Form: Narrative
EMPTY ROOM ONCE
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Absent from the body
against oxygen-gasping
Dad entered his
Father's house
of "many mansions..."*
Today, we gather
as his fruits with gratitude
commemorating Father's Day
in thi...
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Categories:
commemorating, appreciation, blessing, christian, encouraging,
Form: Dramatic Verse
If Only You Knew
...If only you knew the feel of a zephyr,
With its current swooping around hillsides
Ruffling the spruce trees everywhere,
Or descend downwards towards verdant vales
Where flowers bloom all through ...
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Categories:
commemorating, abuse, food, humanity, ocean,
Form: Free verse
Ressurection Sunday
...We search not the living among the dead
The wine that is His blood and His flesh that is the bread
We partake with His Word and in joyous psalms
Commemorating His death till He comes
That the sl...
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Categories:
commemorating, christian, easter,
Form: Rhyme
Moonstones in Artless Skies
...It feels like the world
has been struck by a
plague of pathological lies,
where fictional truth
seems to sell better,
the allure of
imitation glistens
even brighter,
while superficial...
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Categories:
commemorating, angst,
Form: Free verse
Love blooms in four seasons
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In my past existence,
circumstance sowed my roots
deep into woods of foreign soil,
slowly I ascended spreading my wings,
yearning to be evergreen,
blossoming in summer with glossy verdant le...
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Categories:
commemorating, analogy, emotions, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
DESCRIPTIONS -INDIVIDUALITY
...DESCRIPTIONS
meaningful
actuality
half hidden
aborbs
the
joyous
so
positively
apparent
incisive
eloquent
&
unquenchable
in
relished
definitive
tonality
instinctive
&
outstan...
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Categories:
commemorating, poetry,
Form: Verse
Life
...The concept of emptiness
The vanity of vanity
What is enjoyment in you
The opaque that walks in the night
Like a strange soul upon the stygian bank
Wallowing in the pool of abomination
Dr...
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Categories:
commemorating, black love, conflict, death,
Form: Ode
Man of the Year
...Santa Claus, a man born for the Anniversary of Jesus our savior Babe
Another year has passed. As we celebrate the Anniversary of Christ
Rays of light benignl...
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Categories:
commemorating, devotion,
Form: Acrostic
A Rose For a Rose
...Pink rose, plucked from its garden of sweet earth,
laid fondly on her grave to venerate
a woman of inestimable worth
on this, her day of birth I celebrate -
one rose to join the rose who gave me ...
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Categories:
commemorating, birthday, grave, mother, rose,
Form: Quintain (Sicilian)
Christmas In July
...Gripped by jubilant spirit of Christ’s birth*
Resounding that Messiah came to earth
Our church celebrates Mission Month with zest
Every July midst Gospel-preaching crest.
Reverberating ...
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Categories:
commemorating, blessing, celebration, christian, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
From Dusk To Dawn
...A Twilight ends the sweltering day with a dusky simmer
American liberty, is what we're commemorating
Firecrackers burst above us, romantic, lights that shimmer
Under a lit sky w...
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Categories:
commemorating, celebration, freedom, sky,
Form: Quatrain
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