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When I Was Small
...I spied an ant beneath a kitchen sink and I remembered as he made me think about that steely silent battle of wills, under a wee mushroom, below its gills, when I was a hopeful, contending dro......
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David Crandall
Categories:
contending,
insect,
Form:
Rhyme
Of Tragedy She Would Not Write
... Of imagery in yonder meadow she had much to say from daffodils on rolling hills to ivy covered fences Yet of tragedy she would not write of carnivores co......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
contending,
animal, conflict, dark, flower,
Form:
Rhyme
LATE NIGHTS
...Late-night talks have always been the best. The love I have for you is priceless. I don’t want anyone but you; you have to be mine. I need those late-night conversations. I want to feel reconnected w......
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Christopher Michaels
Categories:
contending,
good night, missing you,
Form:
Verse
FAITH IN GOD WHO PERFORMS WHAT HE SAYS
...April 17 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on 1Kings 12-14 Key Verse – 1Kings 12:15 …For the cause was from the LORD, that he might perform his saying, which the LORD spake… <>...
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Beata Agustin
Categories:
contending,
bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form:
Quatrain
The signs of the times according to Daniel 12:12-13 part two and Q and A
...V 12 "Blessed is he who waits, and comes to one thousand three hundred and thirty-five days. V 13 "But you, go your way til the end; for you shall rest (your body shall rest in your grave.) (In th......
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Roxanne Dubarry
Categories:
contending,
10th grade, 11th grade,
Form:
Prose
The Fireworks Have Begun
... An angel and a devil work me over every morn Contending for ownership to neither (am I) forsworn I tell myself I won’t succumb to the devil, that old bum ......
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Gershon Wolf
Categories:
contending,
angel, dark, power,
Form:
Rhyme
Envision
... (Prompt: Wisdom is not enough to calm your fears.) The kinetic world is on a great sprint. The silent seer stares at with a squint. He feels distressed for the occurring harms. With a solem......
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Patri Venkata Ramana
Categories:
contending,
fear, love,
Form:
Rhyme
BEYOND FAREWELL
...Bound to reach a close, everything goes as thus Your farewell etched like a scar Whispers in the dark, so it flows Echoes in my mind as I still drift afar Contemplating lies, contending excuses ......
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Ella Ige
Categories:
contending,
absence, death of a
Form:
Rhyme
Every January first of the new year
...Every January first of the new year... finds me (a doggone muttering *****sapien) to give pause for reminiscences and to take stock (sh lock and barrel) about mein kampf in general and previou......
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Matthew Harris
Categories:
contending,
adventure, age, america, angel,
Form:
Free verse
Love Has Gone and Left Me
...Love has gone and left me Yet the day continues on I wake to ruminations Plaguing me from dusk till dawn. ____________________________________ My feet now hit the carpet As I gather......
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Carrie Farrar
Categories:
contending,
angst, conflict, emotions,
Form:
Rhyme
abrupt adjournment
...I stay stationary, collapsed, in a room unlike mine I stay bare, as I wait for my thoughts to align the bloodied hand continues it's repetitive round soon the dust in this chamber will have me dro......
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Maeve McCollins
Categories:
contending,
break up, first love,
Form:
Rhyme
My Friend Arthur
... We were bused from Sacramento to Reno. We rode a train from Reno to Salt Lake City. We then bused from SLC to Kansas City. Somewhere along the I-80 route, we crossed the Great Divide. At t......
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Curtis Johnson
Categories:
contending,
family, friend,
Form:
Narrative
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR HEARING OUR CRY
...September 21 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Joel 1-3 Key Verse – Joel 1:19 O LORD, to thee will I cry: for the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and the flame hath ......
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Beata Agustin
Categories:
contending,
bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form:
Alliteration
Jeremiah chapter thirty five k j v
...The Lord is faithfull.! Thesselonians ch 3 v 3-5 Jerimiah in the midst of the rebbelious people, had taken Note of a sobdrly clad 'new group to his awareness' he made Enquiry at the market stal......
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Joe Maverick
Categories:
contending,
appreciation, education, endurance,
Form:
Narrative
I Exist
...I Exist. What if one day you woke up only to discover your whole life was a dream?, You were never really here. Is it the feeling of being ignored? The feeling that my self esteem might have be......
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Etomida Kayla
Categories:
contending,
life, poetry,
Form:
Free verse
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