Amen!
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Seek – the love, the grace, the flow
Miracles sought by the heart, the soul
those who know He is the music
that plays light into the ones who know
life isn’t lived until it is lived for...
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Categories:
convicts, appreciation, blessing, christian, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
It's Good To Be Bible Right
....It's Good To Be Bible Right
It's good to be Bible right,
In these days and times,
With thought of doing God's will,
Afresh in our minds.
We will all need the Bible,
To examine our...
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Categories:
convicts, christian, faith, gospel, inspiration,
Form: Rhyme
We are Spiritual Convicts Serving a Life Sentence
...We're criminals from heaven, committing spiritual crime.
Disobeying the Creator with our body and mind.
His law was made plain to us right from the start.
Still if we allow Him, he'll write it on ...
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Categories:
convicts, abuse, addiction, bible, hate,
Form: Rhyme
The Juggernaut
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(A lone voice whispers)
Did no one tell you that true
Magic exists
Just hidden somewhere deep
In most societies
Sought after by convicts of the mundane
Profane addicts, who cry out i...
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Categories:
convicts, poets,
Form: Rhyme
We are all just a bunch of mental convicts
...Whether you're in a prison,
Or a hospital bed confined.
Yours might just be a 9 to 5,
We all are still doing time.
Our conscience is our jury,
Declaring right and wrong.
Our thoughts the Judge ...
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Categories:
convicts, 10th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Helene, the afterglow
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Shouting, over the sounds of rain, feelings
more commanding than the season’s pain
erasing the hope from hearts, but who’s to blame
for the night’s lure in pieces of yesterdays
wondering,...
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Categories:
convicts, death, faith, horror, loss,
Form: Free verse
A good day to contemplate Australia wide' they shall celebrate
...Soon will dawn Australia day.' A date on the calender some
Pages away..Its the first poem from me, on this holiday
In the past I was not one (for its celebration lets say?) Yet
Decades have sifted...
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Categories:
convicts, appreciation, celebration, character, courage,
Form: Free verse
Sincerely yours Mary Wade
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I nearly hanged, it was my fate
In seventeen eighty nine
I had stolen an old fur tippet
And claimed that it was mine
They put me into prison
Then sent me to be tried
The verdict came...
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Categories:
convicts, history,
Form: Rhyme
Convict Mentality
...A convict Mentality/
Is common sense to someone/
But, uncomprehensible to most/
People get it twisted/
They think an inmate and convict/
Are the same/
But they are not/
Two worlds apart/
An i...
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Categories:
convicts, character, courage, crazy, dark,
Form: Free verse
In the Shadow of Sunlight
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Lost in thought, on the edge of a creek bank,
where the heart is caught between the songs
spun by dandelion seeds, blowing softly,
and whispering winds, gifted with wonders…
gentle ...
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Categories:
convicts, appreciation, blessing, christian, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
Anti-Power
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The strong are always to blame for the powerless:
The rulers come up with the best of intent
It doesn’t take efforts to overpower us
Having police and stern judges at hand
Once deemed as the vi...
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Categories:
convicts, philosophy, political,
Form: Rhyme
Rough Draft part2
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Soak in the palmolive snake oil tonic.
The cool stalk of my ebonics on hydroponics.
Get stuck in the matrix of my convicts, of hooker phonics.
Get high off of my knock off water on the br...
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Categories:
convicts, art,
Form: Lyric
Do You Remember Too
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Butterfly bless dances from flower to flower,
sipping nectar with its slender proboscis imitating Bacchus with prospectus,
direct to us.
Streaks in the open air with flagrant color,
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Categories:
convicts, art,
Form: Ballad
God's word is alive
...God's word, a sword of truth, piercing the soul
Alive and active, it cuts to the goal
It judges the thoughts, and attitudes of the heart
A discerner of intentions, it sets apart
Sharper than an...
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Categories:
convicts, angel, bible, christian,
Form: Couplet
Secrets
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Psalm 44:21 – (KJV) Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Inside, where I hide
All my thoughts, my best and worst
Prayers are prayed, lifte...
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Categories:
convicts, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
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