The Gist
...A macrocosm lucid
gem mocks trainees
and their ignorance
-jalousies-American
counseled coequals
...French innovators
to state their belief,
it ridicules directly
it was smoked o'er,
gotten t...
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Categories:
counseled, analogy,
Form: Light Verse
PRAISE BE TO GOD FOR CALLING US IN RIGHTEOUSNESS
...August 5 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Isaiah 42-45
Key Verse – Isaiah 42:6 I the LORD have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give the...
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Categories:
counseled, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration
A Rage at air
...A rage at air
Poem
Lionel Derbyshire
A rage at air ..
The fly, the sparrow, the ostrich in air collision goes ..
Why all the rage ..
Fly asked the sparrow
Your temper is full of bad anger
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Categories:
counseled, africa, anger, bird, conflict,
Form: Free verse
LEGEND THAT'S COMMENDABLE THROUGH PARENTS' LEGACY
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Gracious fortress of caring fortitude
Guarding by their compassion’s latitude
Governing to soar through faith’s latitude
Guiding with attitude of gratitude…
God blest our parents’ love-...
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Categories:
counseled, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Epic
Mixing Politics and Religion
...My grandfather
seemed wise with years
walking his rural spiritual path
in a relentlessly white
Christian dualistic church
dividing sinful nature
from sacred spirit.
He counseled:
Do not mix...
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Categories:
counseled, christian, grandfather, health, integrity,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Granny's Love
...GRANNY'S LOVE:
On every matter, she keeps me counseled,
So that any wrong plans would be cancelled.
When I'm down, she gets me revived,
And by her love, I strongly get survived.
Nurtured me f...
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Categories:
counseled, grandmother, happiness, inspirational love,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Managing My Sorrow
...Please don’t tell me your sad tale of woe
When I am deeply hurting inside,
Trying my best to not let anyone know
I am struggling to maintain my pride.
Courageously, I am following m...
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Categories:
counseled, care, depression, mental illness,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Childhood Naughtiness
...Childhood naughtiness midst innocence-glow…
my special son exudes such with glad show
unmindful of “Mother’s Dos and Don’ts” blow
in his sign language, “Yes, I can follow”
asserted by pre...
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Categories:
counseled, appreciation, blessing, cheer up,
Form: Rhyme
Old Pharaoh - 2 of 2
...For Pharaoh still exalts himself and thinks he’s in control,
But if he won’t release my folk, he’ll pay a heavy toll.
Tomorrow I will bring down hail like Egypt’s never seen,
On plants and trees a...
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Categories:
counseled, bible,
Form: Ballad
The Dog Is Talking
...the numbers were in and it didn't look pretty
you people surrender your minds so easily
they dumb you down and you know it
they dumb you down and you let them
but it wasn’t coercion either
basic...
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Categories:
counseled, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
My Halloween Kitty
...My Halloween Kitty (written 10/11/2020) free verse
I had a familiar named Callie
She was born on Halloween.
Feral siblings abandoned at my door.
I took the whole litter to the SPCA.
They neu...
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Categories:
counseled, birthday, cat, death, feelings,
Form: Ode
My Friend Hope
...I have a friend whose name is HOPE, who years ago lost his way.
Not only had he disappeared physically, but he was also going astray. ...
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Categories:
counseled, america, hope,
Form: Narrative
A Wind Storm On My Beach
...Life is a beach but not too sunny when cancer comes along.
The day it came to me, I never could imagine the obnoxious waves
that would come rolling onto the beach I so enjoyed.
With tests, sur...
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Categories:
counseled, cancer,
Form: Free verse
God Saw a Prize
...My world a chasm of utter darkness
Dreariness enveloped me like a cloud
Bound by chains in an abandoned fortress
Tormented body - a field freshly plowed
Accomplishments ignored; voice never hear...
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Categories:
counseled, bullying, evil, feelings, god,
Form: Free verse
Bloody Oriskany, Part I
...In seventeen seventy-seven,
amidst the deep summer’s August heat,
Barry St. Leger, loyalist milita,
and the Iroquois walked on sore feet.
Their mission was clear: move down the Mohawk,
meet Bu...
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Categories:
counseled, america, conflict, freedom, hero,
Form: Narrative
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