Craftmanship Poems

Premium MemberSuper Soupers

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Super Soupers wrangle rhymes
 into verses quite sublime
Taming wild-eyed metaphors
 into iambic strophes gal...
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Categories: craftmanship, poetry, poets,
Form: Couplet

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD WHO GRANTS US WISDOM

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May 10 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on 2Chronicles 1-4 

Key Verse – 2 Chronicles 1:11-12 And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, w...
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Categories: craftmanship, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration


Premium MemberLEGEND 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: craftmanship, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Epic

Premium Member The Soul The Sea of the Open Sea

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 Row row row your boat gently down the  stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily life Is but a dream... So
Have you ever felt this theme a dream
soaring beyond the skies the hue is blue mist wit...
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Categories: craftmanship, anxiety, appreciation, blessing, care,
Form: Free verse

How Staggering Is His Love For Us

...This world of different social cultures of interest and perpetual crucial competition is in a boiling state of cruelty and antipathy.

After prayer and during the hours of reflecting, it occurs to ...
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Categories: craftmanship, religious,
Form: Free verse


Premium MemberVessel of Divine Craftmanship

...My God, make me the vessel* You want me to be
marked by divine craftsmanship… not
bearing grandeur of self-exalting potter the
aim is to become finest, full-fledged first…

Help me, Lord...
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Categories: craftmanship, character, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberGreatest Generation

...Being privileged to have known scores of
Americans known as 'the greatest generation',
I attest to the reality of their greatness.

Herein, greatness will not reference those who went
off to war...
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Categories: craftmanship, america, family,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberNo Matter What

...Row row row your boat gently down the stream
Merrily merrily merrily merrily life Is but a dream... soaring beyond the skies the hue shadowed glows blue mist with green fields loving the stars above...
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Categories: craftmanship, anxiety, appreciation, beauty, desire,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberReverse Midas Touch

...Like Rip Van Winkle, she confronted a new world;
Hers was one of commonplace and acceptability,
not exceptional nor eager for excellence.

Remember when bacon packs were a pound,
and diesel was ...
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Categories: craftmanship, identity, integrity,
Form: Verse

Premium MemberSpiritual Mahjong Your Move Lord

...Spiritual Mahjong
Your Move Lord

Is there a God?
A benevolent entity.
An eternal presence presiding over me.
A creator, watching and observing.
All knowing.
Is my end determined and conclusi...
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Categories: craftmanship, bible, christian, death, i
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberBeware the Peek Holes

...We were extremely delighted when we picked up the keys to our brand new house and starting at the front door, we made slow anticipative steps desirous of testing the key making sure it was correctly ...
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Categories: craftmanship, dream, family, heartbroken, winter,
Form: Narrative

Premium MemberVenice

...To visit Venice such an event
a dream so often wished to come true
but for one full whole glorious day
this became a living reality to view

Having read about this city so often
surrounded full...
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Categories: craftmanship, holiday, life, summer,
Form: Rhyme

The Power of Imagination

...The land has 
much to teach us 
    Middle Earth 
is a place 
Where evil has been defeated 
The warm hearths 
   of the Shire 
The bravery of 
Gondor's men 
  The marvelous 
craftmanship 
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Categories: craftmanship, dream, fantasy, imagination,
Form: Concrete

Spiders

...A creature as misunderstood by all
What ugly thing could have that many eyes?
That many legs?

But such a magnificent being it is!
Its morning web is homemade craftmanship!
A Crystalline Web of...
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Categories: craftmanship, animals, nature
Form: Free verse

Jealosy and Pain

...my forte and my downfall
elegant thoughts, parsed perfection
effortlessly strung, priceless pearls
tailored, fitted, mitered, alliterated
craftmanship evident to Medieval guilds
perhaps too lite...
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Categories: craftmanship, loss, on writing and
Form: Light Verse

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