FACES OF BETRAYAL
...Some hand you smiles dipped in napalm,
Then turn to poison the second you drop your guard.
Humans, Moral plastic caught in flame,
Deals of décor, rotting behind the facade.
Draw your lines, don’t...
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Categories:
degrades, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Remnant
...As we expand
populations increasing
resources depleted
what will sutain us?
As wealth is held
controlled by the few
with so many deprived
when will there be justice?
As power is polarised...
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Categories:
degrades, angst, conflict, destiny, fate,
Form: Didactic
The Axe Boasts Not
...The axe boasts not, nor lets arrogance reign.
By whose hand did buds sprout forth from Aaron’s rod?
Balaam kept blessing God’s people, was all this in vain?
Can man know the might and mind ...
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Categories:
degrades, 11th grade, angst, pride,
Form: Rondeau Redouble
Art As Activism II
...*Henry Ford developed plastic from soybeans for cars. It degrades!
Art As Activism II
Imagine no longer the sounds of seagulls squawking
or splashing through...
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Categories:
degrades, earth, environment, pollution, youth,
Form: Free verse
Ledger of Love: PART I
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Ledger of Love
In the dim-lit chambers of the Victorian home,
Resides a wife, her heart a silent tome.
Once, love’s flame burned bright within her breast,
But now a thin whisp, a ghost...
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Categories:
degrades, confusion, desire, heartbreak, longing,
Form: Narrative
final account
...before life begins
we accrue fictional sins
so guilt always wins
lest any deem themselves free
to alter reality
dollars and distance
do not measure existence
despite persistence
constant de...
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Categories:
degrades, culture, death, judgement, life,
Form: Tanka
Diary of an Empty Day
...From “I love you” to a habit
And old habit melts away
Till you doubt if you had it
Ever since that summer day
Like green leaves turn gold and brown
To be scattered everywhere
So are we, when ...
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Categories:
degrades, blessing, day, deep, love,
Form: Rhyme
LORD GOD, YOU ARE MY READY EXHORTER
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November 27 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on 1Thessalonians 4-5
Key Verse– 1Thessalonians 4:1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that ...
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Categories:
degrades, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Alexandria, Part Ii
...He didn’t explain much more at that time,
Alexandra couldn’t exactly for him,
she was in a box, growing quite slowly,
with each new component bringing new vim,
more and more senses were installed...
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Categories:
degrades, confusion, dark, father, future,
Form: Narrative
Happiness Promenades
...Uncovering the earth, as the snow finally fades
Sunny days; bringing, aesthetically soothing jades
Towns spring to life, with congruent daily parades
Simply enjoying life, in its moments a...
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Categories:
degrades, america, happiness, summer,
Form: Monorhyme
Vote and Kill
...VOTE AND KILL
ON ELECTION DAY
History errs, time and again
Life’s mistakes oft glare, shine.
Culture degrades, now and then,
The best, at times, is not fine!
Such it is with political ele...
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Categories:
degrades, political,
Form: Rhyme
Docket Time
...Docket Time
There is always something more on the cards
You think you have a full house and your enemy
Does something unexpected from his bad script
Written by amateurs and paid for by lunatics
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Categories:
degrades, abuse, integrity, success,
Form: Free verse
Degradation
...Life revolts against
the fundamental law of Nature
for all things to inevitably degrade
to maximum disorder, entropy
with minimum free energy.
Life builds structure and order
against the tre...
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Categories:
degrades, life,
Form: Free verse
They Should Teach Our Children
...Certain school boards in some states are facing angry parents. Those parents are angry with the radical left wing progressive lies to their own children. There are parents in Virginia pulling their s...
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Categories:
degrades, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Man Is Delusional
...Man is delusional.
In each dumb thing
Does he see, for a god
What's worth finding.
In elephant, snake
And goat-like Pan.
The dignity of worship
Degrades he, Man.
Bows to the morning
One,...
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Categories:
degrades, god, morning,
Form: Rhyme
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