Genesis
...When the land was smooth, life brand-new
In Eden, there lived one, then two
Since the Earth's dawn, man walked as youth
Life brand-new, when the land was smooth
In the garden were two sweet blo...
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Categories:
discerns, betrayal, bible, corruption, creation,
Form: Quatrain
The World is Bleeding
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The World is Bleeding
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Categories:
discerns, death, feelings, judgement, violence,
Form: Rhyme
FAITH IN GOD WHO IS OUR JUDGE
...June 18 Faith in God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 26-31
Key Verse – Psalms 26:1 Judge me, O LORD; for I have walked in mine integrity: I have trusted also in the LORD; therefore I shall...
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Categories:
discerns, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Quatrain
Self-esteem Attributes
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This is how one of my friends describes
my character attributes.
In many blood-shot blazing eyes he sees
they seethe inside in the inferno of anger,
throw out raging words from the venomou...
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Categories:
discerns, analogy, character, self,
Form: Ode
Runner
...He knows he has to run; it’s imperative.
He sprints down a trail,
passing tall pines on both sides.
His eyes dart everywhere around himself
as he surveys every large rock or bush
that he goes d...
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Categories:
discerns, race,
Form: Narrative
Venal Treacle
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Written: April 21, 2025, for contest sponsored by Brian Strand
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Eat
this
red
fruit
my
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Categories:
discerns, appreciation, betrayal,
Form: Shape
In Grace Thereof
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In Grace Thereof
Like the babbling brook
The spirit yearns
Of quiet moments
The heart discerns
To deny the flesh
And feed thy soul
To hear the voice
Still and small
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Categories:
discerns, beautiful, beauty, giving, god,
Form: Lyric
FONDLY REMEMBER SHE'S GONE-
...Fondly the memories dissipated;
Nothing left but lost discerns and heartache;
Memories such one forgotten hated;
Gross bonding ne’ver more relates;
Away from sight darken light shuns low shines;
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Categories:
discerns, absence, bereavement, how i
Form: Elegy
CESSATION
...CESSATION
That pain is like treading on bottle tops
Or stumbling into some hidden caltrops
Suddenly, as when some lightbulb pops
The welcome relief when it finally stops
Like making big gains ...
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Categories:
discerns, fate, future,
Form: Rhyme
Hidden Love
...Hidden Love
In the depths of my heart, a star hides,
The woman who crosses me, a whisper of thoughts in secrecy,
Though in silence, my soul belongs to her,
She feels my love, like a ray of sunshi...
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Categories:
discerns, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Fractals of Freedom: Virtues in a Void
...Absurdity, chaos,
strife:
The poet chooses
virtuous reality.
Sisyphus, a
titanic wave of metamorphosis, waiting, salted nausea:
The thinker roughed by sand
a solitary tree in a barren de...
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Categories:
discerns, philosophy, psychological,
Form: Free verse
In the cathedral of silence, beneath the vaults of stars and shadows
...In the cathedral of silence, beneath the vaults of stars and shadows,
A man opens his soul like an ancient parchment in the hands of a divine scribe.
His words are forgotten runes, whispers of a wo...
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Categories:
discerns, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
MY LONELINESS
...You are the flame that warms my sadness, you are the passion that regenerates my broken soul.
In your heart lies endless love, a gentle emotion full of compassion.
To heal my wounds, I discovered...
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Categories:
discerns, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Perpetual
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“I am but a speck of dust here in this universe that may be blown away by a whiff of breath, but I know, I am priceless in the eyes of God and I wait for a life of perpetual bliss that surmounts th...
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Categories:
discerns, joy, life, paradise, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
CREATIVITY-PARTICIPATION tenet 4x4
...PARTICIPATION
Will my verse reach your ear
can your eye stay the course
listening,then writing my verse I awake ,
content until the next time,
the chords at my finger tips drift
b...
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Categories:
discerns, education, poetry,
Form: Didactic
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