Shine On Me
...Shine on me
Showcase me
Embrace me
Encase me
Risk your life to save me
Envelop me
Face-to-face me
Fix your gaze on me
Examine me
Taste every bite of me
Skin-on-skin with me
Lay was...
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Categories:
disparagingly, love, passion, romantic, romantic
Form: Free verse
Duno Brown
...Duno Brown, an old woman.
I was assigned to co-teach Bible School with her.
She had white hair, and walked slowly.
I was twenty-eight. I ran everywhere.
We were instantly laughing about silly thi...
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Categories:
disparagingly, friend, friendship, friendship love,
Form: Bio
Great Expectations
...A pandemic Christian evangelical error
disparagingly contrasts gospel privileged scripture,
root of all-powerful faith,
with inferior and erroneous Eastern religious traditions,
Like Buddhism
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Categories:
disparagingly, analogy, green, health, philosophy,
Form: Political Verse
Under the Red Umbrella
...The dark thick clouds announced the rain,
It was not long before it started pouring down;
Heavy drops of water on cars sounded like a train,
Bare became the streets of the popular town.
No one...
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Categories:
disparagingly, dream,
Form: Rhyme
The Lowly Turnip
...The lowly turnip
Earthy, fleshy
Roots falling from its eyes
Fed to livestock
One of God’s root crops
Yet deemed untasty
By most palates
Carrots and potatoes
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Carrots in...
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Categories:
disparagingly, judgement, silly,
Form: Limerick
Gone and Hopefully Permanently Forgotten
...By Stanley Collymore
Never speak ill of the dead we’re constantly and solemnly
exhorted regardless of who they are or the life that
they freely chose to live, as they’re no longer
around, is th...
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Categories:
disparagingly, funeral, life, woman, life,
Form: Prose Poetry
Reminiscences of a Dinosaur
...REMINISCENCES OF A DINOSAUR
Nothing really changes; each one thinks himself
Slightly better than others of similar type :
“Oh, he’s too fat ; she’s gonna be left on the shelf”. . . . .
I...
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Categories:
disparagingly, funny,
Form: Quatrain