THE MIST OF PRIDE
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Can you ever be pleased, mankind?
Everything we try, yet we're met with night.
We're nerds, unaware of the truth's light,
When all that pleases you lies in deceitful sight.
"Do not be conform...
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Categories:
displeases, anti bullying, anxiety, desire,
Form: Spoken Word
My Marriage In Danger - Away In A Manger Parody
...My marriage; in danger
No wife in my bed
She slept with two geezers
In our cattle shed
I did suspect one guy
Of making her stray
She does what she pleases
Much to my dismay
The p...
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Categories:
displeases, humorous, marriage, parody, wife,
Form: Rhyme
Such a Time as This
...[The Lord]
"Why do you throw up your hands at Me?
Turn around and take what I give you!"
[The Defeated]
"These people stubbornly refuse your grace.
Their brazen-faces threaten violence.
They ...
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Categories:
displeases, bible, christian, conflict, corruption,
Form: Free verse
An Apology From God
...Dear God, my love for you flickers in wavering shadows,
Caught between the whispers of evening prayers
And the intoxicating allure of liquor’s path.
I am well aware that this habit I cling to disp...
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Categories:
displeases, allah, america, atheist, bible,
Form: Blank verse
My God, Thank You For Avenging Me
...October 6 Scripture Meditations Based on Luke 18-19
Key Verse – Luke 18:7 And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?
MY ...
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Categories:
displeases, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Beware the Banning of Books and Speech
...I’m not sure what’s happening in this country…sometimes I think it’s being overrun by fools…in some states they’re banning books…in my state, Florida, they’re banning talking about gender and sexuali...
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Categories:
displeases, freedom,
Form: Rhyme
They'Ve Been Sleepin'
...8/18/21
This place is no 'Garden of Eden!'
For now heart still beatin'
Yet bleedin'
Struggling to find the meanin'
And to make the best of 'freedom'
For many seasons
Battling with my own d...
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Categories:
displeases, addiction, dark, deep, life,
Form: Rhyme
Furrocious
...My cat’s become so critical
of the pieces that I write
he kneads to express his opinion
and he always thinks he’s right.
He twitches his ear-itation
if I don't write in Senryus.
If what I wri...
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Categories:
displeases, 11th grade, cat, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Woman In Training
...They look pretty unassuming, mild, bland even the young boy said.
His father looked at his grandfather; they shared a silent laugh.
Tell us how unassuming they are after you grow up and cross one o...
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Categories:
displeases, 12th grade, funny, hilarious,
Form: Free verse
The Good Mother
...I beheld an altar of sacrifice,
Where selfless offerings are made,
Tears flow like blood,
And ambition is pinned like a dart.
The good mother offers herself,
And seal the blessing upon her chi...
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Categories:
displeases, appreciation, birthday, care, caregiving,
Form: Free verse
Schooled In Hard Knock Sufferance
...Schooled in hard knock sufferance... -
soulful scribe matt er fact - seeks solemn sanctuary
Despite always pledging
allegiance to the flag
academic performance traced, narrated,
graphed... unf...
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Categories:
displeases, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Personification
Greed
...Author Dana Redricks
July 18, 2019
People don't show their appreciation and quick to point out our flaws. I often think of God and what he must sometimes think of us. We murmur and complain overl...
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Categories:
displeases, betrayal, christian, deep, god,
Form: Free verse
Forgive Me
...For my disobedience that displeases Your heart…
…I apologize; as well as for my stubbornness of arrogance-dart
Showing my defiance against Your plans, always right from the start…
Lord, fo...
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Categories:
displeases, character, christian, devotion, faith,
Form: Kyrielle
O Courage-
...This time your beautiful
Your soul belongs to God
Lively, old humanity calmly desire a misty, stormy stream
O, courage!
Ravishes the dawns plight
Redeeming fleeting nights
Beautiful...
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Categories:
displeases, analogy, appreciation, destiny, forgiveness,
Form: Free verse
Betrayal - Fickle Death's Sickle
...BETRAYAL - FICKLE DEATH'S SICKLE
Life is short, death is sure,
Much is better left unsaid
In this painful life we endure
Many thorns we may h...
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Categories:
displeases, betrayal, death,
Form: Rhyme
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