Persuaded
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During the worst storms, when the heart mourns and warns, there comes a hope for more, hope for love that is beyond our knowing, love that is overflowing, love that is soundlessly growing
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Categories:
dissuaded, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
Belief
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In your eyes, reflected to me
are memories of beautiful,
trembling pieces of laughing hope
still colors of grace and belief
feelings pouring from the shadows
never just make believe
a...
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Categories:
dissuaded, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
little Brown
...plain peahens step aside as the peacocks strut into the barnyard
they do a little mating dance, preening, showing off, being male
if I had those beautiful feathers, I would be jazzier than any of t...
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Categories:
dissuaded, bird,
Form: Free verse
My New Puppy Beau Takes Care of the Problem
...My medicine is getting me down
I feel depressed
Why don’t you take two? Someone suggests
As if that ever works
Someone does not know; he does not even go to a doctor.
A golden retriever puppy,...
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Categories:
dissuaded, dog,
Form: Narrative
Breaking Hearts
...Grief tears down the walls,
Built by scarred hearts,
Convincing walls, sturdy like the oak –
But not nearly as resilient when anguish trembles
In hearts who have never known the dark,
The soundl...
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Categories:
dissuaded, blessing, christian, death, grief,
Form: Free verse
Lucinda is Out of Her Mind
...She is out of her mind her relatives said.
They wanted her embalmed, cremated or dead.
Lucinda had her wits and was not to be dissuaded.
She gave them all the boot, they were downgraded.
She ha...
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Categories:
dissuaded, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
A Moment
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Only for a moment,
Does the wind blow in the frosty fragments,
Like stories woven through the gales,
Erasing the night, the pines
With a beautiful cloak of peace,
Silent as the sound of gra...
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Categories:
dissuaded, appreciation, light, muse, surreal,
Form: Free verse
Clarity
...I know what’s true –
I won’t be dissuaded
I have my view
And it can’t be degraded
I won’t allow myself to be
The target of a witch hunt
The sword that cuts,
It cuts both ways
From the tim...
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Categories:
dissuaded, education, inspiration, integrity, language,
Form: Political Verse
Overjoyed SHM
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This love, more than a feeling, it’s twinkling
Like the purple blue on a mountain’s hue
Or lightest rain, trembling with truth, sprinkling
My heart with gentle dreams, yearnings ensu...
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Categories:
dissuaded, appreciation, feelings, hope, joy,
Form: Sonnet
Just Like a Mighty Wind God Came and Took My Shame and Sins Away-
...Just like a mighty, mighty wind My God
Came and took my shame and sins away
So positively alluring;
This unfolding;
Jesus is coming;
Are you ready, (yes I'm ready)
Hearts wide open;
Choic...
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Categories:
dissuaded, analogy, appreciation, desire, forgiveness,
Form: Lyric
Red Sky
...Did you see My 'Red Sky' at morning?
Listen to the Lord's stern warning!
Is it loving to sidestep My truth,
To judge My words as uncouth?
To bow to the oppressor's greed,
For wont of materia...
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Categories:
dissuaded, america, bible, christian, faith,
Form: Rhyme
Wilderness of Loneliness
...Wilderness Of Loneliness
Light at the End
As failure yielded tears the will casts evil and the soul mended
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Categories:
dissuaded, anger, endurance, hope, lost
Form: Rhyme
Mirror Mirror
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Once I wouldn’t dare to be seen
Without mascara and liner
Never doubting that my dreams
Were founded on these little things
Often I chose to just stay home
When I hadn’t showered
O...
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Categories:
dissuaded, beautiful, fashion, humorous, mirror,
Form: Free verse
Mystery Woman Under That Hat
...Who is under that hat we wondered as she disembarked.
I had never seen such a contraption that was so not easily parked.
It was feathered and fluffed, with flounces that said United Nation.
Had a...
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Categories:
dissuaded, woman,
Form: Rhyme
No One Would Miss You
...The house is most welcoming, she said.
It is high on the hill, don’t let that scare you.
I thought this a curious turn of phrase.
But I was not dissuaded, for she was persuasive.
My mother and ...
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Categories:
dissuaded, feelings, horror, house,
Form: Narrative
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