SMALL RECALLS
...Each morning You lift Your gleaming golden crown
And awaken me with a divine and pristine light.
So now I thank You Lord for allowing me around,
Relaxing in Your comfort for this long night.
You ...
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Categories:
esteems, happiness, love, parents, remember,
Form: Quatrain
Shackled Butterfly
...Finally, I’ve escaped the chaos of life,
I’ve been anxiously waiting for this day to arrive.
Then you returned and disturbed my tranquil tune.
You are bringing chaos where I once silenced t...
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Categories:
esteems, betrayal, confidence, deep, freedom,
Form: Verse
CONFIDENCE IN GOD
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"Know your value. Confidence breeds success. Act like the person you want to become, and people will start seeing you as that person." Mark M. Ford
My confidence* is anchored upon the s...
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Categories:
esteems, blessing, christian, confidence, faith,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
The Song Of A Poet
...It is a poet who sings
It's a writer who tells
His stories.
It is an author who expresses himself
He is a speaker of the highest esteems
Who review the sad memoirs.
He is a brave man who ex...
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Categories:
esteems, bullying, farewell, funeral, love,
Form: Free verse
Sipping Coffee
...“God within me is the enjoyer of the aroma
As also this dopamine boosting flavour I taste
I surrender all pleasures to the dweller of my heart
Breath by breath thus that my soul presence...
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Categories:
esteems, abuse,
Form: Free verse
Tarts Ode a L'Amour
...Thy arms are opened
to embrace you
to hear them sing
ah-song of love and peace
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Categories:
esteems, business, desire, food, health,
Form: Ballade
Over There
...I sit here with sweat dripping from my face wondering what is going on over there; the bell is tolling way over yonder another young man has gone under, big boots and big hats and long guns with hidd...
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Categories:
esteems, america, bereavement, betrayal, body,
Form: Narrative
King Creole
...In nineteen thirty five, in the eighth of January
His kingship first saw light in Tupelo, Mississippi
Under the Capricorn, there he met the sun shining
The rising Sagittarius graced the light o...
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Categories:
esteems, appreciation, history,
Form: Rhyme
A Young Body In An Old Soul
...I turn on the news, when I watch TV
I get angry about the I see
House prices up
And the our self esteems down
Statues being vandalized in most our towns
Well I guess Im a cut from a differen...
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Categories:
esteems, america, anger, angst, anxiety,
Form: Lyric
The King
...Men rise and fall and go astray,
but there are those whose name would stay,
they might be gone but still live
in the hearts of those who believe.
Like a warrior, brave and mighty,
his legen...
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Categories:
esteems, hero,
Form: Metrical Tale
Sentimental Song On My Paternal Home
...Could I ever forget you my little paternal home?
Your reminiscence haunts me however far I might roam.
That mysterious nook wherein my mother gave me birth,
That treasure-chamber, where there ne...
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Categories:
esteems, home,
Form: Couplet
Kin To the King
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Zephaniah 3:17 KJV The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save, he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.
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Categories:
esteems, blessing, god, inspirational,
Form: Free verse
The Amourette Autopsy
...The Amourette Autopsy
In vesper’s curt caress there seems no bind
To daylight’s brim or morning’s dire decree-
Your vertigo embrace confounded vows,
Within a steel wheeled cauldron we stir...
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Categories:
esteems, addiction, bereavement, dark, death,
Form: Blank verse
My Thanksgiving
...Bestowed with gift of life midst well-being’s opulence
freely breathing-in oxygen at its purest
along optimization of functional bodily senses
indeed experiencing goodness and grace, great...
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Categories:
esteems, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Free verse
The Right Side of Tomorrow
...Some men are rich with a promise,
to others—millions are never enough
Fortune esteems what your vision can dream,
contentment elusive as such
(Villanova Pennsylvania: September, 2020)...
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Categories:
esteems, rainbow,
Form: Rhyme
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