Escapism For the readers
...Escapism – For the readers.
(A lone voice whispers)
Hey you,
Reading this
From way beyond the reach
Of the Great Abyss
I, Thomas, have a question or two
Would you blindly follow ...
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Categories:
eternal city, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Escapism for the readers
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(A lone voice whispers)
Within this deep clearing, a mystical sanctuary surrounded by the long trees of Time's perpetual symphonies, we meet.
Within this clearing, sheltered from Stor...
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Categories:
eternal city, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Urbana
...Sin City
Ancient City
Hidden City
City Underground
Windy City
Second City
White City
New City
City of Tomorrow
Waking City
Vanishing City
Eternal City
City of God
July 22, 202...
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Categories:
eternal city, city, community, people, urban,
Form: Free verse
Tomb
...Ancient tomb where a lady does repose
Guarded always by her most faithful friends
Sarcophagus carved with eternal rose
Always safe forever they will defend.
This tomb completely lost to...
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Categories:
eternal city, endurance, flower, obituary, rose,
Form: Sonnet
Lord God, You Are My Oblation Appraiser
...August 15 Relationship to God Bible Meditations Based on Ezekiel 45-48
Key Verse – Ezekiel 45:1 Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto ...
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Categories:
eternal city, blessing, christian, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
I Yearn For Rome
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"Take Me There Contest, Judged 01/21/2023/ NA"
I yearn to visit the eternal city of Rome,
St. Peter's Basilica with its tall dome;
oh, love the beautiful gilt and art,
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Categories:
eternal city, travel,
Form: Rhyme
Undying Passion
...Eternal city where
Mere mortals bravely tread
Inhaling rarefied atmosphere
That still evokes Renaissance passion
Caravaggio's art speaks from his paintings
While our verbal discourse ...
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Categories:
eternal city, art, passion,
Form: Free verse
Seeking Where God Dwells
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Psalm 137
1. By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, also we wept at our
remembrance of Zion.
2. On the willows, in the midst thereof, we hung up our lyres."
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Categories:
eternal city, faith, song,
Form: Bio
The Great Eternal City
...High up in the heavens, sits a lovely peaceful place.
Your faith and good deeds will take you there, in the afterlife.
The city n the clouds, its name is Shambhala....
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Categories:
eternal city, appreciation, faith, happiness, heaven,
Form: Sijo
My Heaven
...When my days on earth come to their eternal end,
I wish to find myself at heaven's gate;
ever to spend,
if this my fate.
And in t...
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Categories:
eternal city, heaven,
Form: Rhyme
Al Quds the Eternal Capital of Palestine
...Loud your voice high,
And repeat after me,
Al Quds! Jerusalem!
Nay Urshalim,
It’s free but not for sale or hire!
Al Quds, capital of all Palestine
From north to south,
From east to west,
Th...
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Categories:
eternal city, america, discrimination, history, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
Making Reservations
...My fellow humans, did you know that the eternal city was so huge? "Why, of course", you say with a smily face, "Everybody knows that"....
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Categories:
eternal city, bible, christian, faith, heaven,
Form: Prose Poetry
In Love With My Jesus
...Roses are red, violets are blue
I am still in love you my sweet Jesus
The sun may never rise again
The moon may never shine in full
The sky may spit the stars
To the spinning earth
The ocean ma...
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Categories:
eternal city, dedication, devotion,
Form: ABC
The Yellow and the Red
...Two colors stand on Capitoline Hill
- the gold, the purple of the Roman era -
flag that recalls the ancient pomp
but nowadays the Yellow is for the sun
shining on the beauty of the seven hills
t...
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Categories:
eternal city, allegory,
Form: I do not know?
The City's Breath
...As corporate execs rub their hands together
In greedy glee on seats of plush leather
The man on the street smells the breath of the city
Whilst the man in the tower thinks himself quite witty
As ...
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Categories:
eternal city, change, city, irony, poverty,
Form: Rhyme
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