Self and Absolute Self - God
...Our journey is long, so be strong,
our resolve firmed by the Om gong,
that thus thinning out the ego,
divine aligned we do no wrong.
Let love laced be the seeds we sow,
seeing God in our fierc...
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Categories:
firmed, spiritual,
Form: Rubaiyat
Accidental love
...I once had a beautiful life or so I thought, a beautiful, perfect lady or so I imagined, for me she was my world, for her it was my wealth or nothing, how contrasting these two weighing scales were....
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Categories:
firmed, anger, art, baptism, beautiful,
Form: Free verse
Ignite
...Take a look
Read me like a book
Fill my brown pages
If you find them empty
Write in me feel at ease
Make me happy sad good bad
I’m a mirror of your imagination
Like an Etch a Sketch
I’m eas...
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Categories:
firmed, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Gist
...A macrocosm lucid
gem mocks trainees
and their ignorance
-jalousies-American
counseled coequals
...French innovators
to state their belief,
it ridicules directly
it was smoked o'er,
gotten t...
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Categories:
firmed, analogy,
Form: Light Verse
The Tip
...
At the end
of the river's exhausted reach
where swamp firmed
into solid ground, there was a place
the locals used as a tip.
Broken, worn out stuff
from clean outs, hoarded
household effects...
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Categories:
firmed, childhood, loss, nostalgia,
Form: Free verse
My Guitar - First Place Contest Winner
...A Brian Strand Premiere No 1224 Poetry Contest, Sponsored by: Brian Strand
Written: June 20, 2023
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Zealous...
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Categories:
firmed, analogy, appreciation, music,
Form: Shape
Nostalgic Groans
...Once I remember, I was pupil a decade behind
Nada flowing in my gist,but parent rememberance
Who toured, Pearls me a day and infinity
To be onto twinkle today's milieu
Oh a nibble was a villager ...
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Categories:
firmed, anger, crazy, destiny,
Form: Free verse
Motor Home News and Blues
...An abode you can drive down a road is a trip,
but the learning curve’s steep. It’s a help to be rich,
strong, and good with your hands (for things often go wrong
that you will not expect). All sup...
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Categories:
firmed, faith, journey, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Erotic Games
...Players in the stadium
Patient as waiting soldiers
Seek stirring to signify
Attack artillery emboldened
Provisions are messages
Loaded with fresh opening
Responses rapidly fired
Lonely's ea...
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Categories:
firmed, cool, metaphor,
Form: Rhyme
Sable Poetic Leakings
...assiduous
spiritual voices
whisper veracious words:
faith tested
is faith strengthen…
firmed like tested muscles…
flexing mind
expands and joyful spirits
dance as mental quills
ink blood of ...
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Categories:
firmed, analogy, destiny, faith, imagery,
Form: Free verse
Unto To Us a Child Is Born Collections Part One
...Oh unto to us a child is born!
Unto to us a child was given!
This special child came from
God the Father in heaven's
lofty heights above. All because
of God's redeeming love. *
Oh Christ the ...
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Categories:
firmed, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Lyric
Hardwork Pays Off
...THEY LAUGHED, HOW HE WORKED HARD ALL NIGHT AND DAY,
THEY TEASED AND TAUNTED HIM ALL LONG, BUT HE COULDN'T SAY.
A PERSON WHO IS BOUND TO DO SOMETHING HAS 3 THINGS ON HIS LIPS,
SILENCE. SERIOUSNESS ...
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Categories:
firmed, addiction, appreciation, career, deep,
Form: Free verse
As S Er Ting
...she wrote
that she
confirmed me
meaning her
flight
i knew
because
we con
firmed
each
other
it seems
dinosaur
ages ago
before
the supposed
comet hit
wiping out
exsistance
...
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Categories:
firmed, muse,
Form: I do not know?
Nature's Umbrella
...There it stood
in its bright
off-white shape;
head held in perfection
by its firmed neck.
A proud mushroom,
signaling the transition
of summer into fall.
Beneath its shade,
little black ...
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Categories:
firmed, 6th grade, 7th grade,
Form: Prose Poetry
No To Xenophobia
...HEAL THY SELF O WOUNDED AFRICA
(no to XENOPHOBIA).
Wake up a voice shouted
You slept like a pregnant woman
While the drum beat of my assagil sounds like trumpet
Wit...
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Categories:
firmed, africa, betrayal, conflict, corruption,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
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