Selected Favorite Old Testament Bible Verses part two
...9) My maids and I will fast likewise. And so I will go to the king,
which is against the law; and if I perish, I perish!" So Mordecai
went his way and did all that Esther commanded h...
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Categories:
foreword, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Narrative
Foreword
...Frightened by what I have written,
Still I move forward past my foreword....
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Categories:
foreword, poetess, word play, words,
Form: Crystalline
Rowing
...My spirit released
set free to fly
seeking in wonder
what I do not know
so long ago
so far from I
when for time
they went down to the sea
bending the back
a smooth strong pull
and ...
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Categories:
foreword, poetry,
Form: Free verse
Murder On The Orient Expressed
...Murder on the Orient Express--just?
Shorter the fuse tighten the screws,
sharper stuns the rushed, drug delays the hushed,
marker trashed refuse, clues confuse.
'Morning after sharp...
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Categories:
foreword, child abuse, death, family,
Form: Lento
Obsession
...I wonder how important are you
if you're being watched over
day and night by tens of pairs of eyes.
Are you a jewel with incomparable value
or are they just dumb to waste time on you?
Wha...
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Categories:
foreword, 10th grade,
Form: Free verse
Her
...i ask you random questions out of the blue because i want to know you.
everything about you.
every piece that makes up your beautiful self.
why do your eyes light up when you see sunflowers?
wh...
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Categories:
foreword, best friend,
Form: Free verse
Hush, Crooned the Night
...Here I sit on this night so still,
not a rustle in the leaves
nor a stirring in the grass.
No whispers intrude; naught but mine.
Ill news after days spent ill,
unwelcome foreword to grief
i...
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Categories:
foreword, death, family, grandmother, grief,
Form: Free verse
Spring - No Bling
...[Foreword: spring in the UK is delightful
But it isn’t all sunshine and roses!]
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’tis a word, oft heard, for March, April, May
The crocus enlivens the woodland ...
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Categories:
foreword, spring,
Form: Sonnet
Cannibal Picnic
...Foreword: we’re all aware of the ’pot ate oh’ and ‘pert arter’ debate... well, in some English accents (including my own) there is a third version: ‘per tay ter’. I lean toward this pronunciation in ...
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Categories:
foreword, food, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Covid Christmas
...(Foreword: don’t know the score elsewhere, but the UK has a rule of six... which is the number of people who can gather as a group. Unless they’ve changed it... again).
My sister, my brother, ...
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Categories:
foreword, christmas, family, humor,
Form: Rhyme
Foreword
...What these chosen poems mean to me
I put down plainly for all readers to see
Others may not think them very much
And in no way their hearts ever touch
For me they brought comfort and pleasure
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Categories:
foreword, anxiety, fear, hope, poems,
Form: Rhyme
The Last Duet
...Foreword: This poem is inspired by F. Chopin's Ballade in G Minor op. 23 and the anime "Your Lie in April". The number are timestamps from a video of that performance so that you can imagine and ...
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Categories:
foreword, deep, goodbye, loss, lost
Form: Free verse
Lost Warrior
...Lost warrior
There is a grave where my heart was once in peace.
It has been used and consumed, taken piece by piece.
Now the hands that want to take my only happiness,
Reach into the black ho...
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Categories:
foreword, dark, death, lost, me,
Form: Bio
Laughing From Last Place
...I feel the spiders touch of silken shirt on skin
Hear the hidden thoughts in words unspoke
I see beyond these eyes
And smell the past, present and foreword
as it lies prone at my feet
just the t...
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Categories:
foreword, poetry,
Form: Free verse
The Block
...Foreword... the sort of daft rubbish I write in a effort to defeat writer’s block. No attempt to make any sense, just to get words on a page/screen. Normally I end up deleting such garbage... but I k...
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Categories:
foreword, nonsense, writing,
Form: Rhyme
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