Outside the Camp
...Outside the camp
In mocking cruelty
They crucified
Their King.
‘Away with him’
They cried,
And thus
Religion triumphed
For another day,
The status quo
Preserved for priests
Impelled by h...
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Categories:
founds, bible, christian, death, freedom,
Form: Blank verse
Ode for a Fortunate Infant
...
Ode for a Fortunate Infant
Newborn:
Smacked and
Screaming —
Hardly more than a new fact,
A statistic
Already forgetting
The crush into Becoming.
This “tabula rasa,”
Kic...
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Categories:
founds, birth, blessing, family, identity,
Form: Ode
of Knowing Thee
...of Knowing Thee
…Of Thee
holding peace…Glory
overlying, fine/
quite sheer radiance
overall/
dimensional
The Omnipotence of Thee
Most Holy I-AM…
nonperiel
— infinite — intimate...
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Categories:
founds, christian, god, inspiration, jesus,
Form: Ode
SOUL HEARTS CRIES--
...Soul heart cries
Verse toward the skies
My heart sees, what it does
Mind thinks thoughts
About founds and loss
My spirit soars rises
My heart sees, what it does
Verse toward the skies
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Categories:
founds, analogy, angst, anxiety, cry,
Form: Light Verse
Black Americans In Shark Houses and Caravans
...Black Americans in shark
houses
And caravans
Imagine how many black
Americans dying
In strong winters as
They can not afford
To build
or buy proper houses.
The American system pushed...
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Categories:
founds, black african american, community,
Form: Free verse
Once Here
...You and I...
We were so similar...
we shared the same mind...
the same spirit..
the same soul...
Like our hearts were friends in a different world from ours...
It was like coming home...
like ...
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Categories:
founds, dedication, emotions, first love,
Form: Free verse
Triune Love
...One is the man whose living in half
Whole can he be with the wavelength above
In blurs, he saw the sacred cryptograph
With faith, he felt everlasting love
Two is the man with divine armor
Thr...
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Categories:
founds, appreciation, beautiful, blessing, celebration,
Form: Free verse
With All His Love-
...WITH ALL HIS LOVE-
With all His love
With all His love
With all His love
He gives in Jesus name;
All such should live in Jesus name;
And He never stops, He looks beyond our...
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Categories:
founds, analogy, appreciation, devotion, encouraging,
Form: Lyric
Poetry Between the Lost and Founds
...Dust of forgotten
versing ancient poetry
between lost and found......
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Categories:
founds, allegory, lost, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Haiku
This Quest, Was It But a Sad Rage Against the Storm
...This Quest, Was It But A Sad Rage Against The Storm
As I wade through this poisonous wilderness- alone
Raging fury contained well within my breast
Seeing earth's darkness, cold- cold as a frozen...
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Categories:
founds, dark, deep, fate, introspection,
Form: Rhyme
G O D
...G O D
God my professor who does not sit on a stool at the head of the class correcting exam papers with their columns of graphite-filled dots with each question being multiple choice and the last ...
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Categories:
founds, christian, devotion, inspiration, jesus,
Form: Prose
Mean Streets
...Newspaper blows along rain-washed streets,
dying echoes of hash tags and tweets
promising hook-ups, flash mobs and meets,
long gone to their bed-sits and urban retreats.
Puddles painted with ne...
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Categories:
founds, city,
Form: Rhyme
Soul Mate
...Soul mate
It's like a honeycomb
Dwellings of sweetness
The honey that soaks my bread
In the eventide of a restful hour
With every words gushing out
Like the sweetest palm wine
Tapped by...
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Categories:
founds, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Sonnet
Burnel Or Brunellus the Ass
...If two heads are better than one
How much better is three.
For the time has come
When Translators cannot agree.
Nigel wrote the words in Latin script
And much time has passed
With many Lear...
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Categories:
founds, animal, political,
Form: Light Verse
In Love
...in love
only words don't to be
hearts need
difficult to walk thorny paths
in love
only feel don't to be
reals are founds
everyone sees when the curtain rising
in love
only two person don...
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Categories:
founds, allegory,
Form: Alliteration
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