Sharing Good News
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Come see the Christ, "We have found the Messiah!”
An anxious Andrew hasted with the broadcast -
sharing the good news, long-awaited by Jews.
Would that we Christians today should supply a
messa...
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Categories:
hasted, 11th grade, encouraging, hope,
Form: Rhyme
A Way In the Manger
...Out of a manger, one named Emmanuel
for three years sought to show His kinsmen the Way.
The Light of the World, His lips hasted to tell
of sweet forgiveness when men choose to obey.
Away from t...
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Categories:
hasted, 11th grade, christmas, life,
Form: Rhyme
Hometown Visit
...My last visit home was sad, but true
All weekend I waited, just to see you
But the expectations I held, were much too high
Lowest place on the totem pole, there was I
When finally, we met afte...
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Categories:
hasted, absence, hello, home, i
Form: Rhyme
Pedophiliac
...The paedophiliac?
I sat on a park bench beside another old man
we saw a beautiful 17 years old girl walking past
and I said: we can’t get any of them.
The old my smile and said she is my grand...
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Categories:
hasted, allegory, angel, chicago,
Form: Blank verse
An Angel In Hell
...Lucifer;
Ho!,peace here
How by far
Will thou tarry with scare?
There in hell,
Lies temprount.
From beyond he fell,
To this lake-y mount.
By what law did you fell?
By law or by spell?
Thou...
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Categories:
hasted, angel,
Form: Narrative
Globalism
...Globalism
The winter after war was not jubilant
the snow was slushy like the beginning of spring.
A poor street, houses had not been painted
not much food and the ice was reluctant to let
g...
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Categories:
hasted, aubade, beach, best friend,
Form: Blank verse
The Good Cousin
...Mom would always tell me don’t be hasted all ways
Listen remember always to put the third on the end
Of your last name think to my self I have political
Correct name and if I don’t say so so...
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Categories:
hasted, art, love,
Form: Verse
Sleep In the Afternoon
...Sleep in the Afternoon
The world he knew is disappearing,
erased, first the afar blue mountain vanished
then the steppe the horses that galloped
to the stream of cold water and freedom
to d...
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Categories:
hasted, creation, dark, future,
Form: Ballade
Frost
...Fimbul Frost
It was cold in the valley domestic animals were snug in barns even hardy sheep
and goats came indoors. Clear sky and freezing, the moisture in the air turned
into diamond dust flit...
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Categories:
hasted, natural disasters, nature,
Form: Blank verse
Thirsty Cars
...Thirsty Cars
Those steep, tiring hills going home, I had been in town
bought a new kitchen sink, the second one in forty years,
nothing lasts, that’s how traders make their ill-gotte...
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Categories:
hasted, adventure, funny, social, car,
Form: Sonnet
Toppings With Cheese
...Fifteen centuries ago came a little man with a dream of rolling dough,
in this dream he subsidized pizza for the whole town to enjoy and throw.
Along came this beautiful angel that told him he n...
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Categories:
hasted, adventuredream, dream,
Form: I do not know?
Sing Nightingale
...Please
sing a song,
sing a hymn,
sing a summer's night.
You
sang it loud,
sang it proud,
bathed in candle light.
A
tainted wretch,
heartless fiend,
yet still a nightingale.
Your
yout...
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Categories:
hasted,
Form: Rhyme
Solomon's Song
...I have found the one
my soul does love
bearing gifts from above;
My darling, my fair one,
Come away, turtle dove,
After whom I run...
I search to this end,
To f...
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Categories:
hasted, devotion, faith, husband, life,
Form: Ballad