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Hoists Poems - Poems about Hoists

Premium MemberTHE ECHO RETURNS NOT

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Silent is the echo as pride shouts
   selfishness causing pouts...
      self-conceit triumphs over jealousy bouts 
         self-glory reigns with discontentment clouts
            self-relian...
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Categories: hoists, character, christian, god, how
Form: Rhyme

The Loves of My Life

...Strangers wander about outside my window glass (gift daydreams to hurry along my time clocked in) 

Roomie erupts into our pod post-trek home (every 4:57pm, I – a dog – wonder at her return)

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© M J
Categories: hoists, conflict, endurance, how i
Form: Free verse



Climate Unchanged

...Wind lashed fronds whip a neck twisting air.
Florida bleeds green.
A large woman in a rainbow muumuu,
a toy poodle pushed tightly into her folds
wades into the storm determined
to bring a hurric...
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Categories: hoists, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberTV show Questions

...On TV the hero lifts a man to his shoulders
Hoists him up and walks eight miles through the woods
I cannot even lift my seventy-two-pound dog to my shoulder
Did the camera man help him get that gu...
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Categories: hoists, humorous,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD FOR ENABLING US TO DO VALIANTLY

...June 23 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 60-65

Key Verse – Psalms 60:12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for he it is that shall tread down our enemies.

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Categories: hoists, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration



Premium MemberPRAISE BE TO GOD WHO HEARS OUR SUPPLICATION

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June 13 Praises to God Bible Meditations Based on Psalms 6-10

Key Verse – Psalms 6:9 The LORD hath heard my supplication; the LORD will receive my prayer.

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Categories: hoists, bible, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Alliteration

Premium MemberQueen Of Sinkholes

...Frazzle dazzled Summer escapades,
a wave of madness hoists a red flag;
Fuchsia allows my brain to defrag,
sunsets melt hues into softer shades;

I can now turn down those hot coals
that my emot...
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Categories: hoists, emotions, feelings, inspirational, summer,
Form: Enclosed Rhyme

CIRCLE OF LIFE

...A two edged knife that deluges us 
With both the midlife and afterlife
Like a tempest, 
It sways us to ruination and obscurity 
Then hoists us to reclamation and lucidity
The circle of life!

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Categories: hoists, life,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberIn the vast field of beings, some are stars that cast kindness

...In the vast field of beings, some are stars that cast kindness,
Somehow born with a mirage that drips mercy from within.
They traverse valleys and deserts, spreading, unwavering, their pure essence...
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Categories: hoists, fantasy,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberCadence of Color

...In the chartreuse lawn,
the music of rustling leaves I hear,
singing the song ‘summer is gone’,
I listen the footsteps of autumn clear.

The screen of summer dust drifts away,
satin sky radiate...
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Categories: hoists, autumn, color,
Form: Rhyme

Lillith's Passing

...What is it called?

When thousands of bats
Come pouring out the mouth of a cave
For the black gold of sunset?

Like that
The late autumn leaves tear from their branches
In a spooky warm gale
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Categories: hoists, appreciation, autumn, death, earth,
Form: Free verse

Indian Independence - 75 Years

...Born after freedom; I witnessed 
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over

Years went by: I gre...
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Categories: hoists, beautiful, celebration, devotion, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Indian Independence - 75 Years

...Born after freedom; I witnessed 
The 25th year Independence Day celebration
The Silver Jubilee; the country was underdeveloped,
Yet there was jubilation, happiness all over

Years went by: I gre...
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Categories: hoists, beautiful, celebration, devotion, happiness,
Form: Free verse

Premium MemberHegemony Or Survival: the New World Order

...Disrupting the general flow of the ruby blaze,
As ghosts, there are shadows in the haze.
Air-filled skeletons, bone-filled skull,
Sneaking in the shadows, stained by the dull.

Allud...
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Categories: hoists, adventure, analogy, bereavement, conflict,
Form: Rhyme

The Fog of Night

...As we wade into the fog of the night,
In fear, people reach and grope with blind eye.
May there be on all of our paths bright light.

Hurried from their houses, fleeing in fright,
No farewells s...
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Categories: hoists, dark, feelings, hope, people,
Form: Villanelle

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