WORSE THEN DOGS
...WORSE THAN DOGS
Mi step off di docks, salt burn in mi chest,
Suit sharp-press, hope pin to mi vest.
Windrush blood, calypso fire,
Dreams of gold — meet cold barbed wire.
“Welcome,” dem sneer w...
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Categories:
hold firm, abuse, anger, black love,
Form: Spoken Word
simple truths
...simple truths ~ let us list them out
if heart’s quiescent, mind is still
in staid silence, voids within fill
let not fears and dark desires grout
know this: we are not body-mind
leave imagine...
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Categories:
hold firm, god, spiritual, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Purple dreams in other Realms
..."Once upon a magical evening an enchanted fairy I happened to see
dressed in a fantastical dress with two dappled wings of lace,
she shone like the midnight sun;
I must confess, she looked...
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Categories:
hold firm, dream, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
Hold firm resolve
...Hold firm resolve, to remain still,
gentling thought, word and deed,
that thus by relinquishing will,
we let love take the lead.
Awake dear heart, awake
Be tranquil like a lake
O...
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Categories:
hold firm, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Thought of the day
...though ego cravings continue to bait ~
hold firm; negate not God’s touch intimate...
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Categories:
hold firm, spiritual,
Form: Couplet
A lone pattern in glow and gleam
...Fear not the countless stars that light the sky,
For many naysayers still will deny.
Find them a place where they must stay away,
The clouds will part, your star will shine today.
Each star, a ...
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Categories:
hold firm, dream, encouraging, inspirational, light,
Form: Rhyme
The Wise Oak and the Young Sapling
...In a forest deep where shadows play,
Stood a wise old oak, strong and gray.
His branches stretched wide, a sheltering hand,
While young saplings danced in the sunlit land.
One day a sto...
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Categories:
hold firm, allegory, growth, imagination, nature,
Form: Narrative
A Vine in Winter
...Withered wishes
lick the sap of spring
and loose all they've held,
except all that dared to
winter in a heart
that clings where hope's
tendrils grow tired and
brittle
and still ~ in t...
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Categories:
hold firm, age, youth,
Form: Free verse
Our natural state
..."free from conditioned belief
no agenda on our shelf
vibrant as the light of Self
life flows on all by itself” - Unseeking Seeker
Faith is more than a mere noun,
p...
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Categories:
hold firm, devotion, faith,
Form: Free verse
The fire that now burns my spirit
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Then happy in my own world,
before you proposed your silly love to me.
Like a hot magma landing on a still sea water;
you blow open my brain to take away my t...
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Categories:
hold firm, abuse, addiction, betrayal, drug,
Form: Verse
Beyond Every Frame
...I’m not for every eye to see,
a quiet truth that lives in me.
Steady in heart, grounded and whole,
I guard the light within my soul.
I may not bend to each demand;
my roots hold firm where I s...
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Categories:
hold firm, 9th grade,
Form: Lyric
The crossroads of shadows within my mind, where darkness and light intertwine
...The crossroads of shadows within my mind, where darkness and light intertwine
in an eternal dance, I sit in my own solitude,
feeling nothing but the painful flatness of existence,
consumed by lone...
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Categories:
hold firm, fantasy,
Form: Free verse
PREACHER MAN
...Easter was yesterday, just a few hours ago girls in pink and yellow dresses.
Boys with bow ties that eventually got stuffed into their pockets.
Women with big Easter bonnets and new whimsical dress...
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Categories:
hold firm, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
The Resurrection of Christ and His temptation Ist Corinthians 15:1-2 part one
...Now brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which
you have received. on which you have taken your stand. By this gospel
you are saved, if you hold firm to the word which I...
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Categories:
hold firm, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Prose
Hold Firm Your Immovable Sacred Heart
...Hold Firm Your Immovable Sacred Heart
Your sword that badly broken thrown away
night winds blowing another world apart
seven nuns, heads bowed slightly to pray
but what of my loving heart tha...
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Categories:
hold firm, art, creation, deep, lost
Form: Sonnet
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