Creation Story, From the Tongue Outward
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In the beginning, there was salt.
It hung in the air like unfinished scripture,
gathered in the throat of the sea,
waited for a mouth dumb enough
to mistake thirst for an invitation.
Then...
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Categories:
holy oil, allegory, extended metaphor,
Form: Free verse
Let the New Year Come
...(Dedicated to the Filipino Youth)
Our years of youthful yonder—
carry the mark of strength and beauty.
Like ancient, unwavering mountains,
no force can shake us, no storm can bend us.
Our ye...
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Categories:
holy oil, 7th grade, courage, hero,
Form: Rhyme
Mother Said
...Mother said to carry Dad's little green luggage,
Godzilla my foe, I can do a step not a hundred,
Mother said to put in you--that, it's all bronzed,
Ugh, zip-phew Godzilla you stink your breadth.
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Categories:
holy oil, appreciation, character, growing up,
Form: Free verse
Lampstands
...We in are in a time of darkness,
A season of sorrow and regret.
Like a great fish caught in a current
Rife with unexpected, opposing tides.
All are tossed ever farther
from lives all hoped to ...
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Categories:
holy oil, 12th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Meet My Inventor
...Creator Art Director
Praise be to you in the Highest
My Highness
Answered with Glory
Created our story
Truly no other
May be called our Father
Among the wild
We heard your smile
Within arms ...
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Categories:
holy oil, blessing, cinderella, dream, faith,
Form: Free verse
Thank You
...Another year & another time
To enjoy your sweet place, so fine.
This was so peaceful & needed
God heard us when we pleaded
For quiet & space
To break the pace,
To sleep, pray & admire;
Refuel ...
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Categories:
holy oil, gospel,
Form: Rhyme
Ushered Into the Most Holy Place
...Hear my cry for mercy as I call to you for help,
as I lift my hands toward your Most Holy Place.
—Psalm 28:2 NIV
USHERED INTO THE MOST HOLY PLACE
Morning! Yawn! Stretch!
Ar...
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Categories:
holy oil, prayer, thanksgiving,
Form: Free verse
Dear Mr Corona
...Dear Mr Corona
Allow me remind you how we were
Before you visited us here
I really have to let you know this!
We were happy and never this distressed
Our children sang because we were highly...
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Categories:
holy oil, betrayal, blessing, care, inspiration,
Form: Terza Rima
Amusing Terror
...Rat carrying cheese as holy oil
Lion sitting on a goat as sofa set
Hyena in the pulpit as day’s preacher
Eagle keeping penguins as security
Monkeys playing flutes as jesters
In church stair they...
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Categories:
holy oil, irony, leadership,
Form: Elegiac Lyric
Hanukkah
...Hanukkah
By Gavri Hanita Hazaka Abir Selek 2nd
Charles Gerald Patrick Chard 2nd
The Hanukkah candles remind us of the story,
How one day’s Holy oil stretched into seven days of Gl...
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Categories:
holy oil, jewish,
Form: I do not know?
Children's Toys
...CHILDREN’S TOYS
do dolls have a soul?
glassy-eyed she stares at me
~ hauntingly gothic ~
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shall i play the tape?
played backwards the devil spe...
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Categories:
holy oil, dark,
Form: Haiku
3 Days of Darkness Upon the Earth
...Dear Poetry Soup friends,
I am a born again Christian and follower of Jesus Christ. If you have not taken the time to learn of the love of the Creator, Jesus Christ, it is a good time today to beg...
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Categories:
holy oil, jesus, natural disasters,
Form: Prose Poetry
Rain Returs
...RAIN RETURNS
Rain showering
Offering affluent tribulations
On the feet of barren tree
Blushing and springing life .
Cajoling rain anoint
Holy oil on burnt out soul,
Caressing rain smear
Heavenly b...
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Categories:
holy oil, imagination, rain, love, rain,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Rain Returns
...Rain Returns
Rain showering
Offering affluent tribulations
On the feet of barren tree
Blushing and springing life
Cajoling rain anoint
Holy oil on burnt out soul,
Caressing rain smear
Hea...
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Categories:
holy oil, lost love, rain, love,
Form: Romanticism