TRAINING TURKEYS
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Deborah’s Grandfather was fond of saying, other than at Thanksgiving, turkeys had no worth
for he believed that turkeys were the stupidest creatures on Earth.
He told stories of turkeys innocen...
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Categories:
ignorantly, animal,
Form: Rhyme
Lone Petal
...The petal of a rose once fell
then drifted slowly through the trees.
Upon the wind it tumbled long
until it drifted up to me.
At first, I saw no value there
in just one petal all alone.
But ...
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Categories:
ignorantly, appreciation,
Form: Rhyme
Dreaming Eyes
...We never know of mistakes -
Or the lie that we are living.
We lose our sense of awareness,
Tell ourselves we are believing.
But those weights grow heavy -
As we ignorantly trudge through skies...
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Categories:
ignorantly, break up, heartbreak, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Conversations at the Areopagus
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(The Apostle Paul is waiting at Athens, and some of the Epicureans and Stoics engaged him in conversation.)
Agon, Aidos, Apate, Bia, Corus and Dysnomia (talking amongst themselves) say “What w...
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Categories:
ignorantly, atheist, bible, jesus, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Verse
Love Has Gone and Left Me
...Love has gone and left me
Yet the day continues on
I wake to ruminations
Plaguing me from dusk till dawn.
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My feet now hit the carpet
As I gather...
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Categories:
ignorantly, angst, conflict, emotions,
Form: Rhyme
Sunny’s summer
...I just finished Face Timing with Sunny, one of Lisa and my roommates.
She’s an edgy half-a-laugh, and I can’t wait to see her in person.
Sunny’s a slipa and a seductive gadabout - this poem is abou...
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Categories:
ignorantly, character, confidence, crazy, culture,
Form: Free verse
Lone Petal
...The petal of a rose once fell
then drifted slowly through the trees.
Upon the wind it tumbled long
until it drifted up to me.
At first I saw no value there,
in just one petal all alone.
But...
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Categories:
ignorantly, appreciation, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Life Lessons I Learned Too Late
...Through the veiled shadow of my past, I find,
Lessons unlearned, I was far too disinclined.
The tart whispers of regret, a mournful song,
I realize times in my life where I went wrong.
In th...
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Categories:
ignorantly, angst, destiny, dream, fate,
Form: Rhyme
A Blessed Person
...Blessed is the man to whom the Lord shall not impute sin."Romains 4:8
a blessed person in the eyes of God,
most evil people count the blessing of the Lord
in the physical things th...
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Categories:
ignorantly, inspirational, religious,
Form: Free verse
Vision
...What to say when some billionaires buy big televisions
to watch live teachings of men of visions.
Why astonishing to see a rich person who stole
someone 's vision to be wh...
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Categories:
ignorantly, truth,
Form: Rhyme
Message From a Disabled Vet
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Was sitting in my wheelchair in my den,
My son, playing with trucks on the floor.
The smell of pot roast wafting from the
kitchen door.
I thought I ‘d read a poem from this site
and th...
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Categories:
ignorantly, america, inspirational, loss,
Form: Quatrain
A Murderer, Biblically
...For everyone who hates his brother murders a person, and you know that eternal life cannot abide in anyone who murders a person.
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
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Categories:
ignorantly, encouraging, motivation, religious,
Form: Free verse
Religion and Self Slavary
...Jesus answered ," Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again , but whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a spring of water w...
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Categories:
ignorantly, education, encouraging, inspirational, inspirational
Form: Free verse
Blood of Jesus Christ
...If you eat the body
And drink the blood
Of Jesus Christ ignorantly
You will go astray.
If you eat the body
And drink the blood
Of Jesus Christ wisely
You will live internally.
May 06...
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Categories:
ignorantly, 12th grade, bible, inspirational,
Form: Couplet
Warm Enough
...An icy breeze runs briskly through my branches.
Branches once adorned with luscious green needles
Now charcoal black and broken, growth given no chances.
I shudder and reminisce when my branches s...
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Categories:
ignorantly, abuse, betrayal, pain, power,
Form: Free verse
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